Movies and Graphics

Here are some movies (animated gifs) of my simulations of terrestrial planet growth and water delivery. Each movie shows the orbital semimajor axis vs eccentricity for each object. Red = dry and blue = wet (scale is on the color bar). From left, the movies are: 1. Terrestrial planet growth in a situation similar to the Solar System, with a Jupiter-mass giant planet at 5.5 AU (not shown in movie). 2. The effect of a migrating giant planet on terrestrial planet growth on a 100,000 year timescale (giant planet in black). 3. Terrestrial planet growth during and after giant planet migration. Movies are animated gifs: click to watch movie or right click and "save link as" to save file. If you use these, please reference Raymond, Quinn & Lunine (2006, Icarus, 183, 265-282) for the first movie, and Raymond, Mandell & Sigurdsson (2006, Science, 313, 1413-1416) and Mandell, Raymond & Sigurdsson (2007, ApJ, 660, 823-844) for the second and third movies.



The first three graphics below illustrate the qualitative differences between systems of terrestrial planets that can form (click for larger versions). I used publicly-available images, mostly from NASA, to create them. The fourth image is a series of snapshots from a simulation of terrestrial planet growth (the first movie above) -- snapshot plots of a variety of simulations are contained in my published papers (see my CV).