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Project 5: Modeling early Solar System dynamics
Brief project summary: This project will use clues from the geologic record - both on Earth and on other Solar System bodies - to improve the reconstruction of the key evolutionary events that brought the Solar System to its current, stable, long-term structure, whose architecture is unusual when compared to the currently known galactic planetary census.
*Watch the recording of Project 5 during our Virtual Open House https://bit.ly/OpenHouseVideos1
Project description: We seek to clarify the Solar System’s dramatic early history, and in doing so, we hope to provide the key anchor -- the initial conditions -- that will inform the parallel investigations of the consortium. Our project has several specific goals. First we will implement and explore a new computational approach that will permit us to integrate a very wide range of plausible initial Solar System configurations forward through time. By retaining only models that satisfy known astrostratigraphic constraints, we will better pin down both the early Solar System’s timeline and its configuration. Second, we will explore mass transport through the Solar System over its history. Earth’s Moon preserves a record of the Solar System’s mass flows that point to early conditions for the planetary orbits, and early conditions on the planets themselves (particularly Earth and Venus). Third, we will use the stratigraphic record to assess and constrain the passage of interstellar objects through the Solar System over time.
Principal Investigators:
Dr. Greg Laughlin, Yale University
Dr. Malena Rice, Yale University
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Gregory Laughlin, Yale University.
To learn more about Dr. Laughlin:
Go to "Our team" on this website.
Visit www.oklo.org
Top core values in Dr. Laughlin's team:
"Creativity and out-of-the-box thinking. Most interesting hypotheses don’t work out! In our view, it’s important to stay optimistic and investigate with an open, unbiased and critical approach."
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Malena Rice, Yale University.
To learn more about Dr. Rice:
Go to "Our team" on this website.
Visit Dr. Rice's website: www.astro.yale.edu/malenarice
Top core values in Dr. Rice's team:
"Humility, scientific integrity, and joy. The process of scientific discovery is rarely linear, and exciting new findings often come from unexpected places. In research and beyond, we place value on growth and open-mindedness. We work together to cultivate new ideas at the intersections of subfields, as a team that, by uplifting and empowering our members, builds a whole greater than the sum of its parts."
About the institution: Yale University has a vibrant, collegial research community, and is a renowned center for studies of both our planet and its cosmic context. Opportunities for collaboration abound both in the Astronomy Department (with its focus on extrasolar planets), as well as in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, where a wide range of work on the Earth system is being carried out.
For questions more information, please email: CycloAstro2021@gmail.com
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