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    A circumplanetary disk (or circumplanetary disc, short CPD) is a torus, pancake or ring-shaped accumulation of matter composed of gas, dust, planetesimals...
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    J1407b (category Circumstellar disks)
    brown dwarf, with a large circumplanetary disk or ring system. It was first detected by automated telescopes in 2007 when its disk eclipsed the star V1400...
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    image of the circumplanetary disk around PDS 70 c separated from the protoplanetary disk was finally confirming the circumplanetary disk and was published...
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  • satellite systems around giant planets such as the rings of Saturn, or circumplanetary disks. But they can also be galactic rings and circumstellar discs, belts...
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    law. This radius estimate might have been affected by the planet's circumplanetary disk, as the spectrum not necessarily corresponds to a planet photosphere...
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    1 AU. Accretion disk Asteroid belt Circumplanetary disk – Accumulation of matter around a planet Exoasteroid belt Protoplanetary disk Wang, Z.; Chakrabarty...
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    smaller, circumplanetary analogs of the protoplanetary disks. The formation of planets and moons in geometrically thin, gas- and dust-rich disks is the...
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    the disk. Excretion disks are formed when stars merge. Accretion Astrophysical jet Blandford–Znajek process Circumstellar disc Circumplanetary disk Dynamo...
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    Nebular hypothesis (category Circumstellar disks)
    protoplanetary disk. During the accretion of gas via streams, a giant planet can be surrounded by a circumplanetary disk. This circumplanetary disk also carries...
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    (moons), although such systems may also consist of bodies such as circumplanetary disks, ring systems, moonlets, minor-planet moons and artificial satellites...
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    protostellar jets, and inclined orbits of circumplanetary objects (as seen in the eclipsing binary TY CrA). For disks orbiting a low secondary-to-primary mass...
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    planet formation observationally. The flux from HD 100546 b and its circumplanetary disk (CPD) are superimposed, leaving its properties such the radius and...
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    Chronology of the universe – History and future of the universe Circumplanetary disk – Accumulation of matter around a planet Cosmology – Scientific study...
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    into interstellar space. Following the dissipation of the protoplanetary disk, the Nice model proposes that gravitational encounters between planetisimals...
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    in the literature on roundness are italicized in the table below. Circumplanetary disk – Accumulation of matter around a planet Co-orbital moon – Configuration...
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    spectroscopy – Measurement of electromagnetic radiation for astronomy Circumplanetary disk – Accumulation of matter around a planet Exoasteroid – Asteroids...
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    nebula to create a young protostar orbited by a protoplanetary disk. Planets grow in this disk by the gradual accumulation of material driven by gravity,...
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  • systems around giant planets, as with the Rings of Saturn. See also circumplanetary disk. Roche limit The distance from an astronomical object at which the...
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    is now known as J1407b, a substellar object surrounded by a dusty circumplanetary disk about 90 million kilometers (56 million miles) in radius. V1400 Centauri's...
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    believed to have formed from a circumplanetary disk, a ring of gravitated gas and solid debris analogous to a protoplanetary disk. They may be the remnants...
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    out of a nebula to create a young protostar orbited by a protoplanetary disk. There are eight planets within the Solar System; planets outside of the...
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    aligned with the giant planet's equator because these formed in circumplanetary disks. Planets close to their stars on circular orbits will tend to despin...
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    Dinkinesh – an asteroid with a contact binary satellite Binary asteroid Circumplanetary disk – Accumulation of matter around a planet Minor-planet moon Moons...
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    having a protoplanetary disk, is still accreting material, being surrounded by a circumsubstellar disk (possibly a circumplanetary disk, depending on its formation...
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    Follow-up observations found the supposed ring system could instead be a circumplanetary disk. There is strong evidence of a ring system around HIP 41378 f, given...
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    "Sustained Accretion on Gas Giants Surrounded by Low-Turbulence Circumplanetary Disks". American Astronomical Society, DPS Meeting #47. id.418.06: 418...
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    History Star formation Accretion Accretion disk Excretion Capture theory Capture of Triton Circumplanetary disk Circumstellar disc Circumstellar envelope...
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    believed to have formed from a circumplanetary disk, a ring of accreting gas and solid debris analogous to a protoplanetary disk. They may be the remnants...
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    torn apart into a ring before reaccreting and migrating outwards. Circumplanetary disk Comet nucleus List of slow rotators (minor planets) Data source,...
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    Disrupted planet (category Circumstellar disks)
    eventually surround the parent star in the form of a circumstellar disk or debris disk. As a consequence, the orbiting debris field may be an "uneven ring...
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