太阳系行星系统的形成和演化

本文评述了星云和星子假说、太阳星云的崩塌、星盘的形成和演化、颗粒生长、星子增生、类地行星和类木行星的形成、行星迁移,以及太阳和行星的演化。     

碰撞作用与类地行星起源探讨

类地行星挥发性元素普遍亏损很可能是由于太阳星云早期剧烈的太阳活动引起的。当气体、尘粒、挥发性元素和水被驱赶出内太阳系时，只有米级到公里级的物质保存下来并堆积成星子，最终吸积星子形成类地行星。我们认为类地行星的初始物质主要是已分异的星子和一些未分异的球粒陨石质星子或不同类型的陨石母体，最靠近太阳形成的星子具有最低的ＦｅＯ／（ＦｅＯ＋ＭｇＯ）值，水星是在靠近太阳的高度还原条件下吸积成分类似ＥＨ球粒陨石的星子形成的。地球的初始物质为分异的铁陨石及Ｈ群球粒陨石。随着距太阳距离增大及温度降低，陨石形成的部位大致为：ＥＨ、ＥＬ－ＩＡＢ－ＳＮＣ（辉玻无球粒陨石、辉橄无球粒陨石、纯橄无球粒陨石）－Ｅｕｃ（钙长辉长无球粒陨石）－Ｈ、Ｌ、ＬＬ－ＣＶ、ＣＭ、ＣＯ－Ｃｌ－彗星。物体之间、星子之间及行星与星子之间的碰撞对太阳系的形成和演化起着重要的作用。     

行星迁移述评

轨道靠近恒星的太阳系外大行星的发现导致对星盘与行星相互作用和行星迁移形式的广泛研究。行星迁移发生在行星与气体或星子的星盘之间进行潮汐相互作用时,这造成行星轨道参数,特别是半主轴的变更。早期研究建立了I型和II型行星迁移方式,分别对应于小质量行星和形成能隙的大质量行星。另外,讨论了新的能够快速迁移的III型迁移方式,它可以使大质量星盘中的行星直接向内或向外迁移。     

比较行星地质学的主要科学问题

根据太阳系探测的成果,对比分析类地行星大气层与水体的形成与演化过程、类地行星地形地貌与地质构造的共性与特性、类地行星的岩石类型比较、类地行星的热历史与内部结构的比较,行星的质量大小和行星与太阳的距离的相互耦合,制约了行星的形成和演化的复杂过程.     

与成磷作用有关的前寒武纪地球冰环模式

<正> 前不久,R.P.谢尔登提出了一个新的成磷假说——冰环模式。现据录音简单介绍一下该假说的梗概。冰环按现代流行观点,太阳系原为一旋涡式物质团。以后发生分离,大旋涡形成太阳,小旋涡形成行星,组成太阳系。就构成太阳系诸行星的物质密度而论,靠近太阳的都是密度较大的石质行星,远离太阳的多为密度较小的气体性质的行星(冥王星除外)。据观测,从木星往外,除冥王星外都有一个“环带”,其中土星的环带最大。这     

月球晚期重轰击和Nice模式

晚期重轰击(一般又称为月球灾难,简称LHB)指的是距今约3.8~4.1 Ga时段月球受到大量陨石的轰击,于月面上形成的大量撞击坑,并推论地球、水星、金星和火星也经历了这样一次重轰击。Nice模式是关于太阳系动力学演化的一种设想:在初始原行星气体星盘消散之后很久,大行星从最初紧凑的组构迁移到目前的位置。这个行星迁移理论用来解释包括内太阳系的晚期重轰击,以及Oort云、Kuiper带、海王星和木星Trojans行星等形成的历史事件。     

太阳系探测的进展与比较行星学的主要科学问题

回顾了太阳系的探测历程,综合分析了太阳系探测的发展趋势。未来的太阳系探测将以月球与火星探测为主线,适度开展太阳系其他行星及其卫星、小行星和彗星的考察性探测。21世纪将是全面探测太阳系并为人类社会长期可持续发展服务的新时代。随着太阳系探测的进展,通过系统比较地球与类地行星的大气层与水体的形成演化过程、地形地貌与地质构造特征、岩石类型、热历史与内部结构等方面的共性与特性研究,表明行星的质量大小和行星与太阳的距离的相互耦合,制约了行星的形成和演化的复杂过程。比较行星学已成为指导太阳系探测的科学理论体系。     

堆积的地球及其初始不均一性

从天体化学和地球科学的研究成果出发，认为地球是在一较窄的类地行星区域内，主要由硅酸盐质星子随机吸积而成。在星子形成之前，初始太阳星云已经历了挥发性元素的强烈亏损事件，同时也已发生了硫化物、金属和硅酸盐成分之间的分馏作用，随着行星的形成，行星内部的分馏作用将会持续进行。在形成地球的独立吸积区内，混合作用不彻底，星子群之间的化学成分不均一，因此，构成地球的将是一套具有各自独立化学成分组成的星子群，而不同于地球上现已发现的任何陨石或者它们的组合。     

制约类地行星大气层和水体发育的主要因素

根据行星探测的资料,综合分析了水星、金星、地球(包括月球)、火星的大气层和水体的发育特征,对比了金星、火星的大气层与水体同地球的差异。类地行星质量小、体积小、密度大、旋转慢、卫星少甚至没有、挥发性元素较类木行星少、距离太阳较近,早期残留的原始大气层已经被早期太阳在金牛变星阶段的强烈太阳风所驱赶,加上巨大而频繁的撞击作用,使原始大气层被驱赶殆尽。现在的大气层是次生的,是由行星内部的去气作用形成的。类地行星的大气层、水体的发育和表生作用的特征与行星的质量大小(表征行星内部能量的大小和构造活动的强烈及持续时间)及行星与太阳的距离等因素有关。在类地行星中,地球和金星质量最大,逃逸速度最大,可将更多的气体“束缚”在它们表面,因此它们的大气有着复杂的组成和较大的密度。火星质量较小,逃逸速度不到地球的一半,在漫长的演化历史中,大气逐渐逸散进入太空,大气密度变得很稀薄。水星质量更小,而且最靠近太阳,不仅太阳风的驱赶作用强烈,而且表面温度高,气体分子的热运动更加剧烈,加剧了大气的逸散,所以水星的大气层极为稀薄,并且主要为太阳风成分。月球质量最小,几乎没有大气层,更没有水体的发育。行星的热演化历史对大气层和水体发育具有重要的制     

行星地球不均一成因和演化的理论框架初探

地球是太阳系的一部分 ,研究地球的成因和演化必须要与太阳系的形成结合起来。文章在综合最新的地球化学、地球物理和天体化学研究资料的基础上 ,对地球的不均一成因进行了理论上的推导。对星子学说、地球的多阶段堆积模型和地球化学不均一性以及它们的相互关系进行了论述 ,从行星演化的角度阐述地球不均一成因的理论框架。根据行星起源的星子学说 ,以及天体化学、地球化学和深部地质地球化学和地球物理资料的多重限制 ,行星地球的增生经历了两个主要阶段 ,即原地球的形成阶段和晚期星子堆积形成上地幔镶饰层阶段。早前寒武纪岩石的铅、钕、氧同位素的研究表明 ,在地球形成的初期就存在化学不均一性 ,而这种不均一性很可能代表初始堆积星子化学组成的差异     

Sizes of Stellar Subsystems of Disk Galaxies and the Metallicities of Red Giants

Stellar photometry of 53 low-mass spiral and irregular galaxies has been carried out using archival frames obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope. Young and old stars (blue supergiants and red giants) are distinguished on the resulting Hertzsprung–Russell diagrams, and the spatial sizes of the subsystems formed by these stars are determined. A correlation is found between the metallicities of red giants and the difference between the linear sizes of stellar systems of different ages. This dependence can be explained if the sizes of stellar subsystems expand over the lifetimes of galaxies, as well as the influence of the relationship between the mass of a galaxy and the metallicity of its stars.     

The relationship between chondri and matrix of chondrite as indicator of the origin and layering of planets of the solar system

The two-stage evolution of chondrite parent-planets, viz., protoplanet evolution (within giant planets, which are parent planets to chondrite planets) and the planet stage proper (after the loss of giant fluid envelopes by the parent planets) determines the petrological specific features of ordinary chondrites. Relics of protoplanet evolution include splitting of magma into chondri and a diamondiferous matrix fixed in chondrite structure. Chondrites of volcanic (I), subvolcanic (II), and plutonic (III) facies consolidate during the proper planetary stage of evolution of their parent planets. Chondri in chondrites crystallize before the more fluid kamacite matrix, which replaces the chondri and affects a fluid impact upon them. Replacement of chondri with olivine and replacement of matrix kamacite with olivine transforms the matrix into a secondary and substantially olivine-rich substance, which strongly complicates the chondri-matrix relationship, shading its primary magmatic nature.     

Ionized gas in the circumgalactic vicinity of the M81 galaxy group

The dynamics of the dust and gas in the tidal region of the M81 galaxy group have been analyzed, and the drift of the dust relative to the gas has been estimated, including the drift due to the action of radiation pressure from stars in M81. It is concluded that a large fraction of the gas in the tidal region is in the form of ionized hydrogen HII that shields the observedHI gas from the extragalactic Lyman continuum: the observed atomic gas could be only 10% of the total mass of gas. Only then it is possible to satisfactorily explain the excess dust abundance, which exceeds the Galactic value by a factor of six. By analogy, extended HI disks in galaxies with sizes appreciably larger than the stellar disks could be surrounded by HII envelopes with a comparable or greater mass. Such disks could play an important role in supporting prolonged star formation in galaxies with extended HI disks. Associated observational manifestations are discussed. Such HII envelopes outside HI disks could be detectable in absorption in Ly α and lines of ions of heavy elements.     

The formation and evolution of the most massive stars

We consider the formation of massive stars under the assumption that a young star accretes material from the protostellar cloud through its accretion disk while losing gas in the polar directions via its stellar wind. The mass of the star reaches its maximum when the intensity of the gradually strengthening stellar wind of the young star becomes equal to the accretion rate. We show that the maximum mass of the forming stars increases with the temperature of gas in the protostellar cloud T ₀, since the rate at which the protostellar matter is accreted increases with T ₀. Numerical modeling indicates that the maximum mass of the forming stars increases to ～900 M _⊙ for T ₀ ～ 300 K. Such high temperatures of the protostellar gas can be reached either in dense star-formation regions or in the vicinity of bright active galactic nuclei. It is also shown that, the lower the abundance of heavy elements in the initial stellar material Z, the larger the maximum mass of the star, since the mass-loss rate due to the stellar wind decreases with decreasing Z. This suggests that supermassive stars with masses up to 10⁶ M _⊙ could be formed at early stages in the evolution of the Universe, in young galaxies that are almost devoid of heavy elements. Under the current conditions, for T ₀ = (30–100) K, the maximum mass of a star can reach ～100M _⊙, as is confirmed by observations. Another opportunity for the most massive stars to increase their masses emerges in connection with the formation and early stages of evolution of the most massive close binary systems: the most massive stars can be produced either by coalescence of the binary components or via mass transfer in such systems.     

Chemical abundance analysis for the atmospheres of red giants in the Hercules moving group

The results of a comparative analysis of the kinematics, ages, and elemental abundances for 17 red giants in the Hercules moving group are presented. Model atmospheres are used to determine the parameters of the stellar atmospheres and the abundances of about 20 elements. The masses and ages of the stars are estimated, and the components of their Galactic velocities and the elements of their Galactic orbits are calculated. Our analysis demonstrates that the Hercules stream is a heterogeneous group of objects from the thin and thick disks.     

Genetic relations between meteorites and terrestrial and lunar rocks

According to their genesis, meteorites are classified into heliocentric (which originate from the asteroid belt) and planetocentric (which are fragments of the satellites of giant planets, including the Proto-Earth). Heliocentric meteorites (chondrites and primitive meteorites genetically related to them) used in this study as a characteristic of initial phases of the origin of the terrestrial planets. Synthesis of information on planetocentric meteorites (achondrites and iron meteorites) provides the basis for a model for the genesis of the satellites of giant planets and the Moon. The origin and primary layering of the Earth was initially analogously to that of planets of the HH chondritic type, as follows from similarities between the Earth’s primary crust and mantle and the chondrules of Fe-richest chondrites. The development of the Earth’s mantle and crust precluded its explosive breakup during the transition from its protoplanetary to planetary evolutionary stage, whereas chondritic planets underwent explosive breakup into asteroids. Lunar silicate rocks are poorer in Fe than achondrites, and this is explained in the model for the genesis of the Moon by the separation of a small metallic core, which sometime (at 3–4 Ga) induced the planet’s magnetic field. Iron from this core was involved into the generation of lunar depressions (lunar maria) filled with Fe- and Ti-rich rocks. In contrast to the parent planets of achondrites, the Moon has a olivine mantle, and this fact predetermined the isotopically heavier oxygen isotopic composition of lunar rocks. This effect also predetermined the specifics of the Earth’s rocks, whose oxygen became systematically isotopically heavier from the Precambrian to Paleozoic and Mesozoic in the course of olivinization of the peridotite mantle, a processes that formed the so-called roots of continents.     

The evolutionary status of ultraluminous X-ray sources

We analyze models for quasi-stationary, ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) with luminosities 10³⁸–10⁴⁰ erg/s exceeding the Eddington limit for a ～1.4M_⊙ neutron star. With the exception of relatively rare stationary ULXs that are associated with supernova remnants or background quasars, most ULXs are close binary systems containing a massive stellar black hole (BH) that accretes matter donated by a stellar companion. To explain the observed luminosities of ～10⁴⁰ erg/s, the mass of the BH must be ～40M_⊙ if the accreted matter is helium and ～60M_⊙ if the accreted matter has the solar chemical composition. We consider donors in the form of main-sequence stars, red giants, red supergiants, degenerate helium dwarfs, heavy disks that are the remnants of disrupted degenerate dwarfs, helium nondegenerate stars, and Wolf-Rayet stars. The most common ULXs in galaxies with active star formation are BHs with Roche-lobe-filling main-sequence companions with masses ～7M_⊙ or close Wolf-Rayet companions, which support the required mass-exchange rate via their strong stellar winds. The most probable candidate ULXs in old galaxies are BHs surrounded by massive disks and close binaries containing a BH and degenerate helium-dwarf, red-giant, or red-supergiant donor.     

Rotational mass loss by Be stars

We have carried out a numerical study of rotational mass loss by rapidly rotating Be stars assuming preservation of rigid-body rotation during their main-sequence evolution. Evolutionary models are computed for stars with solar chemical composition and initial masses of 3, 10 and M_⊙. As a result of their rapid initial rotation, these stars can lose one to four percent of their initial mass during the main-sequence stage. The amount of mass lost increases with the initial mass of the star. The matter lost by Be stars can form gas-dust disks with masses comparable to the masses of planets, which, in principle, makes possible the formation of planetary systems around such stars.     

Stellar structure of irregular galaxies: Edge-on galaxies

Stellar photometry obtained using the Hubble Space Telescope is used to study the distributions of the number densities of stars of various ages in 12 irregular and dwarf spiral galaxies viewed edge-on. Two subsystems can be distinguished in all the galaxies: a thin disk comprised of young stars and a thick disk containing a large fraction of old stars (primarily red giants) in the system. Variations of the stellar number density in the thin and thick disks in the Z direction perpendicular to the plane of the galaxy follow an exponential law. The size of the thin disk corresponds to the visible size of the galaxy at the μ = 25 mag/arcsec² isophote, while the thick disk is a factor of two to three larger. In addition to a thick disk, the massive irregular galaxy M82 also has a more extended stellar halo that is flattened at the galactic poles. The results of our previous study of 12 face-on galaxies are used together with the new results presented here to construct an empirical model for the stellar structure of irregular galaxies. Original Russian Text ? N.A. Tikhonov, 2006, published in Astronomicheskiĭ Zhurnal, 2006, Vol. 83, No. 7, pp. 579–588.