Title:

Origins of the subplanets of Jupiter and Saturn

Authors:

Ignacio Mosqueira

Abstract:

There is compelling evidence that the regular satellites of Jupiter and Saturn should be viewed in a unified framework and will yield key insights into the formation of the giant planets and into the physics of the accretion of planetary bodies in disks of gas and dust. Indeed, it is likely that these systems of objects will play an essential role in breaking the ambiguity introduced by unconstrained parameter choices in current planet formation models. In order to unlock this potential it will be necessary to define which aspects of this problem are subject to stochastic processes and which are not. We will discuss self-consistent models of satellite formation and discuss their implications for the regular satellites.