Analyzing Sun-Like Stars That Eat Earth-Like Planets
Monday, May 19, 2014 - 19:30
in Astronomy & Space
Vanderbilt astronomers have developed a model that estimates the effect that ingesting large amounts of the rocky material from which 'terrestrial' planets like Earth, Mars and Venus are made has on a star's chemical composition and has used the model to analyze a pair of twin stars which both have their own planets.