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A model of planetary formation in a binary system with a small relative mass of primary is computed on the assumption of a mass transfer from the less massive component to the more massive one with no mass and angular momentum carried away from the system under consideration. At the last stage of mass transfer the condensed Moon-like objects (planetoids) are ejected through the inner Lagrange point of the primary Roche lobe with the outflow of gaseous matter.
The whole system is considered in the plane of binary star rotation. Newtonian equations of motion are integrated with the initial conditions for the planetoids referred to as the coordinates and velocity of the inner Lagrangian point at the moments of planetoid ejections, all the pairwise gravitational interactions being included in computations but without a gas-drag. The mass transfer ceases at the primary relative mass 10−3 which corresponds to the present Sun-Jupiter system. The total mass of planetoids approximates that of the terrestrial planets. Those are formed through coagulation of the planetoids with the effective radius of capture cross-section as an input parameter in the computer simulation. When the minimum separation between the pair of bodies becomes less than this radius they coalesce into a single body with their masses and momenta summed. If the effective radius value is under a certain limit the computer simulation yields the planetary system like that of terrestrial planets of the present Sun system.
Numerical computations reveal the division of the planetoids into 4 groups along their distances from the Sun. Further, each group forms a single planet or a planet and a less massive body at the nearest orbits. The parameters of simulated planet orbits are close to the present ones and the interplanetary spacings are in accord with the Titius-Bode law.
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Djakov, B.B., Reznikov, B.I. Computer simulation of planet formation in a binary star system: Terrestrial planets. The Moon and the Planets 23, 429–443 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00897588
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