Jesse Weder

My name is Jesse Weder and I am a research assistant at the University of Bern, working on planet formation theory.

Things I am interested in

• Protoplanetary disc
• Planet formation
• Coding
• Writing
• Reading
• Photography

Current Projects

Planetary migration in MHD wind-driven discs

Recently, MHD wind-driven disc evolution has proven to be a viable alternative to the classical viscous disc evolution paradigm. In an attempt moving towards planetary population syntheses in MHD wind-driven discs, we ran single embryo planetary population syntheses using updated 1D migration prescriptions.
Check out the paper here.

Dynamical corotation torque - going from 2D to 1D

The conservation of vortensity along streamlines towards low viscosity results in a dynamical component of the corotation torque. In order to assess the importance of this torque in planetary population syntheses, we worked out a simple prescription for use in 1D planet formation models.
Check out the paper here .

Disc population syntheses in high FUV environment

The presence of OB stars can induce a strong photoevaporative wind. We investigated the implications of such a wind on observables such as disc lifetime and stellar accretion rates for the viscous and MHD wind-driven disc evolution paradigm.
Check out the paper here.

Publications

A complete list of my publications can be found on this ADS Library.

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