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    A circumplanetary disk (or circumplanetary disc, short CPD) is a torus, pancake or ring-shaped accumulation of matter composed of gas, dust, planetesimals...
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    a moon-forming circumplanetary disk. The disk was detected around PDS 70 c, with a potential disk observed around PDS 70 b. The disk was confirmed by...
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  • resonance effects of an external moon(s). Shepherd moon Circumplanetary disk Circumstellar disc Accretion disk Lists of astronomical objects NASA (12 March 2019)...
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    the disk. Excretion disks are formed when stars merge. Accretion Astrophysical jet Blandford–Znajek process Circumstellar disc Circumplanetary disk Dynamo...
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    smaller, circumplanetary analogs of the protoplanetary disks. The formation of planets and moons in geometrically thin, gas- and dust-rich disks is the...
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    planet formation observationally. The flux from HD 100546 b and its circumplanetary disk (CPD) are superimposed, leaving its properties such the radius and...
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    circumstellar discs, precession of protostellar jets, and inclined orbits of circumplanetary objects (as seen in the eclipsing binary TY CrA). For discs orbiting...
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    (moons), although such systems may also consist of bodies such as circumplanetary disks, ring systems, moonlets, minor-planet moons and artificial satellites...
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    out of a nebula to create a young protostar orbited by a protoplanetary disk. There are eight planets within the Solar System; planets outside of the...
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    aligned with the giant planet's equator because these formed in circumplanetary disks. Planets close to their stars on circular orbits will tend to despin...
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