Title:

Early evolution of extrasolar planetary systems



Phil Armitage
JILA & APS
University of Colorado



Abstract:

The surprising diversity of known extrasolar
planetary systems provides circumstantial evidence for
the importance of evolutionary processes - migration,
gravitational scattering, and eccentricity excitation -
that were weak or absent in the early history of the
Solar System. I will begin by summarizing some of the
open theoretical questions raised by these processes,
before discussing first how the statistical properties
of extrasolar planetary systems can be used to constrain
posisble migration theories, and second, some of the
implications of giant planet evolution for the formation
and survival of terrestrial planets.