PROTOPLANETARY DISK FORMATION SOLVER

PHYSICS-FORWARD MODEL · 3 FORMATION PHASES · 30 PARAMETERS · POSITION + MASS · CONSTRAINED TO OBSERVED RANGES
Fitness
χ² = Σ[log(r_pred/r_obs)]²
Predicted vs Observed
PlanetActualPred.Err%
Formation Zones
Physics Summary
SPICE-RACS Connection
Galactic B at solar radius: ~6 μG
Disk |RM| at solar l: ~121 rad/m²
Best-fit galactic n: ≈ 1.0
The ambient galactic field set the initial conditions of the molecular cloud that collapsed to form the solar system — determining angular momentum budget and disk mass via magnetic braking.
Protoplanetary Disk Formation Solver · Lewis Formation Theory Forward Model · 2026
Analysis by Claude (Anthropic) in collaboration with Joseph Lewis
Disk physics: MMSN (Hayashi 1981) · Wardle 2007 · Bai 2011 · Lesur 2021 · Ohashi+ 2025