Over the past three decades, we have witnessed one of the great revolutions in our understanding of the cosmos - the dawn of the Exoplanet Era. Where once we knew of just one planetary system (the Solar system), we now know of thousands, with new systems being announced on a weekly basis. Of the thousands of planetary systems we have found to date, however, there is only one that we can study up-close and personal - the Solar system. In this review, we describe our current understanding of the Solar system for the exoplanetary science community - with a focus on the processes thought to have shaped the system we see today. In section one, we introduce the Solar system as a single well studied example of the many planetary systems now observed. In section two, we describe the Solar system's small body populations as we know them today - from the two hundred and five known planetary satellites to the various populations of small bodies that serve as a reminder of the system's formation and early evolution. In section three, we consider our current knowledge of the Solar system's planets, as physical bodies. In section four, we discuss the research that has been carried out into the Solar system's formation and evolution, with a focus on the information gleaned as a result of detailed studies of the system's small body populations. In section five, we discuss our current knowledge of planetary systems beyond our own - both in terms of the planets they host, and in terms of the debris that we observe orbiting their host stars. As we learn ever more about the diversity and ubiquity of other planetary systems, our Solar system will remain the key touchstone that facilitates our understanding and modelling of those newly found systems, and we finish section five with a discussion of the future surveys that will further expand that knowledge.

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用于系外行星研究的太阳系物理学

在过去的三年里，我们目睹了我们对宇宙理解的一场伟大革命——系外行星时代的到来。曾经我们只知道一个行星系统（太阳系），现在我们知道数千个，每周都会公布新的系统。然而，在迄今为止我们发现的数千个行星系统中，只有一个我们可以近距离和个人地研究——太阳系。在这篇评论中，我们描述了我们目前对系外行星科学界对太阳系的理解——重点是被认为塑造了我们今天看到的系统的过程。在第一节中，我们将太阳系作为现在观察到的许多行星系统的一个经过充分研究的例子进行介绍。在第二节中，我们描述了太阳系' 我们今天所知道的小天体群体——从 205 颗已知的行星卫星到各种小天体群体，它们提醒我们系统的形成和早期进化。在第三节中，我们将我们目前对太阳系行星的了解视为物理天体。在第四节中，我们讨论了对太阳系形成和演化进行的研究，重点是对系统小群体进行详细研究后收集到的信息。在第五部分，我们讨论了我们目前对超出我们自己的行星系统的了解——包括它们所承载的行星，以及我们观察到的围绕它们的主恒星运行的碎片。随着我们对其他行星系统的多样性和普遍性了解得越来越多，