Planet migration
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
A planetary system may undergo significant radial rearrangement during the early part of its lifetime. Planet migration can come about through interaction with the surrounding planetesimal disk and the gas disk--while the latter is still present--as well as through planet-planet interactions. We review the major proposed migration mechanisms in the context of the planet formation process, in our Solar System as well as in others.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0209416,
title = {Planet migration},
author = {Edward W. Thommes and Jack J. Lissauer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0209416},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
14 pages, 1 figure. To appear in proceedings of STSci Astrophysics of Life symposium (May 6-9, 2002)