Self-gravitating discs with radiative transfer: their role in giant planet formation
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
2009-05-14 v1
Abstract
We present preliminary results on the ability of self-gravitating discs to cool in response to their internal heating. These discs are modelled using a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) code with radiative transfer (Whitehouse, Bate & Monaghan 2005) and we investigate the ability of these discs to maintain a state of thermal equilibrium with their boundaries as an indication of their likelihood to fragment.
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@article{arxiv.0905.2122,
title = {Self-gravitating discs with radiative transfer: their role in giant planet formation},
author = {Farzana Meru and Matthew R. Bate},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.2122},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
To be published in American Institute of Physics; Conference proceedings - Exoplanets and Disks: Their Formation and Diversity; 2 pages, 2 figures