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The Solar System's orbital structure is thought to have been sculpted by an episode of dynamical instability among the giant planets. However, the instability trigger and timing have not been clearly established. Hydrodynamical modeling has…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 Beibei Liu , Sean N. Raymond , Seth A. Jacobson

Circumplanetary disks can be found around forming giant planets, regardless of whether core accretion or gravitational instability built the planet. We carried out state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulations of the circumplanetary disks for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 J. Szulágyi , L. Mayer , T. Quinn

We present the results of high resolution SPH simulations of the evolution of gravitationally unstable protoplanetary disks. We report on calculations in which the disk is evolved using a locally isothermal or adiabatic equation of state…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lucio Mayer , James Wadsley , Thomas Quinn , Joachim Stadel

Planetary systems form in gas-dust protoplanetary discs via the growth of solid bodies. In this paper, we show that the most intriguing stage of such growth --- namely, the transformation of 1-10 m boulders into kilometre-sized…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Valeriy N. Snytnikov , Olga P. Stoyanovskaya

In this paper, we calculate simulated scattered light images of a circumstellar disk in which a planet is forming by gravitational instability. The simulated images bear no correlation to the vertically integrated surface density of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hannah Jang-Condell , Alan P. Boss

We investigate the formation of planetesimals via the gravitational instability of solids that have settled to the midplane of a circumstellar disk. Vertical shear between the gas and a subdisk of solids induces turbulent mixing which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrew N. Youdin , Frank H. Shu

The core-accretion and disk instability models have so far been used to explain planetary formation. These models have different conditions, such as planet mass, disk mass, and metallicity for formation of gas giants. The core-accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 T. Matsuo , H. Shibai , T. Ootsubo , M. Tamura

We present models for the formation of terrestrial planets, and the collisional evolution of debris disks, in planetary systems that contain multiple unstable gas giants. We previously showed that the dynamics of the giant planets…

The evolution of gravitationally unstable protoplanetary gaseous disks has been studied with the use of three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations with unprecedented resolution. We have considered disks with initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lucio Mayer , Thomas Quinn , James Wadsley , Joachim Stadel

The formation of gas-giant planets within the lifetime of a protoplanetary disk is challenging especially far from a star. A promising model for the rapid formation of giant-planet cores is pebble accretion in which gas drag during…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 John Chambers

Transitional disks are protoplanetary disks with large and deep central holes in the gas, possibly carved by young planets. Dong, R., & Dawson, R. 2016, ApJ, 825, 7 simulated systems with multiple giant planets that were capable of carving…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Rory Bowens , Andrew Shannon , Rebekah Dawson , Jiayin Dong

Context: Around 30 per cent of the observed exoplanets that orbit M dwarf stars are gas giants that are more massive than Jupiter. These planets are prime candidates for formation by disc instability. Aims: We want to determine the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Anthony Mercer , Dimitris Stamatellos

The ubiquity of planets and diversity of planetary systems reveal planet formation encompass many complex and competing processes. In this series of papers, we develop and upgrade a population synthesis model as a tool to identify the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. Ida , D. N. C. Lin , M. Nagasawa

The dissociation and ionization of hydrogen, during the formation of giant planets via core accretion, reduces the effective adiabatic index $\gamma$ of the gas and could trigger dynamical instability. We generalize the analysis of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Suman Kumar Kundu , Eric R. Coughlin , Andrew N. Youdin , Philip J. Armitage

Giant planet formation in the core accretion (CA) paradigm is predicated by the formation of a core, assembled by the coagulation of grains and later by planetesimals within a protoplanetary disc. In contrast, in the disc instability…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Sergei Nayakshin , Ravit Helled , Aaron C. Boley

Gravitational instability is one of considerable mechanisms to explain the formation of giant planets. We study the gravitational stability for the protoplanetary disks around a protostar. The temperature and Toomre's Q-value are calculated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-18 Shigeo S. Kimura , Toru Tsuribe

The instability in protoplanetary disks due to gas-dust friction and self-gravity of gas and dust is investigated by linear analysis. In the case where the dust to gas ratio is enhanced and turbulence is week, the instability grows, even in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Sanemichi Z. Takahashi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Cool weakly ionized gaseous rotating disk, are considered by many models as the origin of the evolution of protoplanetary clouds. Instabilities against perturbations in such disks play an important role in the theory of the formation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 E. Liverts , M. Mond , A. D. Chernin

A new suite of three dimensional radiative, gravitational hydrodynamical models is used to show that gas giant planets are unlikely to form by the disk instability mechanism at distances of ~100 AU to ~200 AU from young stars. A similar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Alan P. Boss

The observation of massive exoplanets at large separation from their host star, like in the HR 8799 system, challenges theories of planet formation. A possible formation mechanism involves the fragmentation of massive self-gravitating discs…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Clément Baruteau , Farzana Meru , Sijme-Jan Paardekooper