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It is often argued that gravitational instability of realistic protoplanetary discs is only possible at distances larger than $\sim 50$ au from the central star, requiring high disc masses and accretion rates, and that therefore disc…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-12 Hans Lee , Sergei Nayakshin , Richard A. Booth

In models of planetary accretion, pebbles form by dust coagulation and rapidly migrate toward the central star. Planetesimals may continuously form from pebbles over the age of the protoplanetary disk by yet uncertain mechanisms. Meanwhile,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-17 Ryuji Morishima

Although it is fairly established that Gravitational Instability (GI) should occur in the early phases of the evolution of a protoplanetary disk, the fate of the clumps resulting from disk fragmentation and their role in planet formation is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-07 Marina Galvagni , Lucio Mayer

Planet formation in the discs around young stars involves the coagulation of sub-micron sized dust grains into much larger grains that may be mixed by turbulence and migrate through the disc. In this paper, we describe how we have combined…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Matthew R. Bate , Mark A. Hutchison , Daniel Elsender

Planet evolution is tightly connected to the dynamics of both distant and close disk material. Hence, an appropriate description of disk-planet interaction requires global and high resolution computations, which we accomplish by applying a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. D'Angelo , W. Kley , Th. Henning

We develop a simple model for computing planetary formation based on the core instability model for the gas accretion and the oligarchic growth regime for the accretion of the solid core. In this model several planets can form…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yamila Miguel , Adrian Brunini

Migration of giant planets remains a complex topic. While significant progress has been made for high-viscosity disks, the migration of planets with large planet-star mass ratios in low-viscosity environments is still not fully understood.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Mariana Sánchez , Sijme-Jan Paardekooper , Nienke van der Marel , Pablo Benítez-Llambay , Gijs D. Mulders

We present the results of hydrodynamical simulations of the orbital evolution of planets undergoing runaway gas accretion in radiative discs. We consider accreting disc models with constant mass flux through the disc, and where radiative…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Arnaud Pierens , Sean Raymond

In this work, we adapt a module for planetary formation within the hydrodynamic code FARGO3D. Planetary formation is modeled by a solid core accretion scenario, with the core growing in oligarchic regime. The initial superficial density of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-18 L A DePaula , T A Michtchenko , P A Sousa-Silva

We examine 141 N-body simulations of terrestrial planet late-stage accretion that use the Grand Tack scenario, coupling the collisional results with a hafnium-tungsten (Hf-W) isotopic evolution model. Accretion in the Grand Tack scenario…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-03 Nicholas G. Zube , Francis Nimmo , Rebecca Fischer , Seth A. Jacobson

Close-in giant planets are thought to have formed in the cold outer regions of planetary systems and migrated inward, passing through the orbital parameter space occupied by the terrestrial planets in our own Solar System. We present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Avi M. Mandell , Sean N. Raymond , Steinn Sigurdsson

Many close-in multiple-planet systems show a peas-in-a-pod trend, where neighbouring planets have similar sizes, masses, and orbital spacing. Others, including the Solar System, have a more diverse size and mass distribution. Classical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-20 Yunpeng Zhao , Soko Matsumura

Many extra-solar planets discovered over the past decade are gas giants in tight orbits around their host stars. Due to the difficulties of forming these `hot Jupiters' in situ, they are generally assumed to have migrated to their present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 R. G. Edgar

Transitional discs are a special type of protoplanetary discs where planet formation is thought to be taking place. These objects feature characteristic inner cavities and/or gaps of a few tens of AUs in the sub-millimitre images of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. de Juan Ovelar , M. Min , C. Dominik , C. Thalmann , P. Pinilla , M. Benisty , T. Birnstiel

Spatial distribution and growth of dust in a clumpy protoplanetary disk subject to vigorous gravitational instability and fragmentation is studied numerically with sub-au resolution using the FEOSAD code. Hydrodynamics equations describing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Eduard I. Vorobyov , Vardan G. Elbakyan

Migration commonly occurs during the epoch of planet formation. For emerging gas giant planets, it proceeds concurrently with their growth through the accretion of gas from their natal protoplanetary disks. Similar migration process should…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 Ya-Ping Li , Yi-Xian Chen , Douglas N. C. Lin

We propose a pebble-driven core accretion scenario to explain the formation of giant planets around the late-M dwarfs of $M_{\star}{=}0.1{-}0.2 \ M_{\odot}$. In order to explore the optimal disk conditions for giant planet, we perform…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Mengrui Pan , Beibei Liu , Anders Johansen , Masahiro Ogihara , Su Wang , Jianghui Ji , Sharon X. Wang , Fabo Feng , Ignasi Riba

The full spatial structure and temporal evolution of the accretion flow into the envelopes of growing gas giants in their nascent discs is only accessible in simulations. Such simulations are constrained in their approach of computing the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-18 Matthäus Schulik , Anders Johansen , Bertram Bitsch , Elena Lega

Planets form in the discs of gas and dust that surround young stars. It is not known whether gas giant planets on wide orbits form the same way as Jupiter or by fragmentation of gravitationally unstable discs. Here we show that a giant…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Dimitris Stamatellos

We study the evolution of giant clumps in high-z disc galaxies using AMR cosmological simulations at redshifts z=6-1. Our sample consists of 34 galaxies, of halo masses 10^{11}-10^{12}M_s at z=2, run with and without radiation pressure (RP)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Nir Mandelker , Avishai Dekel , Daniel Ceverino , Colin DeGraf , Yicheng Guo , Joel Primack