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The occurrence rate of cold Jupiters was found to depend on stellar mass. The formation environment in the protoplanetary disks regulates core formation and the subsequent gas accretion. In this study, we simulate giant planet formation via…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Sho Shibata , Ravit Helled

Doppler surveys have shown that more massive stars have significantly higher frequencies of giant planets inside $\sim$ 3 AU than lower mass stars, consistent with giant planet formation by core accretion. Direct imaging searches have begun…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Alan P. Boss

We use a semi-analytic circumstellar disk model that considers movement of the snow line through evolution of accretion and the central star to investigate how gas giant frequency changes with stellar mass. The snow line distance changes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Grant M. Kennedy , Scott J. Kenyon

The formation of planets depends on the underlying protoplanetary disc structure, which influences both the accretion and migration rates of embedded planets. The disc itself evolves on time-scales of several Myr during which both…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Bertram Bitsch , Michiel Lambrechts , Anders Johansen

The terrestrial planets are believed to have formed by violent collisions of tens of lunar- to Mars-size protoplanets at time t<200 Myr after the protoplanetary gas disk dispersal (t_0). The solar system giant planets rapidly formed during…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 David Nesvorny , Fernando V. Roig , Rogerio Deienno

Using radiation hydrodynamics simulations, we explore the evolution of circumplanetary disks around wide-orbit proto-gas giants. At large distances from the star (~100 AU), gravitational instability followed by disk fragmentation can form…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Megan Shabram , Aaron Boley

The formation of giant planets is best studied through direct imaging by observing planets both during and after formation. Giant planets are expected to form either by core accretion, which is typically associated with low initial entropy…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 A. L. Wallace , M. J. Ireland , C. Federrath

The apparent dependence of detection frequency of extrasolar planets on the metallicity of their host stars is investigated with Monte Carlo simulations using a deterministic core-accretion planet formation model. According to this model,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 S. Ida , D. N. C. Lin

According to planetary interior models, some giant planets contain large metal masses with large metal-mass fractions. HD 149026b and TOI-849b are characteristic examples of these giant planets. It has been suggested that the envelope mass…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Masahiro Ogihara , Yasunori Hori , Masanobu Kunitomo , Kenji Kurosaki

We present Keck/OSIRIS 1.1-1.8 um adaptive optics integral field spectroscopy of the planetary-mass companion to GSC 06214-00210, a member of the ~5 Myr Upper Scorpius OB association. We infer a spectral type of L0+/-1, and our spectrum…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Brendan P. Bowler , Michael C. Liu , Adam L. Kraus , Andrew W. Mann , Michael J. Ireland

Thanks to recent high resolution ALMA observations, there is an accumulating evidence for presence of giant planets with masses from $\sim 0.01$ Jupiter mass to a few Jupiter mass with separations up to $ 100$~AU in the annular structures…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 S. Nayakshin , G. Dipierro , J. Szulagyi

Theories of planet formation predict the birth of giant planets in the inner, dense, and gas-rich regions of the circumstellar disks around young stars. These are the regions from which strong CO emission is expected. Observations have so…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Zs. Regaly , L. Kiss , Zs. Sandor , C. P. Dullemond

The discovery of giant planets in wide orbits represents a major challenge for planet formation theory. In the standard core accretion paradigm planets are expected to form at radial distances $\lesssim 20$ au in order to form massive cores…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-30 O. M. Guilera , M. M. Miller Bertolami , M. P. Ronco

The presence of distant protoplanets may explain the observed gaps in the dust emission of protoplanetary disks. Here, we derive a novel analytical model to describe the temporal decay of the pebble flux through a protoplanetary disk as the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-07 Nerea Gurrutxaga , Anders Johansen , Michiel Lambrechts , Johan Appelgren

Direct-imaging surveys have looked for accreting planets through their accretion tracers such as H alpha but have been less fruitful than expected. However, up to now, hydrogen-line emission at accreting planets has been estimated primarily…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 Gabriel-Dominique Marleau

A major outstanding question regarding the formation of planetary systems is whether wide-orbit giant planets form differently than close-in giant planets. We aim to establish constraints on two key parameters that are relevant for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-29 Kevin Wagner , Dániel Apai , Kaitlin M. Kratter

The stellar mass dependence of the unbiased giant planet occurrence rate may be the best statistical tool to constrain the formation of such planets. This rate rises and falls as a function of stellar mass, peaking around stars of $\sim…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Heather F Johnston , Olja Panic , Sabine Reffert , Beibei Liu , Xinghao Ma

Recently, gas giant planets in nearly circular orbits with large semimajor axes ($a \sim$ 30--1000AU) have been detected by direct imaging. We have investigated orbital evolution in a formation scenario for such planets, based on core…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Kikuchi , A. Higuchi , S. Ida

Exoplanets around different types of stars provide a window into the diverse environments in which planets form. This chapter describes the observed relations between exoplanet populations and stellar properties and how they connect to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-06 Gijs D. Mulders

The luminosity of young giant planets can inform about their formation and accretion history. The directly imaged planets detected so far are consistent with the "hot-start" scenario of high entropy and luminosity. If nebular gas passes…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 J. Szulágyi , C. Mordasini