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We carry out a series of high-resolution (1024 X 1024) hydrodynamic simulations to investigate the orbital evolution of a Saturn-Jupiter pair embedded in a gaseous disk. This work extends the results of our previous work by exploring a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Hui Zhang , Ji-Lin Zhou

The hundreds of exoplanets that have been discovered in the past two decades offer a new perspective on planetary structure. Instead of being the archetypal examples of planets, those of our Solar System are merely possible outcomes of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 David S. Spiegel , Jonathan J. Fortney , Christophe Sotin

In this paper we investigate the evolution of a pair of interacting planets - a Jupiter mass planet and a Super-Earth with the 5.5 Earth masses - orbiting a Solar type star and embedded in a gaseous protoplanetary disc. We focus on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Podlewska , E. Szuszkiewicz

Observations of exoplanets over the last two decades have revealed a new class of Jupiter-size planets with orbital periods of a few days, the so-called "hot Jupiters". Recent measurements using the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect have shown…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Jean Teyssandier , Smadar Naoz , Ian M. Lizarraga , Frederic A. Rasio

Most studies concerning the growth and evolution of massive planets focus either on their accretion or their migration only. In this work we study both processes concurrently to investigate how they might mutually affect each other. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Christoph Dürmann , Wilhelm Kley

We review the interior structure and evolution of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, and giant exoplanets with particular emphasis on constraining their global composition. Compared to the first edition of this review, we provide a new…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Tristan Guillot , Daniel Gautier

Gas giant planets are differentially rotating magnetic objects that have strong and complex interactions with their environment. In our Solar system, they interact with their numerous moons while exoplanets with very short orbital periods…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-03 Hachem Dhouib , Clément Baruteau , Stéphane Mathis , Florian Debras , Aurélie Astoul , Michel Rieutord

The formation of a cold Jupiter (CJ) is expected to quench the influx of pebbles and the migration of cores interior to its orbit, thus limiting the efficiency of rocky planet formation either by pebble accretion and/or orbital migration.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-18 Marcy Best , Antranik A. Sefilian , Cristobal Petrovich

It is reasonable to assume that the structure of a planet and the interior distribution of its components are determined by its formation history. We thus follow the growth of a planet from a small embryo through its subsequent evolution.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Michael Lozovsky , Dina Prialnik , Morris Podolak

We have developed a one-dimensional thermochemical kinetics and diffusion model for Jupiter's atmosphere that accurately describes the transition from the thermochemical regime in the deep troposphere (where chemical equilibrium is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Channon Visscher , Julianne I. Moses , Sarah A. Saslow

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

The core accretion mechanism is presently the most widely accepted cause of the formation of giant planets. For simplicity, most models presently assume that the growth of planetary embryos occurs in isolation. We explore how the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 O. M. Guilera , A. Brunini , O. G. Benvenuto

Recent observational findings have suggested a positive correlation between the occurrence rates of inner super-Earths and outer giant planets. These results raise the question of whether this trend can be reproduced and explained by planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 M. Schlecker , C. Mordasini , A. Emsenhuber , H. Klahr , Th. Henning , R. Burn , Y. Alibert , W. Benz

Several short-period Jupiter-mass planets have been discovered around nearby solar-type stars. During the circularization of their orbits, the dissipation of tidal disturbance by their host stars heats the interior and inflates the sizes of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pin-Gao Gu , Peter H. Bodenheimer , Douglas N. C. Lin

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

A first characterization of many exoplanets has recently been achieved by the observational determination of their radius. For some planets, a measurement of the luminosity has also been possible, with many more directly imaged planets…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 C. Mordasini , Y. Alibert , H. Klahr , T. Henning

Several observational works have shown the existence of Jupiter-mass planets covering a wide range of semi-major axes around Sun-like stars. We aim to analyse the planetary formation processes around Sun-like stars that host a Jupiter-mass…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 L. A. Darriba , G. C. de Elía , O. M. Guilera , A. Brunini

The observed low densities of gas giant planets with a high equilibrium temperature can be simulated in models when a fraction of the surface radiation is deposited deeper in the interior. Meanwhile migration theories suggest that hot…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Marit Mol Lous , Yamila Miguel

The high-precision Juno gravitational measurements allow us to infer the structure of Jupiter's deep atmospheric zonal flow. Since this inference is nonunique, it is important to explore the space of possible solutions. In this paper, we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Laura Kulowski , Hao Cao , Rakesh K. Yadav , Jeremy Bloxham

We describe the current state of knowledge about Mercury's interior structure. We review the available observational constraints, including mass, size, density, gravity field, spin state, composition, and tidal response. These data enable…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-11 Jean-Luc Margot , Steven A. Hauck , Erwan Mazarico , Sebastiano Padovan , Stanton J. Peale