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We study the orbital evolution and mass growth of protoplanets with masses $M \in [0.1-8]$~M$_\oplus$ in the vicinity of a dusty ring, using three-dimensional numerical simulations with a two-fluid model and nested-meshes. We find two…

Planets form in discs of gas and dust around stars, and continue to grow by accretion of disc material while available. Massive planets clear a gap in their protoplanetary disc, but can still accrete gas through a circumplanetary disk. For…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-29 Matías Gárate , Jorge Cuadra , Matias Montesinos , Patricia Arévalo

Tidal interactions between the embedded planets and their surrounding protoplanetary disks are often postulated to produce the observed complex dust substructures, including rings, gaps, and asymmetries. In this Letter, we explore the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 JT Laune , Hui Li , Shengtai Li , Ya-Ping Li , Levi G. Walls , Tilman Birnstiel , Joanna Drazkowska , Sebastian Stammler

With hundreds of exoplanets detected, it is necessary to revisit giant planets accretion models to explain their mass distribution. In particular, formation of sub-jovian planets remains unclear, given the short timescale for the runaway…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Guillaume Rivier , Aurélien Crida , Alessandro Morbidelli , Yann Brouet

By means of high resolution hydrodynamical, three-dimensional calculations with nested-meshes, we evaluate the eccentricity reached by a low-mass, luminous planet embedded in an inviscid disc with constant thermal diffusivity and subjected…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-06 David A. Velasco-Romero , Frédéric S. Masset , Romain Teyssier

Transitional and pre--transitional disks can be explained by a number of mechanisms. This work aims to find a single observationally detectable marker that would imply a planetary origin for the gap and, therefore, indirectly indicate the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Jack Dobinson , Zoë M. Leinhardt , Sarah E. Dodson-Robinson , Nick A. Teanby

Recent observations have revealed a gallery of substructures in the dust component of nearby protoplanetary discs, including rings, gaps, spiral arms, and lopsided concentrations. One interpretation of these substructures is the existence…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Chao-Chin Yang , Zhaohuan Zhu

The planet migration due to the disk--planet interaction is one of the most important processes to determine the architecture of planetary systems. A sufficiently massive planet forms a density gap and migrates together with the gap. By…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Kazuhiro D. Kanagawa

Planets can affect debris disk structure by creating gaps, sharp edges, warps, and other potentially observable signatures. However, there is currently no simple way for observers to deduce a disk-shepherding planet's properties from the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Timothy J. Rodigas , Renu Malhotra , Philip M. Hinz

Theoretical formation models and exoplanet detection surveys indicate that systems with multiple giant planets are common. We investigate how multiple super-thermal mass planets embedded in a circumstellar disk shape the dust distribution…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 V. Roatti , G. Picogna , F. Marzari

Planets can excite density waves and open annular gas gaps in protoplanetary disks. The depth of gaps is influenced by the evolving angular momentum carried by density waves. While the impact of radiative cooling on the evolution of density…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-20 Minghao Zhang , Pinghui Huang , Ruobing Dong

The orbital eccentricity-radius relation for small planets is indicative of the predominant dynamical sculpting processes during late-stage orbital evolution. Previous studies have shown that planets orbiting Sun-like stars exhibit an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-11 Sheila Sagear , Sarah Ballard , Gregory J. Gilbert , Mariangel Albornoz , Christopher Lam

Recent discoveries of extrasolar planets at small orbital radii, or with significant eccentricities, indicate that interactions between massive planets and the disks of gas and dust from which they formed are vital for determining the final…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Philip J. Armitage , Brad M. S. Hansen

We present a new analytic approach to the disk-planet interaction that is especially useful for planets with eccentricity larger than the disk aspect ratio. We make use of the dynamical friction formula to calculate the force exerted on the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Takayuki Muto , Taku Takeuchi , Shigeru Ida

Debris disks should not be completely gas-free, since there is second generation gas from outgassing of planetesimals and dust grains via sublimation, photodesorption, or collisions, generating a system of dust-to-gas ratio close to unity,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-23 Wladimir Lyra , Marc J. Kuchner

We carry out three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations to study planet-disc interactions for inclined high mass planets, focusing on the disc's secular evolution induced by the planet. We find that, when the planet is massive enough and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Zhaohuan Zhu

We perform a series of 3D simulations to study the accretion of giant planet embedded in protoplanetary discs (PPDs) over gap-opening timescales. We find that the accretion mass flux mainly comes from the intermediate latitude above the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-05 Ya-Ping Li , Yi-Xian Chen , Douglas N. C. Lin

We investigate the interaction between a giant planet and a viscous circumstellar disk by means of high-resolution, two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations. We consider planet masses that range from 1 to 3 Jupiter masses (Mjup) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Gennaro D'Angelo , Stephen H. Lubow , Matthew R. Bate

Constraining the strength of gas turbulence in protoplanetary discs is an open problem that has relevant implications for the physics of gas accretion and planet formation. In this work, we gauge the amount of turbulence in 6 of the discs…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-25 E. Pizzati , G. P. Rosotti , B. Tabone

The giant impact phase of terrestrial planet formation establishes connections between super-Earths' orbital properties (semimajor axis spacings, eccentricities, mutual inclinations) and interior compositions (the presence or absence of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-09 Rebekah I. Dawson , Eve J. Lee , Eugene Chiang