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We calculate rates of Type I migration of protoplanets in a non-isothermal three-dimensional protoplanetary disk, building upon planet-disk models developed in previous work. We find that including the vertical thickness of the disk results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hannah Jang-Condell , Dimitar D. Sasselov

The migration of a planet through a gaseous disc causes the locations of their resonant interactions to drift and can alter the torques exerted between the planet and the disc. We analyse the time-dependent dynamics of a non-coorbital…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. I. Ogilvie , S. H. Lubow

We study the torque acting on a planet embedded in an optically thick accretion disc, using global two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations. The temperature of an optically thick accretion disc is determined by the energy balance between…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 K. Yamada , S. Inaba

The release of heat by a planetary embryo modifies the local density perturbations, forming thermal lobes in its vicinity, and thereby altering the torque exerted by the disk on the embryo. In laminar disks, these thermal torques can…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 R. O. Chametla , A. Moranchel-Basurto , F. J. Sánchez-Salcedo

Context. The dynamics of a low-mass protoplanet accreting solids is influenced by the heating torque, which was found to suppress inward migration in protoplanetary disks with constant opacities. Aims. We investigate the differences of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Ondřej Chrenko , Michiel Lambrechts

Migration of protoplanets in their gaseous host disks may be largely responsible for the observed orbital distribution of extrasolar planets. Recent simulations have shown that the magnetorotational turbulence thought to drive accretion in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeffrey S. Oishi , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Kristen Menou

Gravitational coupling between a protoplanetary disc and an embedded eccentric planet is an important, long-standing problem, which has been not yet been conclusively explored. Here we study the torque and associated orbital evolution of an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Callum W. Fairbairn , Roman R. Rafikov

Planet traps are necessary to prevent forming planets from falling onto their host star by type I migration. Surface mass density and temperature gradient irregularities favor the apparition of traps and deserts. Such features are found at…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-11 Kévin Baillié , Sébastien Charnoz , Éric Pantin

Using linear perturbation theory, we investigate the torque exerted on a low-mass planet embedded in a gaseous protoplanetary disc with finite thermal diffusivity. When the planet does not release energy into the ambient disc, the main…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Frederic S. Masset

Recent developments in non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic simulations of protoplanetary disks suggest that instead of being traditional turbulent (viscous) accretion disks, they have a largely laminar flow with accretion driven by large-scale…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 Colin P. McNally , Richard P. Nelson , Sijme-Jan Paardekooper , Oliver Gressel , Wladimir Lyra

A large planet orbiting a star in a protoplanetary disk opens a density gap along its orbit due to the strong disk-planet interaction and migrates with the gap in the disk. It is expected that in the ideal case, a gap-opening planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Kazuhiro D. Kanagawa , Hidekazu Tanaka , Ewa Szuszkiewicz

Although dust constitutes only about 1% of the mass of a protoplanetary disk, recent studies demonstrate that it can exert a significant torque on low- and intermediate-mass planetary cores. We compute and quantify for the first time the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 Octavio M. Guilera , Pablo Benitez-Llambay , Marcelo M. Miller Bertolami , Martin E. Pessah

Recent studies on planet-dominated Type II migration demonstrated the presence of a correlation between the direction of planet migration and the parameter K describing the depth of the planetary gap. It was found that high (low) value for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-23 Chiara E. Scardoni , Giovanni P. Rosotti , Cathie J. Clarke , Enrico Ragusa , Richard A. Booth

(Abridged) We investigate how galactic disks react to external tidal torques. We calculate the strength and radial dependence of torques on disks that arise from a misalignment between the disk and the main axis system of a flattened dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeremy Bailin , Matthias Steinmetz

[Abridged] We evaluate the coorbital corotation torque on a migrating protoplanet. The coorbital torque is assumed to come from orbit crossing fluid elements which exchange angular momentum with the planet when they execute a U-turn at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. S. Masset , J. C. B. Papaloizou

(Abridged).We present the results of MHD simulations of low mass protoplanets interacting with turbulent disks. We calculate the orbital evolution of `planetesimals' and protoplanets with masses in the range 0 < m_p < 30 M_Earth.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Richard P. Nelson

We consider the angular momentum exchange at the corotation resonance between a two-dimensional gaseous disk and a uniformly rotating external potential, assuming that the disk flow is adiabatic. We first consider the linear case for an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Baruteau , F. Masset

Fast inward migration of planetary cores is a common problem in the current planet formation paradigm. Even though dust is ubiquitous in protoplanetary disks, its dynamical role in the migration history of planetary embryos has not been…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-26 Pablo Benítez-Llambay , Martin E. Pessah

One class of protoplanetary disc models, the X-wind model, predicts strongly subkeplerian orbital gas velocities, a configuration that can be sustained by magnetic tension. We investigate disc-planet interactions in these subkeplerian…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. -J. Paardekooper

Planet migration within inner protoplanetary disks significantly influences exoplanet architectures. We investigate various migration mechanisms for young planets close to young stars. To quantify the stochastic migration driven by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Arturo Cevallos Soto , Zhaohuan Zhu