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We study the evolution of a protoplanet of a few earth masses embedded in a protoplanetary disc. If we assume that the atmosphere of the protoplanet, i.e. the volume of gas in hydrostatic equilibrium bound to the core, has a surface radius…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Caroline Terquem , Tobias Heinemann

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

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

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

After protoplanets have acquired sufficient mass to open partial gaps in their natal protostellar disks, residual gas continues to diffuse onto horseshoe streamlines under effect of viscous dissipation, and meander in and out of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Ya-Ping Li , Yi-Xian Chen , Douglas N. C. Lin , Xiaojia Zhang

A large fraction of giant planets have gaseous envelopes that are limited to about 10 % of their total mass budget. Such planets are present in the Solar System (Uranus, Neptune) and are frequently observed in short periods around other…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Michiel Lambrechts , Elena Lega

Context. Protoplanetary discs are the birthplaces of planets. Recent studies highlight the role of stellar mass sampling in determining disc lifetimes from the observed fraction of stars with discs. Low-mass stars tend to host longer-lived…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Jose L. Gomez , Octavio M. Guilera , Marcelo M. Miller Bertolami , Elisa Castro-Martínez , María Paula Ronco

This study uses numerical hydrodynamics calculations and a novel method for densely sampling parameter space to measure the precise shape of a gap opened by a planet in a gaseous disk, as a function of planet-to-star mass ratio, disk Mach…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Paul C. Duffell

The early evolution of protostellar, star-forming discs, including their density structure, turbulence, magnetic dynamics, and accretion variability, remains poorly understood. We present high-resolution magnetohydrodynamic simulations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Trey Qingyun Yang , Christoph Federrath

The evolution of protoplanetary discs embedded in stellar clusters depends on the age and the stellar density in which they are embedded. Stellar clusters of young age and high stellar surface density destroy protoplanetary discs by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Nelson Ndugu , Bertram Bitsch , Edward Jurua

The three-dimensional structure of the gas flow around a planet is thought to influence the accretion of both gas and solid materials. In particular, the outflow in the mid-plane region may prevent the accretion of the solid materials and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Ayumu Kuwahara , Hiroyuki Kurokawa , Shigeru Ida

We study the interaction between massive planets and a gas disc with a mass in the range expected for protoplanetary discs. We use SPH simulations to study the orbital evolution of a massive planet as well as the dynamical response of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-11 Meng Xiang-Gruess , John C. B. Papaloizou

We study the accretion of dust particles of various sizes onto embedded massive gas giant planets, where we take into account the structure of the gas disk due to the presence of the planet. The accretion rate of solids is important for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. -J. Paardekooper

Recent detailed observations of protoplanetary discs revealed a lot of sub-structures which are mostly ring-like. One interpretation is that these rings are caused by growing planets. These potential planets are not yet opening very deep…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Nelson Ndugu , Bertram Bitsch , Edward Jurua

The growth and migration of planetesimals in a young protoplanetary disc are fundamental to planet formation. In all models of early growth, there are several processes that can inhibit grains from reaching larger sizes. Nevertheless,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 A. Hughes , A. C. Boley

The core accretion model of giant planet formation has been challenged by the discovery of recycling flows between the planetary envelope and the disc that can slow or stall envelope accretion. We carry out 3D radiation hydrodynamic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Zhaohuan Zhu , Yan-Fei Jiang , Hans Baehr , Andrew N. Youdin , Philip J. Armitage , Rebecca G. Martin

We analyze the orbital and mass evolution of planets that undergo run-away gas accretion by means of 2D and 3D hydrodynamic simulations. The disk torque distribution per unit disk mass as a function of radius provides an important…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-18 Gennaro D'Angelo , Stephen H. Lubow

Gas accretion onto the circumplanetary disks and the source region of accreting gas are important to reveal dust accretion that leads to satellite formation around giant planets. We performed local three-dimensional high-resolution…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Natsuho Maeda , Keiji Ohtsuki , Takayuki Tanigawa , Masahiro N. Machida , Ryo Suetsugu

We consider an extreme case of disc accretion onto a gravitating centre when the viscosity in the disc is negligible. The angular momentum and the rotational energy of the accreted matter is carried out by a magnetized wind outflowing from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 Sergei Bogovalov , Stanislav Kelner

We study protoplanetary disc evolution assuming that angular momentum transport is driven by gravitational instability at large radii, and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the hot inner regions. At radii of the order of 1 AU such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Philip J. Armitage , Mario Livio , J. E. Pringle