Extrasolar giant planet formation: Monte Carlo simulations

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Feb 2006

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The characteristics of the now over 160 known extra-solar giant planets begin to provide a database with which current planet formation theories can be put to the test. Here we show the results of Monte Carlo simulations of giant planet formation and compare the distributions obtained to observations. We show that, since the current observational detection biases favor the discovery of relatively massive objects close to their star, only a small fraction of systems that were seeded with planetary embryos are actually detected. This effect coupled with the fact that metal rich systems favor the formation of massive planets is shown to lead to the well established correlation between stellar metallicity and the presence of planets.

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