Halting Planet Migration at 0.04 AU

Details Halting Planet Migration at 0.04 AU Halting Planet Migration at 0.04 AU

Dec 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001aas...199.3303l&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 199th AAS Meeting, #33.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 33, p.1356

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Planets in protoplanetary disks migrate inwards towards their host stars by tidal torquing. But some planets survive, always at semimajor axes a >= 0.038 AU. Interior to the radius R0 where the disk reaches T=1500 K (R0 ≈ 0.06 AU for solar-mass star), circumstellar dust sublimates and the gas can suddenly become ionized by the high temperature and penetrating UV photons. We assume that the ionization causes saturated Balbus-Hawley turbulence. Continuity dictates that the disk surface-density will plummet in the central zone by a factor of ~ 100 because of the turbulent high-viscosity accretion, so in the simplest circumstances there is not enough gas interior to R0 to affect the planet's orbit. Tidal torques become ineffective beyond the planet's 2:1 outer Linblad resonance, so planets find their migration halted at 0.63 R0 or 0.04 AU, where they can no longer interact with the dense disk beyond R0.

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