Retention of protoplanetary cores near the snowline

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May 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008iaus..249..309z&link_type=abstract

Exoplanets: Detection, Formation and Dynamics, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 249, p

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Protoplanetary Cores, Type I Migration, Snowline

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Suppression of type I migration is essential for the retention of protoplanetary cores which are sufficiently massive to accrete gas in their nascent disks and evolve into gas giant planets. We explore here the possibility that special disk properties at the snow line may be the dominant process which stalled the type I migration. We simply use a 1-D model to calculate the torque with linear formula and find that, if the surface density jump near snowline is great enough, the migration can be efficiently slowed down or even halted. This mechanism offers an explanation to the observed peak, at 2 3 AU, in the extra solar planets' semi major axis distribution.

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