Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21343901c&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #439.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.313
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
It has been suggested that giant protoplanets form in protoplanetary disks when the disks undergo rapid cooling and fragment into dense Jupiter-mass clumps under the disks' own self-gravity. Previous three-dimensional simulations of protoplanetary disks investigated the effects of envelope irradiation on the development of gravitational instabilities (GIs) in such disks. We found that the irradiation tends to suppress the nonlinear amplitude of GIs and no dense clumps form, arguing against direct formation of giant planets by disk instability in irradiated disks (Cai et al. 2008). In this work, by utilizing an improved radiative cooling scheme in the optically thin regions, we present some preliminary results from simulations with a variable irradiation temperature that mimics the effects of stellar irradiation. Comparisons with results from an envelope-irradiated disk suggest that stellar irradiation may be more effective in suppressing GIs than envelope irradiation.
Cai Kai
Durisen Richard H.
Zhu Zeng-wei
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