Migration of giant planets in planetesimal discs

Details Migration of giant planets in planetesimal discs Migration of giant planets in planetesimal discs

2001-03-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0103327v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 325 (2001) 1402

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

21 pages; 6 encapsulated figures. Accepted by MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04517.x

Planets orbiting a planetesimal circumstellar disc can migrate inward from their initial positions because of dynamical friction between planets and planetesimals. The migration rate depends on the disc mass and on its time evolution. Planets that are embedded in long-lived planetesimal discs, having total mass of $10^{-4}-0.01 M_{\odot}$, can migrate inward a large distance and can survive only if the inner disc is truncated or because of tidal interaction with the star. In this case the semi-major axis, a, of the planetary orbit is less than 0.1 AU. Orbits with larger $a$ are obtained for smaller value of the disc mass or for a rapid evolution (depletion) of the disc. This model may explain several of the orbital features of the giant planets that were discovered in last years orbiting nearby stars as well as the metallicity enhancement found in several stars associated with short-period planets.

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