Thermo-Hydrodynamics of Circumstellar Disks with High-mass Planets

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2003-09-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0309236v1

Astrophys.J.599:548-576,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

31 pages 26 figures. To appear in The Astrophysical Journal vol.599 (December 10, 2003 issue)

Scientific paper

10.1086/379224

With a series of numerical simulations, we analyze the thermo-hydrodynamical evolution of circumstellar disks containing Jupiter-size protoplanets. In the framework of the two-dimensional approximation, we consider an energy equation that includes viscous heating and radiative effects in a simplified, yet consistent form. Multiple nested grids are used in order to study both global and local features around the planet. By means of different viscosity prescriptions, we investigate various temperature regimes. A planetary mass range from 0.1 to 1 Mj is examined. Computations show that gap formation is a general property which affects density, pressure, temperature, optical thickness, and radiated flux distributions. However, it remains a prominent feature only when the kinematic viscosity is on the order of 10^(15) cm^2/s or lower. Around accreting planets, a circumplanetary disk forms that has a surface density profile decaying exponentially with the distance and whose mass is 5-6 orders of magnitudes smaller than Jupiter's mass. Circumplanetary disk temperature profiles decline roughly as the inverse of the distance from the planet. Temperatures range from some 10 to ~1000 K. Planetary accretion and migration rates depend on the viscosity regime, with discrepancies within an order of magnitude. Estimates of growth and migration time scales inferred by these models are on the same orders of magnitude as those previously obtained with locally isothermal simulations.

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