The critical mass for protoplanets revisited - Massive envelopes through convection

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Nov 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993icar..106..323w&link_type=abstract

Icarus, vol. 106, p. 323

Physics

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Protoplanets, Planetary Mass, Accretion Disks, Convection, Stellar Envelopes, Interplanetary Dust, Interstellar Matter, Boundary Conditions, Luminous Intensity

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It is presently noted that the constancy of the total mass-core mass relation, and therefore the constancy of the critical mass for static core-envelope protoplanets vanishes, when the outer parts of the protoplanetary envelopes become convective. Once the outermost parts of the protoplanetary envelopes are convective, their role as a transition region for the planetary interior to the solar nebula is changed. The critical core mass of protoplanets with convective outer envelopes decreases with increasing solar nebular density.

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