Formation of Large Regular Satellites of Giant Planets in an Extended Gaseous Nebula

Details Formation of Large Regular Satellites of Giant Planets in an Extended Gaseous Nebula Formation of Large Regular Satellites of Giant Planets in an Extended Gaseous Nebula

Jan 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000stin...0229908m&link_type=abstract

Technical Report, NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA United States

Computer Science

Migration, Torque, Saturn Satellites, Position (Location), Uranus Satellites, Callisto, Iapetus, Planetary Evolution, Titan, Jupiter Satellites

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Using an optically thick inner disk and an extended, optically thin outer disk as described in Mosqueira and Estrada, we compute the torque as a function of position in the subnebula, and show that although the torque exerted on the satellite is generally negative, which leads to inward migration as expected, there are regions of the disk where the torque is positive. For our model these regions of positive torque correspond roughly to the locations of Callisto and Iapetus. Though the outer location of zero torque depends on the (unknown) size of the transition region between the inner and outer disks, the result that Saturn's is found much farther out (at approximately 3r(sub c, sup S) where r(sub c, sup S) is Saturn's centrifugal radius) than Jupiter's (at approximately 2r(sub c, sup J), where r(sub c, sup J) is Jupiter's centrifugal radius) is mostly due to Saturn's less massive outer disk, and larger Hill radius. For a satellite to survive in the disk the timescale of satellite migration must be longer than the timescale for gas dissipation. For large satellites (approximately 1000 km) migration is dominated by the gas torque. We consider the possibility that the feedback reaction of the gas disk caused by the redistribution of gas surface density around satellites with masses larger than the inertial mass causes a large drop in the drift velocity of such objects, thus improving the likelihood that they will be left stranded following gas dissipation. We adapt the inviscid inertial mass criterion to include gas drag, and m-dependent non-local deposition of angular momentum.

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