Methods for computing giant planet formation and evolution

Details Methods for computing giant planet formation and evolution Methods for computing giant planet formation and evolution

Feb 2005

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 356, Issue 4, pp. 1383-1395.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Planets And Satellites: Formation, Galaxies: Evolution

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We present a numerical code for computing all stages of the formation and evolution of giant planets in the framework of the core instability mechanism. This code is a non-trivial adaption of the stellar binary evolution code and is based on a standard Henyey technique. To investigate the performance of this code we applied it to the computation of the formation and evolution of a Jupiter mass object from a half Earth core mass to ages in excess of the age of the Universe.
We also present a new smoothed linear interpolation algorithm devised especially for the purpose of circumventing some problems found when some physical data (e.g. opacities, equation of state, etc.) are introduced into an implicit algorithm like the one employed in this work.

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