A Possible Hybrid Scenario for Gas Giant Planet Formation in Rings

Details A Possible Hybrid Scenario for Gas Giant Planet Formation in Rings A Possible Hybrid Scenario for Gas Giant Planet Formation in Rings

2003-12-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312611v3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted in Icarus

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The core-accretion mechanism for gas giant formation may be too slow to create all observed gas giant planets during reasonable gas disk lifetimes, but it has yet to be firmly established that the disk instability model can produce permanent bound gaseous protoplanets under realistic conditions. Based on our recent simulations of gravitational instabilities in disks around young stars, we suggest that, even if instabilities due to disk self-gravity do not produce gaseous protoplanets directly, they may create persistent dense rings that are conducive to accelerated growth of gas giants through core accretion. The rings occur at and near the boundary between stable and unstable regions of the disk and appear to be produced by resonances with discrete spiral modes on the unstable side.

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