Formation of planetary cores at Type I migration traps

Details Formation of planetary cores at Type I migration traps Formation of planetary cores at Type I migration traps

2011-01-05

arxiv.org/abs/1101.0942v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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One of the longstanding unsolved problems of planet formation is how solid bodies of a few decimeters in size can "stick" to form large planetesimals. This is known as the "meter size barrier". In recent years it has become increasingly clear that some form of "particle trapping" must have played a role in overcoming the meter size barrier. Particles can be trapped in long-lived local pressure maxima, such as those in anticyclonic vortices, zonal flows or those believed to occur near ice lines or at dead zone boundaries. Such pressure traps are the ideal sites for the formation of planetesimals and small planetary embryos. Moreover, they likely produce large quantities of such bodies in a small region, making it likely that subsequent N-body evolution may lead to even larger planetary embryos. The goal of this Letter is to show that this indeed happens, and to study how efficient it is. In particular, we wish to find out if rocky/icy bodies as large as 10 M_earth can form within 1 Myr, since such bodies are the precursors of gas giant planets in the core accretion scenario.

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