Outward migration of a super-Earth in a disc with outward propagating density waves excited by a giant planet

Details Outward migration of a super-Earth in a disc with outward propagating density waves excited by a giant planet Outward migration of a super-Earth in a disc with outward propagating density waves excited by a giant planet

2011-12-22

arxiv.org/abs/1112.5432v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

24 pages, 23 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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In this paper we consider a new mechanism for stopping the inward migration of a low-mass planet embedded in a gaseous protoplanetary disc. It operates when a low-mass planet (for example a super-Earth), encounters outgoing density waves excited by another source in the disc. This source could be a gas giant in an orbit interior to that of the low-mass planet. As the super-Earth passes through the wave field, angular momentum is transferred to the disc material and then communicated to the planet through coorbital dynamics, with the consequence that its inward migration can be halted or even reversed. We illustrate how the mechanism we consider works in a variety of different physical conditions employing global two-dimensional hydrodynamical calculations. We confirm our results by performing local shearing box simulations in which the super-Earth interacts with density waves excited by an independent harmonically varying potential. Finally, we discuss the constraints arising from the process considered here, on formation scenarios for systems containing a giant planet and lower mass planet in an outer orbit with a 2:1 commensurability such as GJ876.

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