Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-03-28
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 320 (2001) L55
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04159.x
We present a mechanism related to the migration of giant protoplanets embedded in a protoplanetary disc whereby a giant protoplanet is caught up, before having migrated all the way to the central star, by a lighter outer giant protoplanet. This outer protoplanet may get captured into the 2:3 resonance with the more massive one, in which case the gaps that the two planets open in the disc overlap. Two effects arise, namely a squared mass weighted torque imbalance and an increased mass flow through the overlapping gaps from the outer disc to the inner disc, which both play in favour of an outwards migration. Indeed under the conditions presented here, which describe the evolution of a pair of protoplanets respectively Jupiter and Saturn sized, the migration is reversed, while the planets semi-major axis ratio is constant and the eccentricities are confined to small values by the disc material. The long-term behaviour of the system is briefly discussed, and could account for the high eccentricities observed for the extrasolar planets with semi-major axis a>0.2 AU.
Masset Frédéric
Snellgrove M.
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