Computer Science
Scientific paper
Feb 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006icar..180..496c&link_type=abstract
Icarus, Volume 180, Issue 2, p. 496-513.
Computer Science
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Scientific paper
A new semi-analytic model for the oligarchic growth phase of planetary accretion is developed. The model explicitly calculates damping and excitation of planetesimal eccentricities e and inclinations i due to gas drag and perturbations from embryos. The effects of planetesimal fragmentation, enhanced embryo capture cross sections due to atmospheres, inward planetesimal drift, and embryo embryo collisions are also incorporated. In the early stages of oligarchic growth, embryos grow rapidly as e and i fall below their equilibrium values. The formation of planetesimal collision fragments also speeds up embryo growth as fragments have low-e, low-i orbits, thereby optimizing gravitational focussing. At later times, the presence of thick atmospheres captured from the nebula aids embryo growth by increasing their capture cross sections. Planetesimal drift due to gas drag can lead to substantial inward transport of solid material. However, inward drift is greatly reduced when embryo atmospheres are present, as the drift timescale is no longer short compared to the accretion timescale. Embryo embryo collisions increase embryo growth rates by 50% compared to the case where growth is solely due to accretion of planetesimals. Formation of 0.1-Earth-mass protoplanets at 1 AU and 10-Earth-mass cores at 5 AU requires roughly 0.1 and 1 million years respectively, in a nebula where the local solid surface density is 7 g cm-2 at each of these locations.
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