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Mar 1996
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996lpi....27..479h&link_type=abstract
Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 479
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Nebula Disk Torques, Planets: Formation, Pulsars, Resonance Trapping, Solar Nebula
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A protoplanet embedded in the solar nebula launches spiral density waves from its Lindblad resonances in the gas disk, and its gravitational attraction for these disturbances results in a mutual torque exerted between the protoplanet and the disk. Consequently the orbit of a sufficiently massive protoplanet may decay on a timescale shorter than the nebula lifetime, and this mechanism is most significant during the formation of the cores of the giant planets. Due to their increased mobility, migrating protoplanets may have been able to accrete large swaths of the disk and/or encounter other protoplanets. Thus disk torques may have played an important role in determining the formation history and orbit spacings of the giant planets. An interesting phenomenon also associated with orbit decay is resonance trapping, whereby a large body is able to halt further orbit decay of smaller bodies at commensurability resonances. Examples of this effect include the trapping of planetesimals experiencing aerodynamic gas drag and dust suffering Poynting-Robertson drag. Below we address the cosmogonic implications of resonance trapping of planetary embryos experiencing orbit decay due to nebula disk torques. The following employs an approach similar to Malhotra's (1993) discussion of the gas drag trapping problem.
Hahn Joseph M.
Ward William R.
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