New Jupiter and Saturn formation models meet observations

Details New Jupiter and Saturn formation models meet observations New Jupiter and Saturn formation models meet observations

2005-04-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0504598v1

Astrophys.J. 626 (2005) L57-L60

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted in APjL. 2 color figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/431325

The wealth of observational data about Jupiter and Saturn provides strong constraints to guide our understanding of the formation of giant planets. The size of the core and the total amount of heavy elements in the envelope have been derived from internal structure studies by Saumon & Guillot (2004). The atmospheric abundance of some volatile elements has been measured {\it in situ} by the {\it Galileo} probe (Mahaffy et al. 2000, Wong et al. 2004) or by remote sensing (Briggs & Sackett 1989, Kerola et al. 1997). In this Letter, we show that, by extending the standard core accretion formation scenario of giant planets by Pollack et al. (1996) to include migration and protoplanetary disk evolution, it is possible to account for all of these constraints in a self-consistent manner.

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