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On the possibility of enrichment and differentiation in gas giants during birth by disk instability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2011

Aaron C. Boley  and
Richard H. Durisen
Aaron C. Boley
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy; University of Florida, 211 Bryant Space Science Center, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA email: aaron.boley@gmail.com
Richard H. Durisen
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Indiana University, 727 East 3rd Street, Swain West 319, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
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Abstract

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We investigate the coupling between solids and gas during the formation of gas giant planets by disk fragmentation in the outer regions of massive disks. We find that fragments can become differentiated at birth. Even if an entire clump does not survive, differentiation could create solids cores that survive to accrete gaseous envelopes later.

Keywords

planetary systems: protoplanetary disksplanetary systems: formation
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S276: The Astrophysics of Planetary Systems: Formation, Structure, and Dynamical Evolution , October 2010 , pp. 401 - 402
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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