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Retention of protoplanetary cores near the snowline

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2007

Xiaojia Zhang ,
Katherine Kretke  and
D. N. C. Lin
Xiaojia Zhang
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, PKU, China
Katherine Kretke
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UCSC, CA
D. N. C. Lin
Affiliation:
KIAA, PKU, China Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UCSC, CA
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Abstract

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Suppression of type I migration is essential for the retention of protoplanetary cores which are sufficiently massive to accrete gas in their nascent disks and evolve into gas giant planets. We explore here the possibility that special disk properties at the snow line may be the dominant process which stalled the type I migration. We simply use a 1-D model to calculate the torque with linear formula and find that, if the surface density jump near snowline is great enough, the migration can be efficiently slowed down or even halted. This mechanism offers an explanation to the observed peak, at 2–3 AU, in the extra solar planets' semi major axis distribution.

Keywords

Protoplanetary coresType I migrationSnowline
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 3 , Symposium S249: Exoplanets: Detection, Formation and Dynamics , October 2007 , pp. 309 - 312
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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