scholarly journals Planetary migration in gaseous protoplanetary disks

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (S249) ◽  
pp. 331-346
Author(s):  
Frédéric S. Masset

AbstractTides come from the fact that different parts of a system do not fall in exactly the same way in a non-uniform gravity field. In the case of a protoplanetary disk perturbed by an orbiting, prograde protoplanet, the protoplanet tides raise a wake in the disk which causes the orbital elements of the planet to change over time. The most spectacular result of this process is a change in the protoplanet's semi-major axis, which can decrease by orders of magnitude on timescales shorter than the disk lifetime. This drift in the semi-major axis is called planetary migration. In a first part, we describe how the planet and disk exchange angular momentum and energy at the Lindblad and corotation resonances. Next we review the various types of planetary migration that have so far been contemplated: type I migration, which corresponds to low-mass planets (less than a few Earth masses) triggering a linear disk response; type II migration, which corresponds to massive planets (typically at least one Jupiter mass) that open up a gap in the disk; “runaway” or type III migration, which corresponds to sub-giant planets that orbit in massive disks; and stochastic or diffusive migration, which is the migration mode of low- or intermediate-mass planets embedded in turbulent disks. Lastly, we present some recent results in the field of planetary migration.

2020 ◽  
Vol 637 ◽  
pp. A11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Baumann ◽  
Bertram Bitsch

Low-mass planets that are in the process of growing larger within protoplanetary disks exchange torques with the disk and change their semi-major axis accordingly. This process is called type I migration and is strongly dependent on the underlying disk structure. As a result, there are many uncertainties about planetary migration in general. In a number of simulations, the current type I migration rates lead to planets reaching the inner edge of the disk within the disk lifetime. A new kind of torque exchange between planet and disk, the thermal torque, aims to slow down inward migration via the heating torque. The heating torque may even cause planets to migrate outwards, if the planetary luminosity is large enough. Here, we study the influence on planetary migration of the thermal torque on top of previous type I models. We find that the formula of Paardekooper et al. (2011, MNRAS, 410, 293) allows for more outward migration than that of Jiménez & Masset (2017, MNRAS, 471, 4917) in most configurations, but we also find that planets evolve to very similar mass and final orbital radius using both formulae in a single planet-formation scenario, including pebble and gas accretion. Adding the thermal torque can introduce new, but small, regions of outwards migration if the accretion rates onto the planet correspond to typical solid accretion rates following the pebble accretion scenario. If the accretion rates onto the planets become very large, as could be the case in environments with large pebble fluxes (e.g., high-metallicity environments), the thermal torque can allow more efficient outward migration. However, even then, the changes for the final mass and orbital positions in our planet formation scenario are quite small. This implies that for single planet evolution scenarios, the influence of the heating torque is probably negligible.


2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (08) ◽  
pp. 1399-1414 ◽  
Author(s):  
İ. SAFFET YEŞİLYURT ◽  
E. NİHAL ERCAN ◽  
A. DEL POPOLO

In the current paper, we further improved the model for the migration of planets introduced and extended to time-dependent planetesimal accretion disks by Del Popolo. In the current study, the assumption of Del Popolo, that the surface density in planetesimals is proportional to that of gas, is relaxed. In order to obtain the evolution of planetesimal density, we use a method developed by Stepinski and Valageas which is able to simultaneously follow the evolution of gas and solid particles for up to 107 years. Then, the disk model is coupled to migration model introduced by Del Popolo in order to obtain the migration rate of the planet in the planetesimal. We find that the properties of solids known to exist in protoplanetary systems, together with reasonable density profiles for the disk, lead to a characteristic radius in the range 0.03–0.2 AU for the final semi-major axis of the giant planet.Hence our model can explain the properties of discovered extrasolar giant planets.


2004 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
pp. 84-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Mayor ◽  
D. Naef ◽  
F. Pepe ◽  
D. Queloz ◽  
N. C. Santos ◽  
...  

We report the discovery of an extrasolar planetary system with two Saturnian planets around the star HD 83443. The new planetary system is unusual by more than one aspect, as it contains two very low–mass gaseous giant planets, both on very tight orbits. Among the planets detected so far, the inner planet has the smallest semi–major axis (0.038 AU) and period (2.985 days) whereas the outer planet is the lightest one with m2 sin i = 0.53 MSat. A preliminary dynamical study confirms the stability of the system.


2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (S249) ◽  
pp. 309-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojia Zhang ◽  
Katherine Kretke ◽  
D. N. C. Lin

AbstractSuppression 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.


2020 ◽  
Vol 496 (3) ◽  
pp. 3314-3325 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Wimarsson ◽  
Beibei Liu ◽  
Masahiro Ogihara

ABSTRACT We propose a pebble-driven planet formation scenario to form giant planets with high multiplicity and large orbital distances in the early gas disc phase. We perform N-body simulations to investigate the growth and migration of low-mass protoplanets in the disc with inner viscously heated and outer stellar irradiated regions. The key feature of this model is that the giant planet cores grow rapidly by a combination of pebble accretion and planet–planet collisions. This consequently speeds up their gas accretion. Because of efficient growth, the planet transitions from rapid type I migration to slow type II migration early, reducing the inward migration substantially. Multiple giant planets can sequentially form in this way with increasing semimajor axes. Both mass growth and orbital retention are more pronounced when a large number of protoplanets are taken into account compared to the case of single planet growth. Eventually, a few numbers of giant planets form with orbital distances of a few to a few tens of aus within 1.5–3 Myr after the birth of the protoplanets. The resulting simulated planet populations could be linked to the substructures exhibited in disc observations as well as large orbital distance exoplanets observed in radial velocity and microlensing surveys.


2020 ◽  
Vol 642 ◽  
pp. A219
Author(s):  
O. Chrenko ◽  
D. Nesvorný

Context. The origin of giant planets at moderate separations ≃1–10 au is still not fully understood because numerical studies of Type II migration in protoplanetary disks often predict a decay of the semi-major axis that is too fast. According to recent 2D simulations, inward migration of a gap-opening planet can be slowed down or even reversed if the outer gap edge becomes heated by irradiation from the central star, and puffed up. Aims. Here, we study how stellar irradiation reduces the disk-driven torque and affects migration in more realistic 3D disks. Methods. Using 3D hydrodynamic simulations with radiation transfer, we investigated the static torque acting on a single gap-opening planet embedded in a passively heated accretion disk. Results. Our simulations confirm that a temperature inversion is established at the irradiated outer gap edge and the local increase of the scale height reduces the magnitude of the negative outer Lindblad torque. However, the temperature excess is smaller than assumed in 2D simulations and the torque reduction only becomes prominent for specific parameters. For the viscosity α = 10−3, the total torque is reduced for planetary masses ranging from 0.1 to 0.7 Jupiter mass, with the strongest reduction being by a factor of − 0.17 (implying outward migration) for a Saturn-mass planet. For a Jupiter-mass planet, the torque reduction becomes stronger with increasing α (the torque is halved when α = 5 × 10−3). Conclusions. We conclude that planets that open moderately wide and deep gaps are subject to the largest torque modifications and their Type II migration can be stalled due to gap edge illumination. We then argue that the torque reduction can help to stabilize the orbits of giant planets forming at ≳ 1 au.


1985 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 179-180
Author(s):  
Cl. Froeschlé

We investigated the orbital evolution of Quadrantid-like meteor streams situated in the vicinity of the 2/1 resonance with Jupiter. For the starting orbital elements we took the values of the orbital elements of the Quadrantid meteor stream except for the semi-major axis which was varied between a = 3.22 and a = 3.34 AU. We considered these meteor streams as a ring and we investigated the resonant effect on the dispersion of this ring over a period of 13 000 years. Only gravitational forces due to the Sun and due to Jupiter were taken into account.


2003 ◽  
Vol 211 ◽  
pp. 249-256
Author(s):  
Laird M. Close ◽  
Nick Siegler ◽  
Melanie Freed

Use of the highly sensitive Hōkūpa'a/Gemini curvature wave-front sensor has allowed for the first time direct adaptive optics (AO) guiding on very low mass (VLM) stars with SpT=M8.0–L0.5. A survey of 39 such objects detected 9 VLM binaries (7 of which were discovered for the first time to be binaries). Most of these systems (55%) are tight (separation < 5 AU) and have similar masses (ΔKs < 0.8 mag; 0.85 < q < 1.0). However, 2 systems (LHS 2397a, and 2M2331016-040618) have large ΔKs > 2.38 mag and consist of a VLM star orbited by a much cooler L6.5–L8.5 brown dwarf companion. Based on our initial flux limited (Ks < 12 mag) survey of 39 M8.0–L0.5 stars (mainly from the sample of Gizis et al. 2000) we find a binary fraction in the range 19±7% for M8.0–L0.5 binaries with separations > 2.6 AU. This is slightly less than the 32 ± 9% measured for more massive (M0–M4) stars over the same separation range (Fischer & Marcy 1992). It appears M8.0–L0.5 binaries (as well as L and T dwarf binaries) have a much smaller semi-major axis distribution peak (~ 4 AU) compared to more massive M and G stars which have a broad peak at larger ~ 30 AU separations. We also find no VLM binaries (Mtot < 0.18M⊙) with separations > 20 AU. We find that a velocity “kick” of ~ 3 km/s can reproduce the observed cut-off in the semi-major axis distribution at ˜ 20 AU. This kick may have been from the VLM system being ejected from its formation mini-cluster.


2018 ◽  
Vol 615 ◽  
pp. A90 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Almenara ◽  
R. F. Díaz ◽  
G. Hébrard ◽  
R. Mardling ◽  
C. Damiani ◽  
...  

Kepler-419 is a planetary system discovered by the Kepler photometry which is known to harbour two massive giant planets: an inner 3 MJ transiting planet with a 69.8-day period, highly eccentric orbit, and an outer 7.5 MJ non-transiting planet predicted from the transit-timing variations (TTVs) of the inner planet b to have a 675-day period, moderately eccentric orbit. Here we present new radial velocity (RV) measurements secured over more than two years with the SOPHIE spectrograph, where both planets are clearly detected. The RV data is modelled together with the Kepler photometry using a photodynamical model. The inclusion of velocity information breaks the MR−3 degeneracy inherent in timing data alone, allowing us to measure the absolute stellar and planetary radii and masses. With uncertainties of 12 and 13% for the stellar and inner planet radii, and 35, 24, and 35% for the masses of the star, planet b, and planet c, respectively, these measurements are the most precise to date for a single host star system using this technique. The transiting planet mass is determined at better precision than the star mass. This shows that modelling the radial velocities and the light curve together in systems of dynamically interacting planets provides a way of characterising both the star and the planets without being limited by knowledge of the star. On the other hand, the period ratio and eccentricities place the Kepler-419 system in a sweet spot; had around twice as many transits been observed, the mass of the transiting planet could have been measured using its own TTVs. Finally, the origin of the Kepler-419 system is discussed. We show that the system is near a coplanar high-eccentricity secular fixed point, related to the alignment of the orbits, which has prevented the inner orbit from circularising. For most other relative apsidal orientations, planet b’s orbit would be circular with a semi-major axis of 0.03 au. This suggests a mechanism for forming hot Jupiters in multiplanetary systems without the need of high mutual inclinations.


1996 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 45-48
Author(s):  
E.V. Pitjeva

The extremely precise Viking (1972–1982) and Mariner data (1971–1972) were processed simultaneously with the radar-ranging observations of Mars made in Goldstone, Haystack and Arecibo in 1971–1973 for the improvement of the orbital elements of Mars and Earth and parameters of Mars rotation. Reduction of measurements included relativistic corrections, effects of propagation of electromagnetic signals in the Earth troposphere and in the solar corona, corrections for topography of the Mars surface. The precision of the least squares estimates is rather high, for example formal standard deviations of semi-major axis of Mars and Earth and the Astronomical Unit were 1–2 m.


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