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Title: Planet formation - architectures, theory
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Authors:
Shigeru Ida
(Tokyo Institute of Technology)
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Abstract:
I will review planet formation theory, based on core accretion scenario
for gas giant planets, focusing on connection with observations of
protoplanery disks and extrasolar planets. Planetesimal accretion to
form terrestrial planets and cores of gas giants, gas accretion onto
the cores, orbital migration of giant planets to form “hot jupiters”,
and orbital instability of giant planets to form “eccentric planets”
are discussed. In general, formation of gas giants is favored in the
regions just beyond an ice boundary. The formation of gas giants is
inhibited by small core isolation mass in inner regions and by slow
core growth in outer regions. In massive disks, gas giants can form
well before deletion of disk gas, resulting in hot jupiters through the
migration. More than 3 gas giants can also co-exist, resulting in
eccentric planets through the orbital instability. In disks similar to
the minimum mass solar nebula, only one or two gas giants form on
timescales comp!
arable to disk lifetime, so that they tend not to undergo orbital
migration and instability. With the available data for distribution of
disk mass, mass and orbital radius distribution of planets is predicted
and compared with observation of extrasolar planets. Our model accounts
for the observed dependence on metallicity of host stars. The
dependence on mass of host stars is also predicted. For example,
Neptune mass planets may be much more common than Jupiter mass planets
around M stars, if disk mass is significantly lower than that around
FGK stars.
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