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Simulations of planet migration driven by planetesimal scattering |
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| Authors: | David R Kirsh Martin Duncan Harold F Levison |
| Institution: | a Department of Physics, Queen's University, 99 University Avenue, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada b Department of Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute, 1050 Walnut Street, Suite 429, Boulder, CO 80302, USA |
| Abstract: | Evidence has mounted for some time that planet migration is an important part of the formation of planetary systems, both in the Solar System Malhotra, R., 1993. Nature 365, 819-821] and in extrasolar systems Mayor, M., Queloz, D., 1995. Nature 378, 355-359; Lin, D.N.C., Bodenheimer, P., Richardson, D.C., 1996. Nature 380, 606-607]. One mechanism that produces migration (the change in a planet's semi-major axis a over time) is the scattering of comet- and asteroid-size bodies called planetesimals Fernandez, J.A., Ip, W.-H., 1984. Icarus 58, 109-120]. Significant angular momentum exchange can occur between the planets and the planetesimals during local scattering, enough to cause a rapid, self-sustained migration of the planet Ida, S., Bryden, G., Lin, D.N.C., Tanaka, H., 2000. Astrophys. J. 534, 428-445]. This migration has been studied for the particular case of the four outer planets of the Solar System (as in Gomes et al. Gomes, R.S., Morbidelli, A., Levison, H.F., 2004. Icarus 170, 492-507]), but is not well understood in general. We have used the Miranda McNeil, D., Duncan, M., Levison, H.F., 2005. Astron. J. 130, 2884-2899] computer simulation code to perform a broad parameter-space survey of the physical variables that determine the migration of a single planet in a planetesimal disk. Migration is found to be predominantly inwards, and the migration rate is found to be independent of planet mass for low-mass planets in relatively high-mass disks. Indeed, a simple scaling relation from Ida et al. Ida, S., Bryden, G., Lin, D.N.C., Tanaka, H., 2000. Astrophys. J. 534, 428-445] matches well with the dependencies of the migration rate: (1) |
| Keywords: | Planets migration Planetesimals Planet-disk interactions Planetary dynamics |
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