Critical Protoplanetary Core Masses in Protoplanetary Disks and the Formation of Short-Period Giant Planets
We study a solid protoplanetary core of 1-10 earth masses migrating through a disk. We suppose the core luminosity is generated as a result of planetesimal accretion and calculate the structure of the gaseous envelope assuming equilibrium. This is a good approximation when the core mass is less than...
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Institute of Physics Publishing
1999
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