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Oscillatory migration of accreting protoplanets driven by a 3D distortion of the gas flow
Type of publication: Article
Citation:
Publication status: Published
Journal: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Volume: 626
Year: 2019
Month: jun
Pages: A109
ISSN: 0004-6361
URL: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/...
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935334
Abstract: Context: The dynamics of a low-mass protoplanet accreting solids is influenced by the heating torque, which was found to suppress inward migration in protoplanetary disks with constant opacities.
Aims: We investigate the differences in the heating torque between disks with constant and temperature-dependent opacities.
Methods: Interactions of a super-Earth-sized protoplanet with the gas disk are explored using 3D radiation hydrodynamic simulations.
Results: Accretion heating of the protoplanet creates a hot underdense region in the surrounding gas, leading to misalignment of the local density and pressure gradients. As a result, the 3D gas flow is perturbed and some of the streamlines form a retrograde spiral rising above the protoplanet. In the constant-opacity disk, the perturbed flow reaches a steady state and the underdense gas responsible for the heating torque remains distributed in accordance with previous studies. If the opacity is non-uniform, however, the differences in the disk structure can lead to more vigorous streamline distortion and eventually to a flow instability. The underdense gas develops a one-sided asymmetry which circulates around the protoplanet in a retrograde fashion. The heating torque thus strongly oscillates in time and does not on average counteract inward migration.
Conclusions: The torque variations make the radial drift of the protoplanet oscillatory, consisting of short intervals of alternating rapid inward and outward migration. We speculate that transitions between the positive and oscillatory heating torque may occur in specific disk regions susceptible to vertical convection, resulting in the convergent migration of multiple planetary embryos.
Keywords: Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, hydrodynamics, planet-disk interactions, planets and satellites: formation, protoplanetary disks
Authors Chrenko, Ondřej
Lambrechts, Michiel
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