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Issue A&A Volume 433, Number 2, April II 2005 Page(s) L37 - L40 Section Letters DOI 10.1051/0004-6361:200500099

A&A 433, L37-L40 (2005)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:200500099

Letter

How does disk gravity really influence type-I migration?

A. Pierens¹ and J.-M. Huré<sup>1, 2

1</sup>  LUTh, CNRS UMR 8102, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, Place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon Cedex, France
    e-mail: arnaud.pierens@abspm.fr
²  Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, 2 Place Jussieu, 75251 Paris Cedex 05, France

(Received 17 December 2004 / Accepted 18 February 2005)

Abstract
We report an analytical expression for the locations of Lindblad resonances induced by a perturbing protoplanet, including the effect of disk gravity. Inner, outer and differential torques are found to be enhanced compared to situations where a keplerian velocity field for the dynamics of both the disk and the planet is assumed. Inward migration is strongly accelerated when the disk gravity is only accounted for in the planet orbital motion. The addition of disk self-gravity slows down the planet drift but not enough to stop it.

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