Issue |
A&A
Volume 623, March 2019
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Article Number | A88 | |
Number of page(s) | 25 | |
Section | Planets and planetary systems | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834489 | |
Published online | 11 March 2019 |
Formation of planetary systems by pebble accretion and migration: growth of gas giants
1
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie,
Königstuhl 17,
69117
Heidelberg,
Germany
e-mail: bitsch@mpia.de
2
UNESP, Universidade Estadual Paulista – Grupo de Dinàmica Orbital Planetologia, Guaratinguetà,
CEP 12.516-410,
São Paulo,
Brazil
3
Lund Observatory, Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University,
22100
Lund,
Sweden
4
Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux, CNRS and Université de Bordeaux,
Allée Geoffroy St. Hilaire,
33165
Pessac,
France
5
University Nice-Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Laboratoire LAGRANGE,
CS 34229,
06304
Nice Cedex 4,
France
6
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University,
2145 Sheridan Road,
Evanston,
IL
60208-3130,
USA
Received:
22
October
2018
Accepted:
8
January
2019
Giant planets migrate though the protoplanetary disc as they grow their solid core and attract their gaseous envelope. Previously, we have studied the growth and migration of an isolated planet in an evolving disc. Here, we generalise such models to include the mutual gravitational interaction between a high number of growing planetary bodies. We have investigated how the formation of planetary systems depends on the radial flux of pebbles through the protoplanetary disc and on the planet migration rate. Our N-body simulations confirm previous findings that Jupiter-like planets in orbits outside the water ice line originate from embryos starting out at 20–40 AU when using nominal type-I and type-II migration rates and a pebble flux of approximately 100–200 Earth masses per million years, enough to grow Jupiter within the lifetime of the solar nebula. The planetary embryos placed up to 30 AU migrate into the inner system (rP < 1AU). There they form super-Earths or hot and warm gas giants, producing systems that are inconsistent with the configuration of the solar system, but consistent with some exoplanetary systems. We also explored slower migration rates which allow the formation of gas giants from embryos originating from the 5–10 AU region, which are stranded exterior to 1 AU at the end of the gas-disc phase. These giant planets can also form in discs with lower pebbles fluxes (50–100 Earth masses per Myr). We identify a pebble flux threshold below which migration dominates and moves the planetary core to the inner disc, where the pebble isolation mass is too low for the planet to accrete gas efficiently. In our model, giant planet growth requires a sufficiently high pebble flux to enable growth to out-compete migration. An even higher pebble flux produces systems with multiple gas giants. We show that planetary embryos starting interior to 5 AU do not grow into gas giants, even if migration is slow and the pebble flux is large. These embryos instead grow to just a few Earth masses, the mass regime of super-Earths. This stunted growth is caused by the low pebble isolation mass in the inner disc and is therefore independent of the pebble flux. Additionally, we show that the long-term evolution of our formed planetary systems can naturally produce systems with inner super-Earths and outer gas giants as well as systems of giant planets on very eccentric orbits.
Key words: accretion, accretion discs / planets and satellites: formation / protoplanetary discs / planet-disc interactions
© B. Bitsch et al. 2019
Open Access article, published by EDP Sciences, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Open Access funding provided by Max Planck Society.
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