Issue |
A&A
Volume 646, February 2021
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Article Number | A169 | |
Number of page(s) | 15 | |
Section | Planets and planetary systems | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039658 | |
Published online | 25 February 2021 |
Giant planet migration during the disc dispersal phase
1
Universitäts-Sternwarte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,
Scheinerstr. 1,
81679
München,
Germany
e-mail: monsch@usm.lmu.de
2
Exzellenzcluster ‘Origins’,
Boltzmannstr. 2,
85748
Garching, Germany
3
Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Universität Tübingen,
Auf der Morgenstelle 10,
72076
Tübingen, Germany
e-mail: wilhelm.kley@uni-tuebingen.de
Received:
12
October
2020
Accepted:
28
December
2020
Context. Transition discs are expected to be a natural outcome of the interplay between photoevaporation and giant planet formation. Massive planets reduce the inflow of material from the outer to the inner disc, therefore triggering an earlier onset of disc dispersal due to photoevaporation through a process known as Planet-Induced PhotoEvaporation. In this case, a cavity is formed as material inside the planetary orbit is removed by photoevaporation, leaving only the outer disc to drive the migration of the giant planet.
Aims. We investigate the impact of photoevaporation on giant planet migration and focus specifically on the case of transition discs with an evacuated cavity inside the planet location. This is important for determining under what circumstances photoevaporation is efficient at halting the migration of giant planets, thus affecting the final orbital distribution of a population of planets.
Methods. For this purpose, we use 2D FARGO simulations to model the migration of giant planets in a range of primordial and transition discs subject to photoevaporation. The results are then compared to the standard prescriptions used to calculate the migration tracks of planets in 1D planet population synthesis models.
Results. The FARGO simulations show that once the disc inside the planet location is depleted of gas, planet migration ceases. This contradicts the results obtained by the impulse approximation, which predicts the accelerated inward migration of planets in discs that have been cleared inside the planetary orbit.
Conclusions. These results suggest that the impulse approximation may not be suitable for planets embedded in transition discs. A better approximation that could be used in 1D models would involve halting planet migration once the material inside the planetary orbit is depleted of gas and the surface density at the 3:2 mean motion resonance location in the outer disc reaches a threshold value of 0.01 g cm‒2.
Key words: protoplanetary disks / planet–disk interactions / planets and satellites: gaseous planets / X-rays: stars / methods: numerical
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