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A&A
Volume 688, August 2024
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Article Number | L6 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | Letters to the Editor | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202451317 | |
Published online | 01 August 2024 |
Letter to the Editor
Searching for the grand tack in exoplanetary data
Universitäts-Sternwarte München, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Scheinerstr. 1, 81679 München, Germany
e-mail: A.Cridland@lmu.de
Received:
1
July
2024
Accepted:
15
July
2024
The grand tack model, more generally called the Masset and Snellgrove mechanism, is a planetary migration model whereby two giant planets via interactions with their natal disk migrated to larger orbital radii. While its relevance in our own Solar System remains in question, the fact that the Masset and Snellgrove mechanism is a general hydrodynamical effect implies that it may have occurred in another planetary system. In this study I searched through exoplanet data for evidence of the Masset and Snellgrove mechanism, which requires that (1) the inner of the two planets is more massive than the outer planet; (2) the planets are sufficiently massive that their gravity-induced gap overlaps; and (3) they orbit at sufficiently close radii that their co-rotation regions also overlap. The last two requirements are met when the planets orbit with a 3:2 mean motion resonance. I do not find conclusive evidence for a grand tack-like system, but find some evidence for planet formation at the edge of a planet-induced protoplanetary disk gap in three systems.
Key words: planets and satellites: formation / planet-disk interactions
© The Authors 2024
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