scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

Gas flow in the solar nebula leading to the formation of Jupiter

Minoru Sekiya, +2 more
- 01 Sep 1987 - 
- Vol. 39, Iss: 1, pp 1-15
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this article, a smoothed-particle method was used to calculate the three-dimensional gas flow in the solar nebula, which is subject to the gravity of the Sun and proto-Jupiter, numerically calculated by using a 3D hydrodynamic code.
Abstract
Three-dimensional gas flow in the solar nebula, which is subject to the gravity of the Sun and proto-Jupiter, is numerically calculated by using a three-dimensional hydrodynamic code - i.e., the socalled smoothed-particle method. The flow is circulating around the Sun as well as falling into a potential well of proto-Jupiter. The results for various masses of proto-Jupiter show that (1) the e-folding growth time of proto-Jupiter by accretion of the nebular gas is as short as about 300 years in stages where the mass of proto-Jupiter is 0.2 ~ 0.5 times the present Jovian mass, and that (2) proto-Jupiter begins to push away the nebular gas from the orbit of proto-Jupiter and form a gap around the orbit, when its mass is about 0.7 times the present Jovian mass. It is possible that this pushing-away process determined the present Jovian mass.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Distribution of accreting gas and angular momentum onto circumplanetary disks

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate gas accretion flow onto a circumplanetary disk from a protoplanetary disk in detail by using high-resolution three-dimensional nested-grid hydrodynamic simulations, in order to provide a basis of formation processes of satellites around giant planets.
Journal ArticleDOI

Angular Momentum Accretion onto a Gas Giant Planet

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the acceleration of angular momentum onto a protoplanet system using three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations and find that the gas flows onto the protoplanets in the vertical direction, crossing the shock front near the Hill radius.

Distribution of Accreting Gas and Angular Momentum onto Circumplanetary Disks

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate gas accretion flow onto a circumplanetary disk from a protoplanetary disk in detail by using high-resolution three-dimensional nested-grid hydrodynamic simulations, in order to provide a basis of formation processes of satellites around giant planets.
Journal ArticleDOI

The effect of a planet on the dust distribution in a 3D protoplanetary disk

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the behavior of dust in protoplanetary disks under the action of gas drag in the presence of a planet and provided a framework for interpretation of coming observations and future studies of planetesimal growth.
Journal ArticleDOI

Why Does the Earth Spin Forward

TL;DR: Analytic arguments and extensive orbital integrations are used to calculate the expected distributions of spin rate and obliquity as a function of the planetesimal mass and velocity distributions, implying that the spins of the terrestrial planets are determined by stochastic accretion.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Disk-Satellite Interactions

TL;DR: In this article, the authors calculate the rate at which angular momentum and energy are transferred between a disk and a satellite which orbit the same central mass, and show that substantial changes in both the structure of the disk and the orbit of Jupiter must have taken place on a time scale of a few thousand years.
Journal ArticleDOI

Formation of the Giant Planets

TL;DR: In this paper, the structure of a gaseous envelope surrounding a protoplanet has been investigated in connection with the formation of the giant planets, and the most remarkable result is that a common relation between the core mass and the total mass holds irrespectively of the regions in the solar nebula.
Journal ArticleDOI

Interiors of the Giant Planets

TL;DR: In this article, the authors pointed out that the similarities between the giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) are superficial and revealed the individuality of these planets.
Journal ArticleDOI

On the tidal interaction between protoplanets and the primordial solar nebula. I - Linear calculation of the role of angular momentum exchange

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the situation when the surface density of the disk changes on a scale length comparable to its thickness in a gap region, of comparable dimensions, containing the protoplanet.
Related Papers (5)