Slowly-growing gap-opening planets trigger weaker vortices

Slowly-growing gap-opening planets trigger weaker vortices

The presence of a giant planet in a low-viscosity disc can create a gap edge in the disc's radial density profile sharp enough to excite the Rossby wave instability. This instability may evolve into dust-trapping vortices that might explain the `banana-shaped' features in recently observed...

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Main Authors: Hammer, Michael, Kratter, Kaitlin M., Lin, Min-Kai
Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Steward Observ
Language:en
Published: OXFORD UNIV PRESS 2017
Subjects:
hydrodynamics
instabilities
methods: numerical
planet
disc interactions
protoplanetary discs
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623939
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/623939

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http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623939
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/623939

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