Planet population synthesis: The role of stellar encounters
Depending on the stellar densities, protoplanetary discs in stellar clusters undergo: background heating; disc truncation-driven by stellar encounter; and photoevaporation. Disc truncation leads to reduced characteristic sizes and disc masses that eventually halt gas giant planet formation. We inves...
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Oxford University Press
2022
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