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Capture of Planetesimals by Gas Drag from Circumplanetary Disks

  • Authors: Tetsuya Fujita, Keiji Ohtsuki, Takayuki Tanigawa, and Ryo Suetsugu

Fujita et al. 2013 The Astronomical Journal 146 140.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Relationship between planetesimal radius and gas surface density in a circumplanetary disk for a given value of the non-dimensional gas drag parameter ζ. The cases with ζ = 10 −4, 3 × 10 −7, and 3 × 10 −9 are shown. Lower and upper horizontal axes show the gas surface density at r = r d (the radial location roughly corresponding to the size of the circumplanetary disk and assumed to be 0.2 r H ) and r = 10 −2 r H (the vicinity of the radial locations of the Galilean satellites), respectively ( C D = 1 and ρ s = 1 g cm −3). Since we assume Σ∝ r −3/2, Σ(10 −2 r H )/Σ d = 20 1.5 ≈ 89.

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