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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

Caption: Figure 12.

Values of non-dimensional gas drag parameter ζ for captured planetesimals at the end of orbital integration relative to initial value ζ 0, as a function of their minimum approach distance to the planet . (a) Case with , and (b) . Red and green points represent prograde and retrograde trajectories at , respectively.

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