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Radial Gradients in Dust-to-gas Ratio Lead to Preferred Region for Giant Planet Formation

  • Authors: Yayaati Chachan, Eve J. Lee, and Heather A. Knutson

2021 The Astrophysical Journal 919 63.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 12.

The GCR at t = 1 Myr for a 15 M core as a function of distance from the star, assuming the core starts accreting at t0 = 0.1 Myr. Here we vary the height zϵ from which gas is accreted by the planet. A GCR of 0.48 is marked with a dashed gray line, indicating the threshold for the onset of runaway gas accretion (Lee et al. 2014). The water-ice line is marked with blue triangles.

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