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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 9.

Comparison of the Rosseland mean opacity per gram of dust, dust-to-gas ratio ϵ, and Rosseland mean opacity per gram of protoplanetary disk material κR for our fiducial 2D disk-integrated model and 3D disk model after 1 Myr of evolution. We plot the values of these quantities in the disk midplane (z = 0), a single gas scale height above the midplane (z = Hgas), and at heights of a 15 M planet’s RHill and min(RHill, RBondi) above the midplane. The water-ice line is marked with blue triangles.

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