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Migration of Gas Giant Planets in Gravitationally Unstable Disks

  • Authors: Scott Michael, Richard H. Durisen, and Aaron C. Boley

Michael, Durisen, & Boley 2011 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 737 L42.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

Plot of the planet's radial position as a function of time piv p ( t) for the two planet simulations. The dashed-diamond and solid-star lines (colored red and black in the online version) indicate the curves ( piv( t)), points ( a), and horizontal scales ( t) that correspond to the t = 0 and t = 10 planet runs, respectively. The symbols are the approximate semi-major axes a computed for each 0 to 2ϕ change in azimuth of the planet as explained in the text.

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