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The Heavy-element Content Trend of Planets: A Tracer of Their Formation Sites

  • Authors: Yasuhiro Hasegawa, Bradley M. S. Hansen, and Gautam Vasisht

2019 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 876 L32.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Gas accretion rates and the resulting timescales as a function of planet mass in the left and right panels, respectively. The case where ﹩{r}_{p}=10\,\mathrm{au}﹩ is considered here. In the left panel, ﹩{\dot{M}}_{{\rm{d}}}﹩ is denoted by the horizontal, black line for reference. The minimum value of ﹩{\dot{M}}_{p}﹩ is denoted by the thick gray line. In the right panel, gas accretion timescales are computed by ﹩{\tau }_{p}={M}_{p}/{\dot{M}}_{p}﹩.

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