INTERACTION BETWEEN GIANT GASEOUS PROTOPLANETS AND THE PRIMITIVE SOLAR NEBULA

被引:11
作者
CAMERON, AGW
机构
[1] Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.
来源
MOON AND THE PLANETS | 1979年 / 21卷 / 02期
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D O I
10.1007/BF00897086
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The manner in which a giant gaseous protoplanet becomes embedded in the primitive solar nebula determines surface boundary conditions which must be used in studying the evolution of such objects. On the one hand, if the system resembles a contact binary system, then the envelope of the protoplanet should approach the entropy of the surrounding nebula. On the other hand angular. momentum transfer by resonance and tidal effects between the nebula and the protoplanet may cause the nebula to exhibit a zone of avoidance near the protoplanet, thus inhibiting exchange of material. This problem has been studied with a computer program developed by D. N. C. Lin which simulates disk hydrodynamics by particle motions with dissipation. These studies suggest that for expected values of the protoplanet/protosun mass ratios, significant inhibition of mass exchange is likely, so that it is a reasonable next step to undertake protoplanet evolution studies with the imposition of minimum protoplanet surface temperatures. © 1979 D. Reidel Publishing Co.
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页码:173 / 183
页数:11
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