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Photoevaporation and Disk Dispersal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2016

Uma Gorti
Uma Gorti*
Affiliation:
SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Protoplanetary disks are depleted of their mass on short timescales by viscous accretion, which removes both gas and solids, and by photoevaporation which removes mainly gas. Photoevaporation may facilitate planetesimal formation by lowering the gas/dust mass ratio in disks. Disk dispersal sets constraints on planet formation timescales, and by controlling the availability of gas determines the type of planets that form in the disk. Photoevaporative wind mass loss rates are theoretically estimated to range from ~ 10−10 to 10−8M⊙, and disk lifetimes are typically ~ few Myr.

Keywords

AccretionPlanetary systems: Protoplanetary DisksFormation
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 10 , Issue S314: Young Stars & Planets Near the Sun , November 2015 , pp. 153 - 158
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2016 

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