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Disc Modes and Orbital Eccentricity Growth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

John C.B. Papaloizou
John C.B. Papaloizou*
Affiliation:
Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary & Westfield College, Mile End Rd, London El 4NS, UK

Abstract

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An eccentric protoplanetary gaseous disc provides a slowly precessing non axisymmetric mass distribution. As a result of self-gravity, the precession frequency may resonate with that of a near circular protoplanet orbit within an inner cavity. A large eccentricity might then be produced.

Type
Part II: Progress in the theory of planet formation
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 202: Planetary Systems in the Universe – Observation, Formation and Evolution , 2004 , pp. 232 - 234
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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