A Systematic Study of the Final Masses of Gas Giant Planets
A Systematic Study of the Final Masses of Gas Giant Planets
We construct an analytic model for the rate of gas accretion onto a planet embedded in a protoplanetary disk as a function of planetary mass, disk viscosity, disk scale height, and unperturbed surface density in order to study the long-term accretion and final masses of gas giant planets. We first …