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The Azimuthal Distribution of Dust Particles in an Eccentric Protoplanetary Disk with an Embedded Gas Giant Planet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2014

Pin-Gao Gu
Affiliation:
Instituter of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan email: gu@asiaa.sinica.edu.tw
He-Feng Hsieh
Affiliation:
Instituter of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan email: gu@asiaa.sinica.edu.tw
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Abstract

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We investigate the dust velocity and spatial distribution in an eccentric protoplanetary disk under the secular gravitational perturbation of an embedded planet of about 5 Jupiter masses. We first employ the FARGO code to obtain the two-dimensional density and velocity profiles of the gas disk with the embedded planet in the quasi-steady state. We then apply the secular perturbation theory and incorporate the gas drag to estimate the dust velocity on the secular timescale. The dust-to-gas ratio of the unperturbed disk is simply assumed to be 0.01. In our fiducial disk model with the planet at 5 AU, we find that for 0.01 cm– to 1 m–sized dust particles well coupled to the gas, the dust behaves similarly to the gas and exhibits non-axisymmetric dynamics as a result of eccentric orbits. However, for the case of a low-density gaseous disk (termed “transition disk” henceforth in this article) harboring the planet at 100 AU, the azimuthal distributions of dust of various sizes can deviate significantly.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2014 

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