2016ApJ...823..162L -
Astrophys. J., 823, 162 (2016/June-1)
Migration and growth of protoplanetary embryos. III. Mass and metallicity dependence for FGKM main-sequence stars.
LIU B., ZHANG X. and LIN D.N.C.
Abstract (from CDS):
Radial velocity and transit surveys have found that the fraction of FGKM stars with close-in super-Earth(s) (η⊕) is around 30%-50%, independent of the stellar mass M* and metallicity Z*. In contrast, the fraction of solar-type stars harboring one or more gas giants (ηJ) with masses Mp > 100 M⊕ is nearly 10%-15%, and it appears to increase with both M* and Z*. Regardless of the properties of their host stars, the total mass of some multiple super-Earths systems exceeds the core mass of Jupiter and Saturn. We suggest that both super-Earths and supercritical cores of gas giants were assembled from a population of embryos that underwent convergent type I migration from their birthplaces to a transition location between viscously heated and irradiation-heated disk regions. We attribute the cause for the η⊕-ηJ dichotomy to conditions required for embryos to merge and to acquire supercritical core mass ( {M}_{c}∼10 {M}_⊕ ) for the onset of efficient gaseous envelope accretion. We translate this condition into a critical disk accretion rate, and our analysis and simulation results show that it weakly depends on M* and decreases with metallicity of disk gas Zd. We find that embryos are more likely to merge into supercritical cores around relatively massive and metal-rich stars. This dependence accounts for the observed ηJ-M*. We also consider the {Z}{°}–{Z}{*} dispersed relationship and reproduce the observed ηJ-Z* correlation.
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methods: numerical - planetary systems - planet-disk interactions
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