SPH Simulations of Protoplanetary Perturbers in Gas Disks

S.T.Maddison & P.Barge

Abstract

We use Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) to numerically investigate gap clearing around a protoplanetary body in a self-gravitating gaseous disk. It has been suggested that proto-Jupiter regulated it's own growth by clearing a gap around itself and thus halting accretion.

smaddison@swin.edu.au
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