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Planet Migration Around Young Magnetized Stars

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Author
Comins, Megan
Abstract

We investigate the migration of low-mass planets (5M⊕ and 20M⊕ ) in accretion disks threaded with a magnetic field using a 2D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code in polar coordinates. We observed that, in the case of a strong azimuthal magnetic field where the plasma parameter is [beta] ~ 1 [-] 2, density waves at the magnetic resonances exert a positive torque on the planet and may slow down or reverse its migration. However, when the magnetic field is weaker (i.e., the plasma parameter [beta] is relatively large), then non-axisymmetric density waves excited by the planet lead to growth of the radial component of the field and, subsequently, to development of the magneto-rotational instability, such that the disk becomes turbulent. Migration in a turbulent disk is stochastic, and the migration direction may change as such. To understand migration in a turbulent disk, both the interaction between a planet and individual turbulent cells, as well as the interaction between a planet and ordered density waves, have been investigated.

Date Issued
2015-08-17
Keywords
Planet migration
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Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations
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Magnetic fields
Committee Chair
Lovelace,Richard V E
Committee Member
Marschner,Stephen Robert
Romanova,Maria V
Nicholson,Philip David
Degree Discipline
Astronomy
Degree Name
Ph. D., Astronomy
Degree Level
Doctor of Philosophy
Type
dissertation or thesis

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