Super-Earth masses sculpted by pebble isolation around stars of different masses

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We developed a pebble-driven core accretion model to study the formation and evolution of planets around stars in the stellar mass range of 0.08 M-1 M. By Monte Carlo sampling of the initial conditions, the growth and migration of a large number of individual protoplanetary embryos were simulated in a population synthesis manner. We tested two hypotheses for the birth locations of embryos: at the water ice line or log-uniformly distributed over entire protoplanetary disks. Two types of disks with different turbulent viscous parameters αt of 10-3 and 10-4 are also investigated to shed light on the role of outward migration of protoplanets. The forming planets are compared with the observed exoplanets in terms of mass, semimajor axis, metallicity, and water content. We find that gas giant planets are likely to form when the characteristic disk sizes are larger, the disk accretion rates are higher, the disks are more metal rich, and/or their stellar hosts are more massive. Our model shows that first, the characteristic mass of super-Earth is set by the pebble isolation mass. Super-Earth masses increase linearly with the mass of its stellar host, which corresponds to one Earth mass around a late M-dwarf star and 20 Earth masses around a solar-mass star. Second, the low-mass planets, up to 20 M, can form around stars with a wide range of metallicities, while massive gas giant planets are preferred to grow around metal rich stars. Third, super-Earth planets that are mainly composed of silicates, with relatively low water fractions, can form from protoplanetary embryos at the water ice line in weakly turbulent disks where outward migration is suppressed. However, if the embryos are formed over a wide range of radial distances, the super-Earths would end up having a distinctive, bimodal composition in water mass. Altogether, our model succeeds in quantitatively reproducing several important observed properties of exoplanets and correlations with their stellar hosts.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
ArtikelnummerA7
TidsskriftAstronomy and Astrophysics
Vol/bind632
Antal sider25
ISSN0004-6361
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2019
Eksternt udgivetJa

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Funding Information:
cA knolw edgements. We thank Chris Ormel, Gijs Mulders, Thomas Ronnet and Bertram Bitsch for useful discussions. We also thank the anonymous referee for their useful suggestions and comments. B.L. is supported by the European Research Council (ERC Consolidator Grant 724687-PLANETESYS) and the Swedish Walter Gyllenberg Foundation. M.L. is funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (Wallenberg Academy Fellow Grant 2012.0150). A.J. thanks the European Research Council (ERC Consolidator Grant 724687-PLANETESYS), the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (Wallenberg Academy Fellow Grant 2012.0150) and the Swedish Research Council (Project Grant 2018-04867) for research support. F.L. is supported by the grant “The New Milky Way” from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the grant 184/14 from the Swedish National Space Agency. The computations were performed on resources provided by the Swedish Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at the LUNARC-Centre in Lund.

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