Planetary Science Seminar spring-2019
Accretion and Final Mass of Gas Giants
May 31, 2019,
noon - 1 p.m.
Slichter 3853
Presented By:
Sivan Ginzburg
Berkeley
What set the mass of the gas giants? One option is that their gas accretion was regulated by a gap (annular density cavity) in the solar nebula. I will revisit this idea using modern gap-opening theory, and show how the mass of Jupiter emerges as a natural scale.