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Jupiter's heavy-element enrichment expected from formation models

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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 634, Issue -, Pages -

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EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936591

Keywords

planets and satellites: gaseous planets; planets and satellites: composition; planets and satellites: formation

Funding

  1. Swiss National Foundation
  2. SNSF [200021_169054]
  3. Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [200021_169054] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)

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Aims. The goal of this work is to investigate Jupiter's growth by focusing on the amount of heavy elements accreted by the planet, and to compare this with recent structure models of Jupiter. Methods. Our model assumes an initial core growth dominated by pebble accretion, and a second growth phase that is characterised by a moderate accretion of both planetesimals and gas. The third phase is dominated by runaway gas accretion during which the planet becomes detached from the disc. The second and third phases were computed in detail, considering two different prescriptions for the planetesimal accretion and fits from hydrodynamical studies to compute the gas accretion in the detached phase. Results. In order for Jupiter to consist of similar to 20-40 M-circle plus of heavy elements as suggested by structure models, we find that Jupiter's formation location is preferably at an orbital distance of 1 less than or similar to a less than or similar to 10 au once the accretion of planetesimals dominates. We find that Jupiter could accrete between similar to 1 and similar to 15 M-circle plus of heavy elements during runaway gas accretion, depending on the assumed initial surface density of planetesimals and the prescription used to estimate the heavy-element accretion during the final stage of the planetary formation. This would yield an envelope metallicity of similar to 0.5 to similar to 3 times solar. By computing the solid (heavy-element) accretion during the detached phase, we infer a planetary mass-metallicity (M-P-M-Z) relation of M-Z similar to M-P(2/5), when a gap in the planetesimal disc is created, and of M-Z similar to M-P(1/6) without a planetesimal gap. Conclusions. Our hybrid pebble-planetesimal model can account for Jupiter's bulk and atmospheric enrichment. The high bulk metallicity inferred for many giant exoplanets is difficult to explain from standard formation models. This might suggest a migration history for such highly enriched giant exoplanets and/or giant impacts after the disc's dispersal.

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