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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 597, Issue 1, Pages 566-580Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/378317
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planetary systems; planetary systems : protoplanetary disks; solar system : formation
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The observed orbits of extrasolar planets suggest that many giant planets migrate a considerable distance toward their parent star as a result of interactions with the protoplanetary disk and that some of these planets become trapped in eccentricity-exciting mean motion resonances with one another during this migration. Using three-dimensional numerical simulations, we find that as long as the timescale for damping of the planets' eccentricities by the disk is close to or longer than the disk-induced migration timescale and the outer planet is more than half the mass of the inner, resonant inclination excitation will also occur. Neither the addition of a ( simple, fixed) disk potential nor the introduction of a massive inner planetary system inhibit entry into the inclination resonance. Therefore, such a mechanism may not be uncommon in the early evolution of a planetary system, and a significant fraction of exoplanetary systemsmay turn out to be non-coplanar.
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