Edward W. Thommes and Jack J. Lissauer 2003 ApJ 597 566 doi:10.1086/378317
Edward W. Thommes1 and Jack J. Lissauer2
Show affiliationsThe 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 systems may turn out to be non-coplanar.
planetary systems; planetary systems: protoplanetary disks; solar system: formation
Issue 1 (2003 November 1)
Received 2003 January 30, accepted for publication 2003 July 8
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