Type II Migration: Varying Planet Mass and Disc Viscosity
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This paper continues an earlier study of giant planet migration, examining the effect of planet mass and disc viscosity on the migration rate. We find that the migration rate of a gap-opening planet varies systematically with the planet’s mass, as predicted in our earlier work. However, the variation with disc viscosity appears to be much weaker than expected.
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