TO COOL IS TO ACCRETE: ANALYTIC SCALINGS FOR NEBULAR ACCRETION OF PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES

ABSTRACT Planets acquire atmospheres from their parent circumstellar disks. We derive a general analytic expression for how the atmospheric mass grows with time t as a function of the underlying core mass and nebular conditions, including the gas metallicity Z. Planets accrete as much gas as can coo...

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