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Radial migration of gap-opening planets in protoplanetary disks. I. The case of a single planet

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abstract

A large planet orbiting a star in a protoplanetary disk opens a density gap along its orbit due to the strong disk-planet interaction and migrates with the gap in the disk. It is expected that in the ideal case, a gap-opening planet migrates at the viscous drift speed, which is referred to as type II migration. However, recent hydrodynamic simulations have shown that in general, the gap-opening planet is not locked to the viscous disk evolution. A new physical model is required to explain the migration speed of such a planet. For this reason, we re-examined the migration of a planet in the disk, by carrying out the two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations in a wide parameter range. We have found that the torque exerted on the gap-opening planet depends on the surface density at the bottom of the gap. The planet migration slows down as the surface density of the bottom of the gap decreases. Using the gap model developed in our previous studies, we have constructed an empirical formula of the migration speed of the gap-opening planets, which is consistent with the results given by the hydrodynamic simulations performed by us and other researchers. Our model easily explains why the migration speed of the gap-opening planets can be faster than the viscous gas drift speed. It can also predict the planet mass at which the type I migration is no longer adequate due to the gap development in the disk, providing a gap formation criterion based on planetary migration.

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2026 3

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Accretion of Primordial Black Holes in Stellar Interiors

astro-ph.HE · 2026-06-01 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Self-consistent spherical accretion simulations show cooling-enhanced growth of PBHs with radiative efficiency ~10^{-2} in the bremsstrahlung regime, yielding a critical seed mass of ~10^{-16} M_sun to consume a solar-mass star in a Hubble time.

Substructures in Planet-Forming Disks with the SKAO

astro-ph.EP · 2026-06-24 · unverdicted · novelty 2.0 · 2 refs

This review chapter discusses open questions on protoplanetary disk substructures and how SKA-Mid continuum observations at 12.5 GHz can help resolve them.

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  • Accretion of Primordial Black Holes in Stellar Interiors astro-ph.HE · 2026-06-01 · unverdicted · none · ref 213 · internal anchor

    Self-consistent spherical accretion simulations show cooling-enhanced growth of PBHs with radiative efficiency ~10^{-2} in the bremsstrahlung regime, yielding a critical seed mass of ~10^{-16} M_sun to consume a solar-mass star in a Hubble time.

  • AGN-driven BBH mergers: Black hole populations and hierarchical growth across the AGN parameter space astro-ph.GA · 2026-06-09 · unverdicted · none · ref 254 · internal anchor

    Semi-analytical models show AGN disks produce repeated BBH mergers with a high-mass tail beyond the pair-instability gap, more efficiently at low viscosity, with spin and mass-ratio signatures that can match events like GW190521.

  • Substructures in Planet-Forming Disks with the SKAO astro-ph.EP · 2026-06-24 · unverdicted · none · ref 25 · 2 links · internal anchor

    This review chapter discusses open questions on protoplanetary disk substructures and how SKA-Mid continuum observations at 12.5 GHz can help resolve them.