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Giant Planet Migration in Viscous Power-Law Discs
R. G. Edgar
Many extra-solar planets discovered over the past decade are gas giants in tight orbits around their host stars. Due to the difficulties of forming these `hot Jupiters' in situ, th…
astro-ph2006
An alternative approach to viscosity in an accretion disc
R. G. Edgar
Purely hydrodynamic numerical experiments into the evolution of astrophysical discs typically include some sort of viscosity in order to cause accretion. In this paper, we demonstr…