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astro-ph2004
The Thermal Regulation of Gravitational Instabilities in Disks Around Young Stars
Annie C. Mejia
Gravitational instabilities (GIs) are spiral distortions in a self-gravitating disk that appear wherever the local surface density and temperature become favorable for their growth…
astro-ph2003
A Possible Hybrid Scenario for Gas Giant Planet Formation in Rings
Richard H. Durisen, Kai Cai, Annie C. Mejia +1
The core-accretion mechanism for gas giant formation may be too slow to create all observed gas giant planets during reasonable gas disk lifetimes, but it has yet to be firmly esta…