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A metallicity sweet spot for disc fragmentation and planet formation
Ethan J. Carter, Dimitris Stamatellos, George Blaylock-Squibbs +2
Fragmentation of gravitationally unstable discs offers an alternate formation mechanism for gas giant planets and brown dwarfs on wide orbits. Metallicity plays a key role in disc…
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Revisiting gravitational instability in protostellar discs with improved radiative cooling models
Alison K. Young, Ken Rice, Richard Booth +1
Young discs are expected to be significantly more massive than those observed at Myr and it is at this earliest stage that planet formation likely begins. Such massive discs m…