28 October 2016
Temperature is the key to showing how gas giants form say researchers
... mass as Saturn instead of some Jupiter masses.” Despite these positive results, challenges still remain. Simulations of disk instability still do not cover a long enough timescale and it is possible that after the protoplanet has collapsed to the...
February 2016
How to Build Planets
...’t see any of these features. We saw a well-defined, almost symmetric disk made of concentric rings,” says Hales. If disc instability is not the cause of the cavities in HL Tau, then perhaps the gaps are the result of a self-induced...
