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Is the ring inside or outside the planet?: The effect of planet migration on dust rings

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Meru, Farzana 
Rosotti, Giovanni P 
Booth, Richard A 
Nazari, Pooneh 
Clarke, Cathie J 

Abstract

Planet migration in protoplanetary discs plays an important role in the longer term evolution of planetary systems, yet we currently have no direct observational test to determine if a planet is migrating in its gaseous disc. We explore the formation and evolution of dust rings { now commonly observed in protoplanetary discs by ALMA { in the presence of relatively low mass (12-60 M) migrating planets. Through two dimensional hydrodynamical simulations using gas and dust we find that the importance of perturbations in the pressure profile interior and exterior to the planet varies for different particle sizes. For small sizes a dust enhancement occurs interior to the planet, whereas it is exterior to it for large particles. The transition between these two behaviours happens when the dust drift velocity is comparable to the planet migration velocity. We predict that an observational signature of a migrating planet consists of a significant outwards shift of an observed midplane dust ring as the wavelength is increased.

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methods: numerical, planets and satellites: dynamical evolution and stability, planets and satellites: formation, planet-disc interactions, protoplanetary discs

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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1365-2966
1365-2966

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Oxford University Press
Sponsorship
European Research Council (341137)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/H008586/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/J005673/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/K00333X/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/M007065/1)
STFC (ST/M007073/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/R00689X/1)
STFC (ST/T001550/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/N000927/1)
FM acknowledges support from The Leverhulme Trust, the Isaac Newton Trust and the Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship. GR, RB and CC are supported by the DISC- SIM project, grant agreement 341137 funded by the European Research Council under ERC-2013-ADG.