• DOI:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.06.029
Corpus ID: 118572605

Growth of Jupiter: Enhancement of core accretion by a voluminous low-mass envelope

@article{DAngelo2014GrowthOJ,
  title={Growth of Jupiter: Enhancement of core accretion by a voluminous low-mass envelope},
  author={G. D’Angelo and S. Weidenschilling and J. Lissauer and P. Bodenheimer},
  journal={Icarus},
  year={2014},
  volume={241},
  pages={298-312}
}

G. D’Angelo, S. Weidenschilling, +1 author P. Bodenheimer

Published 2014

Physics

Icarus

Abstract We present calculations of the early stages of the formation of Jupiter via core nucleated accretion and gas capture. The core begins as a seed body of about 350 km in radius and orbits in a swarm of planetesimals whose initial radii range from 15 m to 50 km. The evolution of the swarm accounts for growth and fragmentation, viscous and gravitational stirring, and for drag-assisted migration and velocity damping. During this evolution, less than 9% of the mass is in planetesimals… CONTINUE READING

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