| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 16, 2011
Research, Science and Technology of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets: Proceedings of an International Conference held in Shangai on Occasion of a Total Eclipse of the Sun
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| Article Number | 05007 | |
| Number of page(s) | 3 | |
| Section | Brown Dwarf and Planet Formation | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20111605007 | |
| Published online | 18 July 2011 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20111605007
Kozai effect on planetesimal accretion in highly inclined binaries
1 Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
2 UCO/Lick Observatory, University of California
3 KIAA, Peking University
a e-mail: zhaog@nju.edu.cn
Planet formation in highly inclined binaries is a complex issue. The Kozai mechanism plays an important role in this situation, since it will lead to high eccentricity and high relative impact velocity of planetesimals, thus hinder the planetesimal accretion. However, as we will show here, the presence of gas disk in some circumstance will suppress the Kozai effect by increasing the apsidal precession rate of the planetesimals, which increases the critical inclination. A criterion of the disk mass above which Kozai effect will not occur is given.
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