Planet orbits and their correlation with the characteristics of protoplanetary disks.

• Grant number: 12/02823-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: May 01, 2012
• End date: February 28, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy
• Principal Investigator: Adriana Benetti Marques Valio
• Grantee: Luiz Henrique Guimarães dos Santos
• Host Institution: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE). São José dos Campos , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 06/50654-3 - Investigation of high energy and plasma astrophysics phenomena: theory, observation, and numerical simulations, AP.TEM

Abstract

In this project we plan to investigate the formation, planetary mass and orbit and how these correlate with the physical properties of the proto-planetary disk. The computational analysisis performed with the code FARGO, a hydrodynamic simulation. The goal is to compare the results with the planetary parameters already available from the CoRoT and the Kepler missions. A critical study of the properties of exoplanets already discovered will be carried out taking into account the processes of migration, braking, and stability of the orbits.