Migration Of Bodies In The Proxima Centauri and Trappist 1 Planetary Systems
The motion of planetesimals was studied in the Proxima Centauri and TRAPPIST 1 exoplanetary systems.
The size of the feeding zone of planet Proxima Centauri c is discussed. It was noted that after hundreds of Myrs, some planetesimals could still move in elliptical resonant orbits inside the feeding zone of this planet that had been mainly cleared from planetesimals.
The probability of a collision of a planetesimal initially located in the feeding zone of planet c with inner planet b was obtained to be about 0.0002 and 0.001 at initial eccentricity of orbits of planetesimals equal to 0.02 or 0.15, respectively. A lot of icy material and volatiles could be delivered from the icy zone near the orbit of planet c to inner planets b and d.
The inclinations of orbits of 80% of the planetesimals that moved between 500 or 1200 AU from the star did not exceed 10o. It was obtained that several planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system accumulated planetesimals initially located at the same distance. Outer layers of neighbouring TRAPPIST-1 planets can include similar material.
S.I. Ipatov
Comments: Proc. IAU Symposium 393 “Planetary Science and Exoplanets in the Era of the James Webb Space Telescope” (August 13-15, 2024, Cape Town, South Africa). 5 pages, in press
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
Cite as: arXiv:2411.05954 [astro-ph.EP] (or arXiv:2411.05954v1 [astro-ph.EP] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.05954
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