The Effect of Sculpting Planets on the Steepness of Debris-disc Inner Edges

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dc.citation.issue2
dc.citation.rankM21
dc.citation.spage3876
dc.citation.volume527
dc.contributor.authorPearce, Tim
dc.contributor.authorKrivov, Alexander
dc.contributor.authorSefilian, Antranik
dc.contributor.authorJanković, Marija
dc.contributor.authorLöhne, Torsten
dc.contributor.authorMorgner, Tobias
dc.contributor.authorWyatt, Mark
dc.contributor.authorBooth, Mark
dc.contributor.authorMarino, Sebastian
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-10T13:34:08Z
dc.date.available2024-06-10T13:34:08Z
dc.date.issued2024-01-01
dc.description.abstractDebris discs are our best means to probe the outer regions of planetary systems. Many studies assume that planets lie at the inner edges of debris discs, akin to Neptune and the Kuiper Belt, and use the disc morphologies to constrain those otherwise-undetectable planets. However, this produces a degeneracy in planet mass and semimajor axis. We investigate the effect of a sculpting planet on the radial surface-density profile at the disc inner edge, and show that this degeneracy can be broken by considering the steepness of the edge profile. Like previous studies, we show that a planet on a circular orbit ejects unstable debris and excites surviving material through mean-motion resonances. For a non-migrating, circular-orbit planet, in the case where collisions are negligible, the steepness of the disc inner edge depends on the planet-to-star mass ratio and the initial-disc excitation level. We provide a simple analytic model to infer planet properties from the steepness of ALMA-resolved disc edges. We also perform a collisional analysis, showing that a purely planet-sculpted disc would be distinguishable from a purely collisional disc and that, whilst collisions flatten planet-sculpted edges, they are unlikely to fully erase a planet’s signature. Finally, we apply our results to ALMA-resolved debris discs and show that, whilst many inner edges are too steep to be explained by collisions alone, they are too flat to arise through completed sculpting by non-migrating, circular-orbit planets. We discuss implications of this for the architectures, histories, and dynamics in the outer regions of planetary systems.
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/mnras/stad3462
dc.identifier.issn0035-8711
dc.identifier.issn1365-2966
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85179003173
dc.identifier.urihttps://pub.ipb.ac.rs/handle/123456789/62
dc.identifier.wos001112824700052
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherOxford University Press (OUP)
dc.relation.ispartofMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
dc.relation.ispartofabbrMon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.
dc.rightsopenAccess
dc.titleThe Effect of Sculpting Planets on the Steepness of Debris-disc Inner Edges
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
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