observing planet formation

Please feel free to use the exoplanet/protoplanet demographics plots below where I compiled from literature estimated planet mass and semi-major axis to explain various observed disk substructures. These plots are (significantly) updated from Figure 1 of Bae et al. (2018). The exoplanet data is taken from the NASA exoplanet archive.

The data used to make the plots are available in this GitHub repository: https://github.com/jaehbae/Protoplanet-demographics-data

The main point here is that the current exoplanet and protoplanetary disk observations probe different regions in the mass – semi-major axis parameter space, with some overlap for cold giant planets at large separation (>~10 AU). One interesting question to ask is how these young protoplanets would evolve in the future, in terms of both their mass and orbit.

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