Schoettler, C. and Parker, R.J. (2021) Double trouble: Gaia reveals (proto)planetary systems that may experience more than one dense star-forming environment. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 501 (1). L12-L17. ISSN 1745-3925
Abstract
Planetary systems appear to form contemporaneously around young stars within young star-forming regions. Within these environments, the chances of survival, as well as the long-term evolution of these systems, are influenced by factors such as dynamical interactions with other stars and photoevaporation from massive stars. These interactions can also cause young stars to be ejected from their birth regions and become runaways. We present examples of such runaway stars in the vicinity of the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) found in Gaia DR2 data that have retained their discs during the ejection process. Once set on their path, these runaways usually do not encounter any other dense regions that could endanger the survival of their discs or young planetary systems. However, we show that it is possible for star–disc systems, presumably ejected from one dense star-forming region, to encounter a second dense region, in our case the ONC. While the interactions of the ejected star–disc systems in the second region are unlikely to be the same as in their birth region, a second encounter will increase the risk to the disc or planetary system from malign external effects.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | accretion, accretion discs; planets and satellites: formation; circumstellar matter; stars: kinematics and dynamics; galaxies: star clusters: individual: Orion Nebula Cluster |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Physics and Astronomy (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Science and Technology Facilities Council 2024738 ROYAL SOCIETY DH150108 Royal Society 13178 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 05 Jan 2021 15:19 |
Last Modified: | 05 Jan 2021 22:19 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/mnrasl/slaa182 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:169633 |