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You can find here images of our computer simulations, done with external pageParaView. You can freely use them with appropriate credit given listed at each plot. 

 

Circumplanetary disk
Figure 1. The circumplanetary disk around a 10 Jupiter-mass planet embedded in the circumstellar disk. Credit: Szulagyi 2017
Streamlines
Figure 2. Streamlines - gas accreting from the vertical direction down to the forming planet. Credit: Siri Dobler & Judit Szulagyi
Circumstellar disk
Figure 3. Circumstellar disk where a planet is forming. This is the gas density distribution (low density is blue, high density is brown color). The forming planet carved a gap in the circumstellar disk. Credit: Judit Szulagyi
temperature map
Figure 4. Temperature map

Figure 4 shows the Temperature color-map around a forming planet of 10 Jupiter-mass. The colorscale is logarithmic, and is given in Kelvin. Some streamlines of the accreting flow is shown with colors representing the velocity. The accreting flow creates a shock-front on the surface of the circumplanetary disk, which pops out with high temperatures (dark brown colors above and below the planet). Credit: Judit Szulagyi

moons
Figure 5. There are moons forming in a circumplanetary disk around a nascent planet. Creadit: Szulagyi et al. 2018
Circumstellar Disk Gas
Figure 6. The cut through the circumstellar disk gas density reveals the forming circumplanetary disk (butterfly pattern on the left side of the disk). Credit: Judit Szulagyi
Slicing Circumstellar Disks Gas
Figure 7. Slicing through the circumstellar disk gas density at the planet location. The butterfly pattern on the center of the image is the circumplanetary disk. Credit: Judit Szulagyi
Jupiter-mass planet formation sumulation
Figure 8. Jupiter-mass planet formation sumulation

Figure 8 depicts an A 3 Jupiter-mass planet formation simulation, where the gas density is shown. There is a circumplanetary disk around the nascent planet (orange colored butterfly pattern). This circumplanetary disk is a small disk within a big disk (circumstellar disk). Credit: Szulagyi et al. 2019

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