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There are two antithetic works on the formation stage of giant planets. Bodenheimer and Pollack (1986) showed with numerical calculation that giant planets are formed through quasi-static contraction of massive envelopes. On the other hand, Wuchterl (1991) obtained the results that giant planets should undergo a dynamical phase and cannot have massive envelopes like the present Jupiter and Saturn because dynamical oscillation would eject envelope mass.
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Tajima, N., Nakagawa, Y. (1995). Giant Planet Formation. In: Chahine, M.T., A’Hearn, M.F., Rahe, J., Solomon, P., Nickle, N.L. (eds) Comparative Planetology with an Earth Perspective. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1092-3_7
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