Abstract
The recent high spatial/spectral resolution observations have enabled
constraining formation mechanisms of giant planets, especially at the
final stages. The current interpretation of such observations is that
these planets undergo magnetospheric accretion, suggesting the
importance of planetary magnetic fields. We explore the properties of
accreting, magnetized giant planets surrounded by their circumplanetary
disks, using the physical parameters inferred for PDS 70 b/c. We compute
the magnetic field strength and the resulting spin rate of giant
planets, and find that these planets may possess magnetic dipole fields
of either a few 10 G or a few 100 G; the former is the natural outcome
of planetary growth and radius evolution, while the resulting spin rate
cannot reproduce the observations. For the latter, a consistent picture
can be drawn, where strong magnetic fields induced by hot planetary
interiors, lead both to magnetospheric accretion and to spin-down due to
disk locking. We also compute the properties of circumplanetary disks in
the vicinity of these planets, taking into account planetary magnetic
fields. The resulting surface density lies between the predictions of
two empirically derived models of circumplanetary disks:the minimum mass
subnebula model and the gas-starved model. Our model predicts a positive
gradient of the surface density, which invokes the traps for both
satellite migration and radially drifting dust particles. This work thus
concludes that the final formation stages of giant planets are similar
to those of low-mass stars such as brown dwarfs, as suggested by recent
studies.