Abstract
We determine the torque exerted in a steady state by an external potential on a three-dimensional gaseous disk at a non-coorbital corotation resonance. Our model accounts for the feedback of the torque on the surface density and vorticity in the corotation region, and assumes that the disk has a barotropic equation of state and a nonzero effective viscosity. The ratio of the torque to the value given by the formula of Goldreich & Tremaine depends essentially on a single dimensionless parameter, which quantifies the extent to which the resonance is saturated. We discuss the implications for the eccentricity evolution of young planets.
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