Dust growth can reduce disc opacity enough to allow gravitational instability fragmentation at ~30 au, producing gas-giant-mass fragments rather than brown dwarfs.
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Dust growth and planet formation by disc fragmentation
Dust growth can reduce disc opacity enough to allow gravitational instability fragmentation at ~30 au, producing gas-giant-mass fragments rather than brown dwarfs.