Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-vdxz6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-25T23:27:25.743Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Dust Evolution in Protoplanetary Disks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2018

Thomas Henning
Affiliation:
Max Planck Society, Research Unit “Dust in Star-forming Regions”, Schillergäβchen 2-3, 07745 Jena, Germany
Wolfgang Schmitt
Affiliation:
Max Planck Society, Research Unit “Dust in Star-forming Regions”, Schillergäβchen 2-3, 07745 Jena, Germany
Hubert Klahr
Affiliation:
Max Planck Society, Research Unit “Dust in Star-forming Regions”, Schillergäβchen 2-3, 07745 Jena, Germany
Rastislav Mucha
Affiliation:
Max Planck Society, Research Unit “Dust in Star-forming Regions”, Schillergäβchen 2-3, 07745 Jena, Germany

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The evolution of dust particles in circumstellar disk-like structures around protostars and young stellar objects is discussed. We especially consider the coagulation of grains due to collisional aggregation and the influence of this process on the optical properties of the particles. These dust opacities are important for both the derivation of the circumstellar dust mass from submillimetre continuum observations and the dynamical behaviour of the disks.

We present first results of a numerical study of the coagulation of dust grains in a turbulent protoplanetary accretion disk described by a time-dependent one-dimensional (radial) “alpha” model. The influence of grain opacity changes due to dust coagulation on the dynamical evolution of a protostellar disk is investigated. In addition, we consider the grain motion in two-dimensional disks.

Type
XIII. Relationships to Interstellar Dust
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1996

References

Goldreich, P., & Ward, W. R. 1973, ApJ, 183, 1051 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kley, W. 1989, A&A, 208, 98 Google Scholar
Mizuno, H. 1989, Icarus, 80, 189 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mizuno, H., Markiewicz, W. J., & Volk, H. J. 1988, A&A, 195, 183 Google Scholar
Ruden, S. P., & Pollack, J. B. 1991, ApJ, 375, 740 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Safronov, V. S. 1969, Evolution of the Protoplanetary Cloud and Formation of the Earth and Planets, Moscow: Nauka Google Scholar
Schmitt, W., Henning, Th., & Mucha, R. 1995, in preparation Volk, H., Jones, F., Morfill, G., & Roser, S. 1980, A&A, 85, 316 Google Scholar
Weidenschilling, S. J. 1992, Planetesimal Formation 101, Summer School of Planetary ScienceGoogle Scholar
Weidenschilling, S. J., & Cuzzi, J. N. 1993, in Protostars and Planets III, Levy, E. H., Lunine, J. I., Tucson: Univ Arizona, 1031 Google Scholar