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Dust Evolution in Protoplanetary Disks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2018
Abstract
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.
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- XIII. Relationships to Interstellar Dust
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