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Charging and coagulation of dust in protoplanetary plasma environments | | L.S.Matthews
; V. Land
; T.W. Hyde
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29 Apr 2011 | | Abstract: | Combining a particle-particle, particle-cluster and cluster-cluster
agglomeration model with an aggregate charging model, the coagulation and
charging of dust particles in various plasma environments relevant for
proto-planetary disks have been investigated. The results show that charged
aggregates tend to grow by adding small particles and clusters to larger
particles and clusters, leading to greater sizes and masses as compared to
neutral aggregates, for the same number of monomers in the aggregate. In
addition, aggregates coagulating in a Lorentzian plasma (containing a larger
fraction of high-energy plasma particles) are more massive and larger than
aggregates coagulating in a Maxwellian plasma, for the same plasma densities
and characteristic temperature. Comparisons of the grain structure, utilizing
the compactness factor, {phi}{sigma}, demonstrate that a Lorentzian plasma
environment results in fluffier aggregates, with small {phi}{sigma}, which
exhibit a narrow compactness factor distribution. Neutral aggregates are more
compact, with larger {phi}{sigma}, and exhibit a larger variation in
fluffiness. Measurement of the compactness factor of large populations of
aggregates is shown to provide information on the disk parameters that were
present during aggregation. | | Source: | arXiv, 1104.5677 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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