The Effects of a Stellar Encounter on a Planetesimal Disk

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2001-07-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0107086v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

25 pages, 11 figures, included in 15 tex-files, 7 ps-files and 4 eps-files

Scientific paper

10.1006/icar.2001.6700

We investigate the effects of a passing stellar encounter on a planetesimal
disk through analytical calculations and numerical simulations, and derive the
boundary radius ($a_{\rm planet}$) outside which planet formation is inhibited
by disruptive collisions with high relative velocities.

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