Computer Science
Scientific paper
Feb 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aipc.1094..572w&link_type=abstract
COOL STARS, STELLAR SYSTEMS AND THE SUN: Proceedings of the 15th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun.
Computer Science
Low Luminosity Stars, Subdwarfs, And Brown Dwarfs, Cosmology, Thermodynamics Of Nucleation
Scientific paper
We present our latest DRIFT-PHOENIX model results for dust cloud formation in cool atmospheres and investigate the influence of the metallicity [M/H] on the dust cloud structure on the example of a typical mid-L dwarf (Teff = 2000 K, log (g) = 5.0). Our new dust model simulates the formation of TiO2 seed particles (nucleation) and their subsequent gravitational settling, accompanied by kinetic growth and evaporation of seven solid species on top of these seeds. The gas phase depletion by each of the considered surface reactions and the element replenishment by convective up-mixing are consistently coupled into this mechanism. The result is a stationary cloud structure in phase-non-equilibrium. We observe a comparably low decrease of the dust particle number density and a weak increase of the mean grain size in the lower dust cloud for decreasing metallicities down to [M/H] = -4.0. For even lower metallicities to [M/H] = -6.0, these trends are reversed.
Hauschildt Peter. H.
Helling Ch.
Witte Sören
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