Aerodynamical sticking of dust aggregates

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Oct 2001

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Physical Review E (Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics), Volume 64, Issue 4, October 2001, p.046301

Physics

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Fractals, Macroscopic Aggregates, Porous Materials, Granular Materials, Deformation And Flow, General, Solar Nebula, Cosmogony

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We present results of collision experiments of a dense beam of aggregated 1.2 μm SiO2 particles entrained in a gas flow with metal targets of different widths. Depending on the target width (d=25.4, 50.8, and 127 μm) and the ambient gas pressure (p=0.5-2.0 mbar), the growth of a dust pile on the target begins at a threshold impact speed (vimp=6-12.5 m/s). These threshold velocities for sticking exceed the limit for total disruption of aggregates by more than a factor of 5-10 for the given parameters. We found that a significant number of fragments (single particles) from the collisions had a very low coefficient of restitution cr at least down to cr<0.05 that is much lower than the value cr>0.5 that one of the single solid micron-sized particles would have while impinging a rigid target. Due to the drag of the gas flow these slow fragments are forced back to the target a second time resulting in sticking that eventually leads to the formation of the dust pile in spite of the high impact velocities. Together, the fragmentation, the low coefficients of restitution of a significant number of fragments, and the gas flow provide an efficient growth mechanism for bodies that would otherwise lose mass. We consider this an important mechanism for the formation of planetesimals in the solar nebula.

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