Analogous Experiments on the Stickiness of Micron-sized Preplanetary Dust

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Apr 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000apj...533..454p&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 533, Issue 1, pp. 454-471.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

57

Accretion, Accretion Disks, Ism: Dust, Extinction, Methods: Laboratory, Solar System: Formation

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In the early solar nebula, the formation of planetesimals and cometesimals is believed to be due to inelastic collisions of initially micron-sized grains. The collisions are caused by relative velocities due to size-dependent interactions with the surrounding dilute gas. The grain growth process is determined by the velocity-dependent sticking efficiency upon collisions. Therefore, we performed experiments with eight samples of micron-sized particles consisting of monodisperse silica spheres, of irregularly shaped diamond, enstatite, and silicon carbide grains, and of silicon carbide whiskers. We determined the sticking probability and the energy loss upon bouncing collisions by studying individual grain-target collisions in vacuum. We found a sticking probability higher than predicted by previous theoretical work. Grain size, roughness, and primarily grain shape, i.e., the difference of spherical versus irregular grain shape, is important for the collisional behavior, whereas the material properties are rather unimportant. Our results indicate that the preplanetary dust aggregation is more effective than previously thought.

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