Radiation-induced Grain Dynamics in Dust Disks: Radiation Pressure, Poynting-Robertson Drag, and Photophoresis

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Jul 2007

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HST Proposal ID #11266. Cycle 16

Computer Science

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We propose a theoretical program to rigorously calculate the radiation pressure and Poynting-Robertson drag parameters for both porous and compact grains in dust disks illuminated by stars of a wide range of spectral types, using the scattering parameters obtained from our HST Cycle 15 theory project. We also propose to study the rotational excitation of grains in gas-rich, optically thin disks through collisions with neutrals, ions, "plasma drag" which may drive them to rotate suprathermally to test the "photophoresis" hypothesis which was recently invoked to explain the central clearing and the formation of narrow rings in dust disks. This program will create a web-based library of radiation pressure and Poynting-Robertson drag parameters for both porous dust and compact dust including nano-sized grains as a function of size, composition, porosity for porous dust, and stellar spectral type. This library will be made publicly available via the WWW at http://www.missouri.edu/~lia/. These parameters are essential 1 for modeling disk dynamics to interpret the un-smooth structures e.g. asymmetry, warps, inner holes, clumps, rings seen in scattered light images of disks obtained with HST, and 2 for reliably determining the dust removal and replenishment rates of debris disks as well as disk evolution.;

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