Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 1999
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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #31, #30.08
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
In simulations of evolution of cometary nuclei it is commonly assumed that the coefficients of sublimation and condensation of the volatiles are both equal to one. However, the laboratory investigation of water ice samples under cometary-like conditions (Kossacki et al., 1997) suggests, that the sublimation flux calculated with the Hertz-Knudsen formula and the above assumption is nearly an order of magnitude too high. A similar conclusion can be drawn from the results of various experiments on growth from vapour phase and sublimation of ice crystals (Lamb and Scott, 1972; Beckmann and Lacmann, 1982; Sei and Gonda, 1989). These results imply that the sublimation coefficient can be as low as 0.1. The above coefficients depend on various parameters such as temperature, concentration of surface impurities as well as deviation of the vapour pressure from that of the phase equilibrium. In this work we discuss the temperature dependence of both of these coefficients. We also propose an empirical formula to fit the temperature dependence. This new formulation is also used to analyse the implications for the thermal conductivity of a porous cometary-like ice.
Koemle Norbert I.
Kossacki Konrad J.
Markiewicz Wojciech J.
Skorov Yuri
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