Formation of iron metal and grain coagulation in the solar nebula

Details Formation of iron metal and grain coagulation in the solar nebula Formation of iron metal and grain coagulation in the solar nebula

Mar 1994

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In Lunar and Planetary Inst., The Twenty-Fifth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 2: H-O p 1011 (SEE N94-36136 11-91)

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Coagulation, Iron, Magnetic Dipoles, Nebulae, Sun, Aggregates, Magnetic Fields, Magnetic Measurement, Nuclear Binding Energy, Silicates

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The interstellar grain population in the giant molecular cloud from which the sun formed contained little or no iron metal. However, thermal processing of individual interstellar silicates in the solar nebula is likely to result in the formation of a population of very small iron metal grains. If such grains are exposed to even transient magnetic fields, each will become a tiny dipole magnet capable of interacting with other such dipoles over spatial scale orders of magnitude larger than the radii of individual grains. Such interactions will greatly increase the coagulation cross-section for this grain population. Furthermore, the magnetic attraction between two iron dipoles will significantly increase both the collisional sticking coefficient and the strength of the interparticle binding energy for iron aggregates. Formation of iron metal may therefore be a key step in the aggregation of planetesimals in a protoplanetary nebula. Such aggregates may have already been observed in protoplanetary systems. The enhancement in the effective interaction distance between two magnetic dipoles is directly proportional to the strength of the magnetic dipoles and inversely proportional to the relative velocity. It is less sensitive to the reduced mass of the interacting particles (alpha M-1/2) and almost insensitive to the initial number density of magnetic dipoles (alpha no1/6). We are in the process of measuring the degree of coagulation in our condensation flow apparatus as a function of applied magnetic field and correlating these results by means of magnetic remanance acquisition measurements on our iron grains with the strength of the magnetic field to which the grains are exposed. Results of our magnetic remanance acquisition measurements and the magnetic-induced coagulation study will be presented as well as an estimate of the importance of such processes near the nebular midplane.

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