The dynamics of dust in a collapsing protostellar cloud and its possible role in planet formation

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Cosmic Dust, Gravitational Collapse, Planetary Evolution, Protostars, Celestial Mechanics, Cosmology, Particle Collisions, Solar System

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First results are presented of a calculation describing the collapse of a rotating 'dusty' protostellar cloud. The dust and gas components are calculated separately, although their interaction (e.g., radiation transport, friction, etc.) is taken into account. In the early stages of the collapse the dust is dynamically unimportant. The evolution of the dust cloud is strongly influenced by dust-dust collisions: rapid sedimentation into an equatorial dust disc is found to take place as a result of accumulative dust-dust collisions and the corresponding grain growth. Treating the dust separately from the gas allows us to compare our results with solar-system cosmochemical measurements, with celestial mechanics information and to draw conclusions about the time and place of planet formation in the collapsing cloud.

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