Clumping of interstellar grains during formation of the primitive solar nebula

Details Clumping of interstellar grains during formation of the primitive solar nebula Clumping of interstellar grains during formation of the primitive solar nebula

Jan 1975

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975icar...24..128c&link_type=abstract

Icarus, vol. 24, Jan. 1975, p. 128-133. NASA-NSF-supported research.

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Astronomical Models, Collision Rates, Cosmic Dust, Interstellar Matter, Monte Carlo Method, Solar System, Stellar Evolution, Agglomeration, Clumps, Planetary Evolution, Planetary Nebulae

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The author has previously shown that a considerable amount of clumping of interstellar grains is likely to take place during the free-fall collapse phase of an interstellar cloud which is forming the primitive solar nebula, with the assumption of sonic turbulence in the gas. The original estimate involved the crude assumption of hierarchal amalgamation of the grains upon collision. A Monte Carlo simulation of this process confirmed the general features of the results, but it was further found that the introduction of a low sticking probability reduced the size of the lumps quite significantly. A more realistic calculation was therefore carried out in which it was assumed that clumps of grains would tend to stick together if their collisions were approximately head-on, but that they would tend to fragment into smaller pieces if the collisions were more tangential. For typical values of the amalgamation parameter, this tends to spread the mass of the interstellar grains over a wide range of clump sizes, ranging from individual grains to objects in the millimeter or centimeter size.

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