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Breakthrough revisited : investigating the requirements for growth of dust beyond the bouncing barrier
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Booth, Richard A., Meru, Farzana, Lee, Man Hoi and Clarke, Cathie J. (2017) Breakthrough revisited : investigating the requirements for growth of dust beyond the bouncing barrier. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475 (1). pp. 167-180. doi:10.1093/mnras/stx3084
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3084
Abstract
For grain growth to proceed effectively and lead to planet formation, a number of barriers to growth must be overcome. One such barrier, relevant for compact grains in the inner regions of the disc, is the ‘bouncing barrier’ in which large grains (∼mm size) tend to bounce off each other rather than sticking. However, by maintaining a population of small grains, it has been suggested that cm-size particles may grow rapidly by sweeping up these small grains. We present the first numerically resolved investigation into the conditions under which grains may be lucky enough to grow beyond the bouncing barrier by a series of rare collisions leading to growth (so-called ‘breakthrough’). Our models support previous results, and show that in simple models breakthrough requires the mass ratio at which high-velocity collisions transition to growth instead of causing fragmentation to be low, ϕ ≲ 50. However, in models that take into account the dependence of the fragmentation threshold on mass ratio, we find that breakthrough occurs more readily, even if mass transfer is relatively inefficient. This suggests that bouncing may only slow down growth, rather than preventing growth beyond a threshold barrier. However, even when growth beyond the bouncing barrier is possible, radial drift will usually prevent growth to arbitrarily large sizes.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Physics | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Planets, Satellites, Astrophysics, Cosmic dust, Interstellar matter, Planets -- Origin | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 0035-8711 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Official Date: | 21 March 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 475 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Number: | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 167-180 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stx3084 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||||||||||||||
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