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Pebble Accretion at the Origin of Water in Europa

  • Authors: Thomas Ronnet, Olivier Mousis, and Pierre Vernazza

2017 The Astrophysical Journal 845 92.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Left: particles’ radial velocities as a function of their Stokes numbers (black dots) at 15 RJup from a Jupiter mass planet in the midplane of a CPD with ﹩{\dot{M}}_{p}={10}^{-7}\,{M}_{\mathrm{Jup}}\,{\mathrm{yr}}^{-1}﹩ and α = 10−3. The solid line shows the solution of the analytical formula given by Equation (17), which fits well the results of our integration. Small dust grains with sizes smaller than ∼10−3 m have a slightly positive velocity, which is that of the gas at the midplane (vr,g ≃ 0.15 m s−1). Overall, there is more than one order of magnitude difference between the velocity of pebbles (solids with St ∼ 1) and those of the larger (St ≫ 1) and smaller (St ≪ 1) particles. Right: correspondance between the Stokes number and the size of the particles.

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