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Turbulence Regulates the Rate of Planetesimal Formation via Gravitational Collapse

  • Authors: Daniel A. Gole, Jacob B. Simon, Rixin Li, Andrew N. Youdin, and Philip J. Armitage

2020 The Astrophysical Journal 904 132.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Fraction of total particle mass contained in gravitationally bound clumps vs. time for each of our simulations. Note that t = 0 is defined to be the time when self-gravity is turned on for the particles, which is after 20Ω in all of our simulations. The difference in starting points on the plot is due to turbulence delaying clump formation.

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