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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 4.

Cumulative mass histograms and models for the control (left) and moderate turbulence (right) simulations and for seven different models: SPL, STPL, TPL, BCPL, BPL, VTPL, and TSPL. Fit parameters to the best models can be found in Table 2. The bottom histogram shows the true values, with each plot above offset by a factor of 101.5 for convenient visualization. The shape of the planetesimal mass function is generally the same in the control (pure SI) simulation as in the moderate turbulence simulation. The broken power-law model for the mass function, shown in dark blue, is statistically favored according to the Bayesian and Akaike information criteria for all of our simulations.

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