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Radial Gradients in Dust-to-gas Ratio Lead to Preferred Region for Giant Planet Formation

  • Authors: Yayaati Chachan, Eve J. Lee, and Heather A. Knutson

2021 The Astrophysical Journal 919 63.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 5.

Stokes number of the largest grain size (Stmax), dust-to-gas ratio (ϵ), and Rosseland mean opacity per gram of protoplanetary disk material for a range of fragmentation velocities within and beyond the water-ice line, as well as three different turbulence strengths after 1 Myr of evolution. The fragmentation velocity vfrag takes values in the range 0.1–10 m s−1 for ice-free grains and 1–50 m s−1 for icy grains (Blum & Wurm 2008; Gundlach & Blum 2015). The ice line is located at 0.75 au in all of our models.

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