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The Lack of Chemical Equilibrium does not Preclude the use of Classical Nucleation Theory in Circumstellar Outflows

  • Authors: John A. Paquette and Joseph A. Nuth III

Paquette & Nuth iii 2011 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 737 L6.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

Effect of varying the flux factor, β, on nucleation flux and grain radius. The circles are the mean grain radius from the bin and moment methods as a function of β. The solid (dashed) line is a power-law fit to the bin method (moment method) data. For either method, a factor of 10,000 in β changes the mean grain radius by less than 15%. The triangles are the radius of peak nucleation (in units of the stellar radius) as a function of β. The dotted line is a power-law fit to the peak radius data. The nucleation peak moves inward as β increases. The correlation coefficient for all three fits is 0.999.

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