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Evidence for Universality in the Initial Planetesimal Mass Function

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

2017 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 847 L12.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Time evolution of the power-law index (solid black line), maximum planetesimal mass (dashed red line), and minimum planetesimal mass (dotted blue line) for the ﹩\tau =0.006﹩ (left), ﹩\tau =0.3﹩ (middle), and ﹩\tau =2﹩ (right) simulations for a period of time after planetesimals have formed. Both the power-law index, p, and the minimum planetesimal mass are relatively constant in time, whereas the maximum planetesimal mass grows slowly, presumably due to continued accretion of small particles and/or mergers with smaller planetesimals.

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