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Planet Formation at Cosmic Dawn: Planetesimals in H2O-rich Disks around Low-mass Stars

  • Authors: Eduard I. Vorobyov, Daniel J. Whalen, Muhammad A. Latif, Alexander Skliarevskii, Christopher Jessop, Ryoki Matsukoba, Takashi Hosokawa, Devesh Nandal

Eduard I. Vorobyov et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 .

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Caption: Figure 2.

Top: radial profiles of the Toomre Q-parameter at 30 kyr (a) and 40 kyr (b) after protostellar birth. The horizontal dashed line marks the threshold value of ﹩\sqrt{3}﹩, below which the gravitational instability develops. Bottom: effective αGI parameter (c) and Reynolds αR parameter (d) for the disk. The values of αGI and αR are lowest in the innermost regions of the disk and highest near its outer edge, which is outlined by the black line. Note that αGI and αR are higher than αvisc throughout most of the disk.

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