2014/12/11 by S. Krijt, Sebastiaan Krijt, Chris W. Ormel +5
Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph.EP
paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201425222
published as A&A 574, A83 (2015) · 16 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
arxiv created 2014/12/11 · openalex publication_date 2014/12/16 · arxiv updated 2015/02/04 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/03
Context. The coagulation of microscopic dust into planetesimals is the first step towards the formation of planets. The composition, size, and shape of the growing aggregates determine the efficiency of this early growth. In particular, it has been proposed that fluffy ice aggregates can grow very efficiently in protoplanetary disks, suffering less from the bouncing and radial drift barriers.