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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 648, 期 2, 页码 1219-1227出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/506138
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planetary systems : protoplanetary disks
We discuss the possibility of the erosion of dusty bodies in protoplanetary disks by a subsonic laminar gas flow. Our analysis is based on wind tunnel experiments on centimeter-size dust targets in an air gas flow of 63 m s(-1) at static gas pressures between 0.1 and 4.5 mbar. We compare the results to numerical calculations of gas flow through porous bodies and the resulting drag force on dust aggregates at the surface. Our studies imply that a dusty body can be efficiently eroded if the dynamic gas pressure of the surface flow exceeds gravity and/or cohesion. In protoplanetary disks, we find that objects on circular orbits might be relatively safe against erosion in a laminar gas flow even in a dense disk. However, if a body is stirred up to an eccentric orbit, its motion relative to the gas increases. Such objects can be significantly eroded if they consist of dust. As an extreme, a 100 m body with the rather low eccentricity of an Earth orbit might be eroded in a single orbit. This effect leads to a bias for planetesimals in low-eccentricity orbits, as objects with large eccentricities are destroyed more easily. Erosion of bodies in high-eccentricity orbits, and reaccretion of the dust aggregates by low- eccentricity planetesimals, might provide a special growth mode of planetesimals and protoplanets.
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