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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 623, 期 1, 页码 482-492出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/428378
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accretion, accretion disks; dust, extinction; planetary systems : formation radio; continuum : stars; solar system : formation
From millimeter observations of classical T Tauri stars, it is suggested that dust grains in circumstellar disks have grown to millimeter sizes or larger. However, gas drag on such large grains induces rapid accretion of the dust. We examine the evolution of dust disks composed of millimeter-sized grains and show that rapid accretion of the dust disk causes attenuation of millimeter continuum emission. If a dust disk is composed mainly of grains of 1 cm to 1 m, its millimeter emission goes off within 10(6) yr. Hence, grains in this size range cannot be the main population of the dust. Considering our results together with grain growth suggested by the millimeter continuum observations, we expect that the millimeter continuum emission of disks comes mainly from grains in a narrow size range of 1 mm to 1 cm. This suggests either that growth of millimeter-sized grains to centimeter size takes more than 10(6) yr or that millimeter-sized grains are continuously replenished. In the former case, planet formation is probably difficult, especially in the outer disks. In the latter case, reservoirs of millimeter grains are possibly large ( greater than or similar to 10 m) bodies, which can reside in the disk more than 10(6) yr. Constraints on the grain growth timescale are discussed for the above two cases.
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