The outcome of protoplanetary dust growth: pebbles, boulders, or planetesimals?
The outcome of protoplanetary dust growth: pebbles, boulders, or planetesimals?
The sticking of micron sized dust particles due to surface forces in circumstellar disks is the first stage in the production of asteroids and planets. The key ingredients that drive this process are the relative velocity between the dust particles in this environment and the complex physics of dust aggregate …