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Katrin Ros

Doctoral student

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The fate of icy pebbles undergoing sublimation in protoplanetary discs

Author

  • Stefano Spadaccia
  • Holly L. Capelo
  • Antoine Pommerol
  • Philipp Schuetz
  • Yann Alibert
  • Katrin Ros
  • Nicolas Thomas

Summary, in English

Icy pebbles may play an important role in planet foation close to the water ice line of protoplanetary discs. There, dust coagulation is more efficient and recondensation of vapour on pebbles may enhance their growth outside the ice line. Previous theoretical studies showed that disruption of icy pebbles due to sublimation increases the growth rate of pebbles inside and outside the ice line, by freeing small silicate particles back in the dust reservoir of the disc. However, since planet accretion is dependent on the Stokes number of the accreting pebbles, the growth of planetesimals could be enhanced downstream of the ice line if pebbles are not disrupting upon sublimation. We developed two experimental models of icy pebbles using different silicate dusts, and we exposed them to low-temperature and low-pressure conditions in a vacuum chamber. Increasing the temperature inside the chamber, we studied the conditions in which pebbles are preserved through sublimation without disrupting. We find that small silicate particles (<50 m) and a small quantity of ice (around 15 per cent pebble mass) are optimal conditions for preserving pebbles through sublimation. Furtheore, pebbles with coarse dust distribution (100-300 m) do not disrupt if a small percentage (10-20 per cent mass) of dust grains are smaller than 50 m. Our findings highlight how sublimation is not necessarily causing disruption, and that pebbles seem to survive fast sublimation processes effectively.

Department/s

  • Lund Observatory - Undergoing reorganization

Publishing year

2022-01-01

Language

English

Pages

2825-2835

Publication/Series

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volume

509

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Topic

  • Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Keywords

  • foation
  • image processing
  • methods
  • miscellaneous
  • planets and satellites
  • protoplanetary discs
  • techniques

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0035-8711