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Planetesimal Formation in Zonal Flows Arising in Magneto-Rotationally-Unstable Protoplanetary Disks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2014

Karsten Dittrich ,
Hubert Klahr  and
Anders Johansen
Karsten Dittrich
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany email: dittrich@mpia.de, klahr@mpia.de
Hubert Klahr
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany email: dittrich@mpia.de, klahr@mpia.de
Anders Johansen
Affiliation:
Lund Observatory, Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Box 43, 221 00 Lund, Sweden email: anders@astro.lu.se
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Abstract

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Recent simulations show long -lived sub- and super-Keplerian flows in protoplanetary disks. These so-called zonal flows are found in local as well as global simulations of magneto-rotationally unstable disks. We investigate the strength and life-time of the resulting long-lived gas over- and under-densities as well as particle concentrations function of the azimuthal and radial size of the local shearing box. Changes in the azimuthal extent do not affect the zonal flow features. However, strength and life-time of zonal flows increase with increasing radial box sizes. Our simulations show indications, and support earlier results, that zonal flows have a natural length scale of approximately 5 pressure scale heights. For the first time, the reaction of dust particles in boxes with zonal flows are studied. We show that particles of some centimeters in size reach a hundred-fold higher density than initially, without any self-gravitating forces acting on the point masses. We further investigate collision velocities of dust grains in a turbulent medium.

Keywords

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) - Planets and satellites: formation - Protoplanetary disks
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 8 , Symposium S293: Formation, Detection, and Characterization of Extrasolar Habitable Planets , August 2012 , pp. 244 - 249
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2014 

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