scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

The Gas Drag Effect on the Elliptic Motion of a Solid Body in the Primordial Solar Nebula

Isao Adachi, +2 more
- 01 Dec 1976 - 
- Vol. 56, Iss: 6, pp 1756-1771
TLDR
The gas drag effect in the primordial solar nebula on the motion of a solid body, ranging from a large planetesimal to a small dust grain, is investigated in this article.
Abstract
The gas drag effect in the primordial solar nebula on the motion of a solid body, ranging from a large planetesimal to a small dust grain, is investigated. For a planetesimal, expressions for the short-term variation of the semi-major axis, the eccentricity and inclination are obtained using a perturbation method and a realistic formula for the gas drag force. For a small body, an orbit spiralling towards the sun in the equatorial plane of the nebula is investigated and the decay time of the orbital radius is obtained. It is found that the decay time at 1 a.u. is as short as 10' or 10' years for a solid body with mass in the range between 10' g and 10' g.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Toward a Deterministic Model of Planetary Formation. I. A Desert in the Mass and Semimajor Axis Distributions of Extrasolar Planets

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the accretion of cores of giant planets from planetesimals, gas accretion onto the cores, and their orbital migration and show that the mass and semimajor axis distributions generated in their simulations for the gas giants are consistent with those of the known extrasolar planets.
Journal ArticleDOI

Rapid growth of gas-giant cores by pebble accretion

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the accretion rate onto seed masses ranging from a large planetesimal to a fully grown 10-Earth-mass core and test different particle sizes, concluding that pebble accretion can resolve the long-standing core accretion timescale conflict.
Journal ArticleDOI

Settling and growth of dust particles in a laminar phase of a low-mass solar nebula

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the settling and growth of dust particles in the subsequent laminar phase of the solar nebula in detail, treating a dust layer as a two-component fluid composed of the dust and the gas, and obtained analytic expressions for the settling path, the growing size, and the settling time.
Journal ArticleDOI

Particle Stirring in Turbulent Gas Disks: Including Orbital Oscillations

TL;DR: In this article, the Schmidt number (ratio of gas to particle diusivity) is shown to rise quadratically, not linearly, with stopping time, and the particle layer becomes thinner with the strength of turbulent diusion held xed.
References
More filters
Related Papers (5)