Growth and sedimentation of dust grains in the primordial solar nebula |
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| Authors: | Yoshitsugu Nakagawa Kiyoshi Nakazawa Chushiro Hayashi |
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| Institution: | Department of Physics, Kyoto University, 606 Japan |
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| Abstract: | Of the formation processes in the solar system, the process of growth and sedimentation of dust grains in the primordial solar nebula is investigated for a region near the Earth's orbit. The growth equation for dust grains, which are sinking as well as being in thermal motion, is solved numerically in the wide mass range between 10?12 and 106 g. Any turbulent motions in the nebula are assumed to have already decayed when the sedimentation begins. The numerical simulation shows that the growth and sedimentation proceed faster than was found by Kusaka et al. (1970) but in accordance with the estimate of Safronov (1969) owing to a cooperative interaction of the growth and the sedimentation; that is, at about 3 × 103 years after the beginning of the growth and sedimentation a dust layer, composed of centimeter-sized grains, is formed at the equator of the solar nebula. Furthermore, the mass density of dust grains floating in the outer layers of the nebula is found to be of the order of 10?5 after 105 years compared with that before the sedimentation. From these results, it can be estimated that at about 5 × 103 years after the beginning of sedimentation the dust layer breaks up owing to the onset of gravitational instability. |
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