The Evolution of Kuiper Belt Objects: A Dusty Disk Connection The

The
The Evolution
Evolution of
of Kuiper
Kuiper Belt
Belt Objects:
Objects:
A
A Dusty
Dusty Disk
Disk Connection
Connection
Ben
Ben Bromley
Bromley
Department
Department of
of Physics
Physics
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University of
of Utah
Utah
Scott
Scott Kenyon
Kenyon
Smithsonian
Smithsonian Astrophysical
Astrophysical Observatory
Observatory
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Formation of a solar system
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Kant (1755) and Laplace
(1796): Nebular hypothesis
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Start with a cloud of gas
and dust around the Sun
Conserve angular momentum,
collapse to a flattened disk
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Planets form in rings within the disk
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Is this picture correct for the Solar System? Is it universal?
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Planetary disks
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Young stars & gas/dust disks
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Gas vanishes quickly
(~ million years)
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Dust appears & lingers
(~ 100 million years,
despite radiation)
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Debris disks signify planet
formation
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Overview
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I. “Generic” planet formation by coagulation
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II. Numerical simulations: what they can offer
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III. Debris disks: sampling planet formation in time via dust
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IV. The Kuiper Belt: simulation results
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V. Conclusion
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I. A theory for building planets
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The dust settles
Coagulation/slow growth
Runaway growth
The oligarchy
Chaotic evolution
A planetary system
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Dynamical times: P ~ a3/2
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Surface density: Σ ~ a-3/2
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Planet growth timescale: ~ P/Σ ~ a3
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t1000 ~ 50 (a/40 AU)3 Myr
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~ Myr at 5 AU; ~ 400 Myr at 80 AU
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Gas dissipation: exp(-t/tg),
(a=orbital distance)
tg ~ 3 Myr
(important for growth inside ~ 20 AU [t1000 ~ tg])
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The initial conditions
Disk surface density Σgas ~ Σsolid ~ a-3/2
“MMSN” ~ 10 (a/AU)-1.5 g/cm2
1-10 μm grains (accumulated near the disk’s midplane)
Σgas ~ 100 Σsolid
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the “building blocks” emerge
coagulation: growth by collisions/agglomeration
create ~1 km-sized bodies within ~ 1 Myr (dynamical timescales?)
key step, but details uncertain [turbulence, gravitational instability]
(Goldreich & Ward 1973; Youdin & Shu 2002; Inaba & Barge 2006; Johansen et al., 2007)
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Gravity kicks in
Dynamical friction (energy exchange) and
Viscous stirring (ang. momentum exchange):
circularize large bodies, “heat” smaller bodies
Collisional damping can mitigate the “heating”
(e.g., Safronov 1973; Greenberg et al. 1978; Wetherill & Stewart 1989)
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Runaway growth
Accretion by large bodies (1+ km) is enhanced by gravitational focusing (σ > πr2)
—> rapid growth of relatively few 100-1000 km oligarchs
“To the dustbunny that hath, shall be given”
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Collisional cascade
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Growing planets stir up smaller bodies
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Stirring => collisions, beyond the shattering speed
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Smaller bodies ground to observable micron-sized grains
as larger bodies grow
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Poynting-Robertson drag + radiation pressure remove grains quickly
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Thus halts runaway growth
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The rule of the oligarchy
Oligarchs “feed” until starvation; may remain on isolated
Stable(?) orbits….
RH
(Ida & Makino 1993; Kokubo & Ida 1998,2000)
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a possible finale
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Chaotic/collisional growth, the oligarchy topples
(orbits cross, enabling massive mergers)
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The role of chaos
PLANET
XING
(merger?)
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II. A hybrid planet formation code
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Statistical coagulation code:
~1021 planetesimals
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N-body code:
~100 planets
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Supercomputing is essential (100,000 node-hrs/yr)
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A hybrid planet formation code
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Statistical coagulation code:
Safranov’s particle-in-box method
Bin according to mass, annuli, e.g. for annulus i, mass bin j:
dnik/dt = +(mergers into mass bin, sum over i’,j’)
- (mergers removing bodies; sum…)
+(fragmented debris)
+(effects from gas, PR drag)
Collision outcomes (merger terms) depend on impact energy, tensile
strength (Benz & Asphaug 1999)
Algorithm for collision outcomes (redistribute mass)
[n(m) ~ m-1.8 identical KE/unit mass, e.g., William & Wetherill 1994]
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Collision outcomes
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Impact energy: QI = 1/4 m1m2( V2+ Vesc2 )/(m1+m2)2
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Disruption energy: Q* ~ Qb r--α + ρ Qg r-β
Qb ~ 1 -- 108 erg/g
ρ Qg ~ 10-4 -- 104 erg/g
(e.g., Benz & Asphaug 1999)
(bulk/tensile)
(gravitational)
α ~ 0, β ~ 1.25
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Disruptive collisions: QI ~ Q*
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Large objects grow from collisions
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Smaller objects suffer losses
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Statistical coagulation code:
Velocity evolution (“v”=>horizontal, vertical relative to VKep) :
dv2/dt = (collisional damping)
+ (grav interactions--dynamical friction, viscous stirring)
+ (gas, PR drag)
use analytical approx’s derived from N-body simulations
(e.g., Ida & Makino 1992; Wetherill & Stewart 1993; Stewart & Ida 2000;
Ohtsuki et al. 2002)
Luminosity estimation:
keep track of “sub-grid” debris collisions
first approximation: optically thin re-processed starlight
better: track optical depth through the annular grid
(Kenyon et al. 1999)
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N-body code. Goal: to follow the few--O(100) largest objects
directly, not statistically
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Direct force calculations + input from coagulation grid
(e.g., da/dt)
Adaptive 8th-order Richardson extrapolation integrator
(switch for 6th order symplectic)
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CoM frame, rotating coordinates,
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Merger tracking
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Boltzmann solver
cooling
Coagulation
Gravity
Fragmentation
heating
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Merging
R > 100 km
(Direct)
Radiation forces
Gas pressure
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R < 100 km
(Statistical)
N-body code
planets
dust grains
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Dynamic
range
Earth skimming “spy satellite”
Binary Jupiters
Scaled solar system: m x 50
Mergers
Planet + dust
“Grapefruit test”
Planet
formation
Code validation
Coagulation
200 Moons
Planetesimals
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(Bromley & Kenyon 2005)
(Duncan, Levison & Lee 1998)
(Duncan, Levison & Lee 1998)
(Greenzweig & Lissauer 1990)
(Bromley & Kenyon 2005)
(Spaute et al. 1991; Weidenschilling et al. 1997)
(Chambers 2000)
(Ida & Makino 1993; Kokubo & Ida 1998;
Stewart & Ida 2000)
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III. Debris Disks
In theory…
Bright rings:
Planets forming
10 Myr
Dark rings:
Mature planets
300 Myr
Infer presence of
icy planets (plutos)
2 Gyr
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Structure in a disk
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Structure in a disk -- stochasticity
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MMSN disks, 1 Gyr
(identical starting conditions)
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Debris Disks - observational tests
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Is the coagulation/debris disk picture a good
frame-work?
Rise and Fall of luminous dust debris (10-100 Myr)
Ldust /L* ~ Lmax (t/t0)-m (m ~ 1-2, t0 ~ 100 Myr)
Lmax ~ 10-3 (Msolid,0 / MMMSN)
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Consistent with observations?
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Observations: Unresolved dusty debris disks
Flux (arbitrary units)
Clues in the infrared--reprocessed starlight
Wavelength (μm) (Song et al. 2004)
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Unresolved dusty debris disks
0.3, 1 & 3 x MMSN
A-star IR excess (data: Reike 2005, Su et al. 2006)
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Unresolved dusty debris disks
0.3, 1 & 3 x MMSN
Solar-type-star IR excess (data: Reike 2005, Su et al. 2006)
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Resolved dusty debris disks
HR 4796A
0.3, 1 & 3 x MMSN
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Resolved dusty debris disks
Large planets can migrate….
0.3, 1 & 3 x MMSN
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Debris disks, coagulation & planet formation
Gas giant cores versus KBOs
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Make Jupiter at 5 AU within ~ Myr?
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Gas dynamics, chaotic orbits, important
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Key ingredient: gas traps dust debris; protoplanets
accrete it (Rafikov 2004, KB 2008)
At ~30+ AU, protoplanets reach “isolation mass”
chaos not as important; slower growth…
Stirred debris is not accreted, lost to PR drag & radiation
pressure
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IV. KBO formation
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Simulations of in situ growth
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Predicting the size distribution: Quest for “q”
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Comparison with observations
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Coagulation & dynamics
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KBO and the size distribution--simulations
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Initial conditions:
MMSN
a ~30 to ~100 AU
1 m to 1 km
e,i ~ 10-4
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For starters: Qb ~ 103 erg/g,
ρQg ~1, b = 1.25
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KBO and the size distribution--simulations
cumulative mass distribution
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median eccentricity growth
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maximum size of planets
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KBO and the size distribution--simulations
size of largest objects (varying Σ from 1/3 to 3 x MMSN; 1 Gyr
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Differential number distribution n(r), three power laws:
n(r) ~ r
q:
-q
~ 3.5 below rS; (colllision dominated; Dohnanyi 1969)
~ 0 intermediate region rS < r < rL
~ 2.7 - 4, above rL, (accretion dominated)
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Break radius range r ~ 0.1 -- 20 km (rS and rL)
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q, rL (aka the break radius, rb) are time and Qb-dependent
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rmax ~ 1000 km
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n(r) ~ r-q & sensitivity to bulk properties:
Self-stirring models
q_small
q_large
r_break: rS, rL
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Qb < 104 erg/g
Qb > 104 erg/g
3.5
3.5
3.5 - 4.0
2.7 - 3.5
1 km (rS~ rL)
0.1 km, 10 km
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Stellar flyby, Neptune stirring, earlier times, favor steeper q_large
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q_large, rL are anti-correlated
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(rL grows in time)
Lower Qb increases size of possible disrupted (lost) objects;
steepens n(r), pile-up in “transition zone”
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Destroying the Kuiper Belt (numerically)
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MMSN implies ~99% more mass in KBO’s than
observed (~0.1 M_Earth)
Self-stirring collisional cascade can reduce
initial (~10 M_Earth) mass by ~95%….
Perturbers wanted:
Neptune.
Stellar flyby.
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Grinding down the Kuiper Belt
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Grinding down the Kuiper Belt
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Comparisons
Bernstein et al. (2004): qS ~ 2.3, qL ~ 5,
rb ~ 70 km
hot and cold CKBOs differ
Fraser et al. (2004): q ~ 4.5
Lunch table consensus:
qS ~ 2, qL ~ 4.7, rb ~ 30 km
same for both hot and cold CKBOs
Pan & Sari (2005): qS ~ 2 - 3, qL ~ 5, rb ~ 20 - 50 km
Here: qS ~ 3.5,
qL ~ 2.7 - 4, rS, rL => 0.1 -- 20 km
predicted: a “bump” in n(r)
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Coagulation and Dynamics
Nice model:
-- Heavy primordial nebula (~10 MMSN)
-- Gas giants form, 5 AU to 15 AU
-- “Rearrangement” at 700 Myr
-- Pre-KBOs already in place (a<30 AU)
-- Scattered KBO disk formed
Goal:
-- build seeds for KB via coagulation, then let
dynamics take over
-- estimate Σ, n® at 700 Myr;
-- (stellar flyby to truncate disk?)
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Coagulation and Dynamics
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Coagulation’s in situ formation of plutos (outside of a ~ 20 AU)
explains lack of massive planets beyond gas giants
Model also grows objects in < 100 Myr, seeds of the Scattered
Disk
Interplay between coagulation (“early”) and dynamics (“late”)
form the Kuiper Belt as we see it:
“Freeze out” coagulation with dynamics (Nice);
Large r slope of n®, rb can constrain freeze-out time
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Grinding down the Kuiper Belt -- stellar flyby
e < 0.04
e < 0.2
e > 0.5
(Sedna-like)
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A stellar flyby
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Perihelion (AU)
After the flyby
orbits of scattered planets
Eccentricity
Sedna (Brown, Trujillo & Rabinowitz 2004)
2000 CR103
Inclination (degrees)
Eris (Brown, Trujillo & Rabinowitz 2005)
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Putting it altogether
Initial conditions:
Mass distribution (a,r)
Gas fraction
Material properties,
e.g., snowlines
Coagulation
Collisions
Dynamics
Formation timescales
Migration
Flyby’s?
Observations:
Colors, composition
Cratering records
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Orbital distributions
Size distributions (q)
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V. Conclusion
KBO’s provide a snapshot of planet formation
of large (10+ km) objects
Debris Disks yield a “movie” of small (dusty) objects
(around stars of various ages)
Together, we get a more more complete framework for
understanding planet formation
Rise & fall of debris disks => coagulation is the right
picture, in general
To nail down this framework, accurate observations of
the Kuiper Belt are *required*!
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V. Conclusion (really)
1. Why are inclinations so high?
2. Why are cold disk objects so small & red?
3. Where did Sedna come from?
4. Was the solar nebula heavy (~200 M_Earth), unlike
many analogs?
5. Why is the KB truncated (either @ 30 AU or 50 AU)?
6. Where did the gas giants come from?
(its not all about dynamics!)
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Comparison w/Bernstein et al. 2004
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Sedna & the edge of the Kuiper Belt
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Other stars: extended disks; Our Sun: KBOs to ~50 AU
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No apparent “disk physics” to create edge
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Sedna’s orbit ~70 -- 1000 AU
How did it get there?
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A Stellar Flyby?
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Most stars are born in a cluster
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Cluster “evaporates” through stellar encounters
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A pairwise encounter early in Sun’s history:
Scatter Sedna from an extended disk
Shave off outer part of disk--KB’s edge
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Competing processes
a balancing act
Dynamical friction
“cools” protoplanets
Gravitational stirring
“heats” the dust
Merging
Fragmentation
Large bodies
accumulate mass
Gas & radiation
remove mass (grains)
Depletion of mass
supply for planets
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Summary of inputs for icy planet formation
Initial m-to-km planetesimals
low e, i (below ~10-3)
Tensile strangth, QI
Coagulation (growth), grav.
focusing (10-100 km)
Fragmentation,
cratering, damping
Dynamical friction damps e, i;
keeps grav focusing strong
Viscuous stirring of
small bodies
Collionsional
cascade!
Reign of the Oligarchs
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KBO structure -- a snapshot
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Classical KB:
cold (low e,i) & hot (higher e,i)
a ~ 40 AU
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Resonant disk
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Scattered disk (high a, e, i ~ 30+ degrees)
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Low mass (<<90% MMSN) <--!!!
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IV. KBO formation
formation time
Gas giants
Plutos
gas content
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