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Radial drift of dust in protoplanetary discs: the evolution of ice lines and dead zones

Abstract

We have developed a new model for the astrochemical structure of a viscously evolving protoplanetary disc that couples an analytic description of the disc's temperature and density profile, chemical evolution and an evolving dust distribution. We compute evolving radial distributions for a range of dust grain sizes, which depend on coagulation, fragmentation and radial drift processes. In particular, we find that the water ice line plays an …

Authors

Cridland AJ; Pudritz RE; Birnstiel T

Journal

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 465, No. 4, pp. 3865–3878

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Publication Date

March 11, 2017

DOI

10.1093/mnras/stw2946

ISSN

0035-8711