http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00405
Protoplanetary disks around young stars are the birth sights of planetary systems like our own. Disks represent the gaseous dusty matter left after the formation of their central stars. The mass and luminosity of the star, initial disk mass and angular momentum, and gas viscosity govern disk evolution and accretion. Protoplanetary disks are the cosmic nurseries where microscopic dust grains grow into pebbles, planetesimals, and planets.
D. Semenov and R. Teague
Tue, 4 Feb 20
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Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Europhysics News 51/1
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