High-Accuracy Statistical Simulation of Planetary Accretion: II. Comparison with N-Body Simulation

Icarus

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 235-250

  Inaba, Satoshi ^a   Tanaka, Hidekazu ^b,c   Nakazawa, Kiyoshi ^b   Wetherill, George W ^a   Kokubo, Eiichiro ^d  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computer techniques; N body simulation.; Planetary accretion; Planetary formation; Planetesimals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000391072     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6533     Document Type: Article

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