Rapid planetesimal formation in turbulent circumstellar disks

Nature

Volumn 448, Issue 7157, 2007, Pages 1022-1025

  Johansen, Anders ^a   Oishi, Jeffrey S ^b,c   Low, Mordecai Mark Mac ^a,b   Klahr, Hubert ^a   Henning, Thomas ^a   Youdin, Andrew ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; BOULDER; FORMATION MECHANISM; GAS; GRAVITY; PLANETESIMAL; SEDIMENTATION; TURBULENCE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GAS FLOW; GRAVITY; HYPERBARISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 34548355082     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06086     Document Type: Article

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