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带随机电荷的宇宙尘埃聚集

Cosmic Dust Aggregation with Stochastic Charging

Lorin S. Matthews, Babak Shotorban, Truell W. Hyde

摘要:

宇宙尘埃颗粒的凝聚是发生在太阳前星云、星周盘和原行星盘等天体物理环境中的一个基本过程。宇宙尘埃颗粒可以通过与等离子体环境或其他过程的相互作用而带电,尘埃颗粒之间产生的静电力可以强烈影响它们的凝聚速率。由于离子和电子以随机的时间间隔被收集在尘埃颗粒的表面上,尘埃颗粒的电荷经历随机波动。在这项研究中,一组随机微分方程来模拟这些波动的表面上的不规则形状的聚集。然后,采用所产生的数据,对混凝过程和所形成的聚集体的物理特性的电荷波动的影响进行检查。它示出了小电荷的尘埃(由于小尺寸的尘埃颗粒或稀薄的等离子体环境)的影响最强烈。

英文摘要:

The coagulation of cosmic dust grains is a fundamental process which takes place in astrophysical environments, such as presolar nebulae and circumstellar and protoplanetary disks. Cosmic dust grains can become charged through interaction with their plasma environment or other processes, and the resultant electrostatic force between dust grains can strongly affect their coagulation rate. Since ions and electrons are collected on the surface of the dust grain at random time intervals, the electrical charge of a dust grain experiences stochastic fluctuations. In this study, a set of stochastic differential equations is developed to model these fluctuations over the surface of an irregularly-shaped aggregate. Then, employing the data produced, the influence of the charge fluctuations on the coagulation process and the physical characteristics of the aggregates formed is examined. It is shown that dust with small charges (due to the small size of the dust grains or a tenuous plasma environment) are affected most strongly.

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