Protoplanetary Disk: Planetesimal Growth, Snow Line and Gaps

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Presets

Drag to orbit, wheel or pinch to zoom, click a body to inspect it. Radial scale is square-root compressed. Parameters marked * restart the run.

Selected body
Click a body in the scene to inspect it.
Model parameters
Live readouts
Simulated time-
Gas remaining-
Snow line-
Number of embryos / bodies-
Mass classes-
Heaviest body-
Solids-
Water-rich bodies-
Collision outcomes-
Resonances-
Deepest gap-
Solid-mass conservation error-
Graphs and final architecture
Architecture: body mass vs orbit (log-log). Blue = ice-rich, tan = rocky, orange = gas giant.
Surface density (g/cm2): gas (blue) with gaps and decay, planetesimal sea (gold) being eaten; dashed = initial.
Number of bodies and heaviest body vs time; dashed line = gas dispersal.
Mass distribution: number of bodies per logarithmic mass bin (tan = rocky, blue = ice-rich, orange = gas giant).
Experiments

A. Snow-line isolation mass. Six isolated embryos, three inside and three outside the snow line, grown for 45 Myr and compared with the analytic isolation mass. B. Gap-opening mass vs viscosity. Self-check tests the model against closed forms.

The science
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