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Ice Grain Collisions in Comparison: CO, HO and their Mixtures

arXiv:1608.05017 · doi:10.3847/0004-637X/827/1/63

Abstract

Collisions of ice particles play an important role in the formation of planetesimals and comets. In recent work we showed, that CO ice behaves like silicates in collisions. The resulting assumption was that it should therefore stick less efficiently than HO ice. Within this paper a quantification of the latter is presented. We used the same experimental setup to study collisions of pure CO ice, pure water ice and 50\% mixtures by mass between CO and water at 80K, 1 mbar and an average particle size of m. The results show a strong increase of the threshold velocity between sticking and bouncing with increasing water content. This supports the idea that water ice is favorable for early growth phases of planets in a zone within the HO and the CO iceline.

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