Dust Size Growth and Settling in a Protoplanetary Disk

Abstract

We have studied dust evolution in a quiescent or turbulent protoplanetary disk by numerically solving coagulation equation for settling dust particles, using the minimum mass solar nebular model. As a result, if we assume an ideally quiescent disk, the dust particles settle toward the disk midplane to form a gravitationally unstable layer within 2x10^3 - 4x10^4 yr at 1 - 30 AU, which is in good agreement with an analytic calculation by Nakagawa, Sekiya, & Hayashi (1986) although they did not take into account the particle size distribution explicitly. In an opposite extreme case of a globally turbulent disk, on the other hand, the dust particles fluctuate owing to turbulent motion of the gas and most particles become large enough to move inward very rapidly within 70 - 3x10^4 yr at 1 - 30 AU, depending on the strength of turbulence. Our result suggests that global turbulent motion should cease for the planetesimal formation in protoplanetary disks.

27 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in the ApJ

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