A note on the snow line in protostellar accretion disks

Morris Podolak; S. Zucker

doi:10.1111/j.1945-5100.2004.tb00081.x

A note on the snow line in protostellar accretion disks

Morris Podolak^*, S. Zucker

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Geophysics

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The temperature of ice grains in a protostellar disk is computed for a series of disk models. The region of stability against sublimation is calculated for small ice grains composed of either pure ice or " dirty" ice. We show that in the optically thin photosphere of the disk the gas temperature must be around 145 K for ice grains to be stable. This is much lower than the temperature of 170 K that is usually assumed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1859-1868
Number of pages	10
Journal	Meteoritics and Planetary Science
Volume	39
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2004.tb00081.x
State	Published - Nov 2004

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