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1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Rapid growth of gas-giant cores by pebble accretion

   Lambrechts and Johansen · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2012

   The authors simulate cores growing by accreting cm-sized pebbles and conclude that pebble accretion could resolve the long-standing time-scale problem in forming gas-giant and ice-giant cores.

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   1. UncheckedSimulations of pebble accretion match the authors' analytic expressions, which point to two growth regimes depending on the mass of the core.“The numerical results are in good agreement with our analytic expressions, indicating the existence of two accretion regimes, one set by the azimuthal and radial particle drift for the lower seed masses and the other, for higher masses, by the velocity at the edge of the Hill sphere.”
   2. UncheckedAccreting cm-sized pebbles is estimated to shorten gas-giant core growth by 30-1,000 times at 5 AU and 100-10,000 times at 50 AU.“The core growth time-scale is shortened by a factor 30-1,000 at 5 AU and by a factor 100-10,000 at 50 AU, compared to the gravitationally focused accretion of, respectively, low-scale-height planetesimal fragments or standard km-sized planetesimals.”