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A note on the snow line in protostellar accretion disks

Meteoritics and Planetary Science (2004) 39(11) 1859-1868
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2004.tb00081.x
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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. © Meteoritical Society, 2004.

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Podolak, M., & Zucker, S. (2004). A note on the snow line in protostellar accretion disks. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 39(11), 1859–1868. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2004.tb00081.x

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