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bouncing barrier

(the problem that the seeds of planets would rebound rather than merge)

The term bouncing barrier refers to one challenge to theories of planet formation, that small objects forming in a protoplanetary disk material would not merge when they touched but would rebound. The regime where this appears to be a problem is dust grains on the order of a millimeter across.


(planet formation,barrier,migration,problem)
Further reading:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018MNRAS.475..167B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...827..110K/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ApJ...702.1490W/abstract

Referenced by pages:
barrier
meter size barrier

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