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Figure 1: Processes responsible for the conversion of the interstellar silicate dust mixture into a chemical equilibrium dust mixture and its final destruction. |
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Figure 2:
Stability limits in the P-T plane of the minerals formed in
chemical equilibrium by the most abundant refractory elements Si, Mg, Fe, Al,
Ca in a Solar System element mixture. The dashed lines are the
P-T-trajectories corresponding to the disc photosphere at
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Figure 3: Partial pressures of SiO in chemical equilibrium between a gas with Solar System element composition and (i) olivine and pyroxene with a mole fraction of 0.7 of the magnesium-rich end-members of the solid solution series, (ii) quartz, and (iii) the partial pressure of SiO of the forsterite-enstatite buffer. The total pressure is P=10-4 bar. The dashed line shows the vapour pressure of iron. |
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Figure 4: Exchange of material between annealed pristine dust components with crystalline structure and equilibrium dust components via the gas-phase. The middle row refers to the vapour species. The solids in the upper and lower row are denoted by obvious abbreviations. |
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Figure 5:
Temperature variation of the diffusion timescales for Mg2+,
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Figure 6:
Model of the radial disc structure for mass accretion rates
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Figure 7:
Abundance of the elements Fe, Mg, Si, and O not bound in the ISM
dust components normalized to Solar System abundances. Disc model with
accretion rate
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Figure 8:
Relative deviation of the Fe concentration in the gas-phase from the
equilibrium concentration for the model with accretion rate
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Figure 9:
Radial variation of the fraction
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Figure 10:
Radial variation of the fraction of the silicon condensed into the
individual Si-bearing condensates and the fraction of silicon present as SiO
molecules, normalized to the solar abundance of Si. By diffusional
mixing the abundance of Si-compounds is locally increased over the solar Si
abundance. Disc model with
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Figure 11:
Cumulative representation of the distribution of the silicon condensed
into dust between the different kinds of silicate dust components
(interstellar and equilibrium ones) within the protoplanetary disc.
The total Si abundance is normalized to the interstellar Si abundance. An
enhancement of the Si abundance in the region of evaporation of the
interstellar silicates is due to diffusive mixing effects. The grey-shaded
areas roughly indicate the regions where the parent bodies of meteorites and
cometary nuclei are formed. Stationary disc model with an accretion rate
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