Fig. 8

Mass-weighted particle size distribution for the full temperature-dependent nucleation model (blue) and the simple model (red), for three radial sections of the simulation domain. A black dotted line shows the initial state, where the mass is divided equally between micrometre-sized particles with a thin ice mantle and millimetre-sized particles consisting of a micrometre-sized silicate nucleus and a thick ice mantle. The mass in solids in each radius bin and in the full simulation region is denoted by mbin and mtot, respectively. (a) In the region interior to the ice line, sublimation dominates and thus all solids at t = 1000 yr are in the form of bare, micrometre-sized dust grains, regardless of the model. (b) Particle growth in the region around the ice line is model dependent: in the full model both dust and pebbles grow, with a significant fraction reaching centimetre sizes, whereas in the simple model mainly micrometre-sized particles grow, reaching sizes of at most a few microns. (c) In the outer region, particle growth is inefficient for both models and the size distribution here is instead set by inwards drift of millimetre-sized particles and turbulent diffusion of micrometre-sized dust.
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