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arxiv: 1308.5181 · v1 · pith:CEEFNAWMnew · submitted 2013-08-23 · 🌌 astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.SR

Large grains can grow in circumstellar discs

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We perform coagulation & fragmentation simulations to understand grain growth in T Tauri & brown dwarf discs. We present a physically-motivated approach using a probability distribution function for the collision velocities and separating the deterministic & stochastic velocities. We find growth to larger sizes compared to other models. Furthermore, if brown dwarf discs are scaled-down versions of T Tauri discs (in terms of stellar & disc mass, and disc radius), growth at the same location with respect to the outer edge occurs to similar sizes in both discs.

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