The Formation of Substellar Objects Induced by the Collision of Protostellar Disks
- 25 September 1998
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 281 (5385) , 2025-2027
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.281.5385.2025
Abstract
Simulations of a close encounter between two protostars, each surrounded by a relatively massive disk, resulted in the ejection of some of the disk material into a tidal tail. A portion of the tail condensed into an object with a mass in the range of 5 to 10 jovian masses. This mechanism may explain the existence of the single objects of substellar mass that have recently been discovered.Keywords
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