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The Effects of a Stellar Encounter on a Planetesimal Disk

Hiroshi Kobayashi, Shigeru Ida

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0107086

Abstract

We investigate the effects of a passing stellar encounter on a planetesimal disk through analytical calculations and numerical simulations, and derive the boundary radius (a planet) outside which planet formation is inhibited by disruptive collisions with high relative velocities.

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