Calculations of vaporizing collisions between planetesimals

Planetesimal Collisions during the Growth and Migration of Gas Giants

Carter & Stewart PSJ 2020: Figure 4: Planetesimal disk eccentricity and inclination evolution and impact velocities during an example Grand Tack simulation with a 50 kyr evolution timescale and HG gas disk (GT15gm5e4_50k_hg1). Planetesimals are colored according to their average composition as a function of initial heliocentric distance of constituent material; (proto-)Jupiter and (proto-)Saturn are shown as grey circles. Body sizes are proportional to their mass. The light grey band indicates the present-day asteroid belt region.

See more animations from this paper at Phil Carter’s web site.

Simulations of individual collisions

3D silica-ice mixture

2D silica-ice mixtures

2D silica bodies

1D ice bodies

Water plume source, 80 GPa, R=25 km, 0.1 Pa surrounding nebula
Material 1 = water; 2 = nebula within the stall radius; 3 = nebula outside the stall radius