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The Location of the Snow Line in Protostellar Disks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2010

Morris Podolak
Morris Podolak*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel email: morris@post.tau.ac.il
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Abstract

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The snow line in a gas disk is defined as the distance from the star beyond which the water ice is stable against evaporation. Since oxygen is the most abundant element after hydrogen and helium, the presence of ice grains can have important consequences for disk evolution. However, determining the position of the snow line is not simple. I discuss some of the important processes that affect the position of the snow line.

Keywords

Planetary systems: protoplanetary disksdustextinctionsolar system: formation
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Symposium S263: Icy Bodies of the Solar System , August 2009 , pp. 19 - 28
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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