日本地球惑星科学連合2014年大会

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セッション記号 P (宇宙惑星科学) » P-EM 太陽地球系科学・宇宙電磁気学・宇宙環境

[P-EM31_1PM1] プラズマ宇宙:原子分子過程,ダスト,弱電離,プラズマ応用

2014年5月1日(木) 14:15 〜 16:00 503 (5F)

コンビーナ:*松清 修一(九州大学大学院総合理工学研究院流体環境理工学部門)、犬塚 修一郎(名古屋大学大学院理学研究科)、座長:成行 泰裕(富山大学人間発達科学部)

15:15 〜 15:40

[PEM31-01] 惑星形成過程における弱電離ダストプラズマの物理

*奥住 聡1 (1.東京工業大学大学院理工学研究科)

キーワード:弱電離プラズマ, ダスト, 惑星形成, MHD, 乱流

Planets form in gas disks around young stars. These protoplanetary disks are a typical example of weakly ionized plasmas in space: they are cool (〜10-1000 K) but are nonthermally ionized by galactic cosmic rays and stellar X-rays. The disks can also viewed as dusty plasmas as they contain micron-size dust particles from which planets form. In this talk, we highlight interesting aspects of protoplanetary disks as weakly ionized dusty plasmas, and discuss their importance in planet formation as well as the MHD of the disks themselves. In particular, we focus on the interplay between charged dust particles and disk's MHD turbulence. Ionized accretion disks are prone to become turbulent because of the magnetorotational instability (MRI; Balbus & Hawley 1991). In protoplanetary disks, the activity of MRI strongly depends on how much dust has grown to larger solid bodies, as small dust particles determine the ionization degree of the disk gas. Meanwhile, turbulence, if present, drives the relative velocity of solid particles, which in turn affects how far the particles can grow by collisions. We briefly review recent developments in the numerical study of MRI-driven turbulence, and then discuss possible coevolution of MRI turbulence and dust particles as predicted by our latest self-consistent simulation (Okuzumi & Hirose 2012). We will also highlight the importance of plasma heating by turbulent electric fields. A simple order-of-magnitude estimate shows that electric fields in MRI turbulence can significantly heat up electrons in the gas. This implies that Ohm's law can become nonlinear in the field strength. To study the nonlinearity of Ohm's law, we construct a gas-dust charge reaction model that takes into account the heating of ionized gas particles as well as impact ionization by hot electrons (Okuzumi & Inutsuka, in prep.). We find that the heating gives rise to negative differential resistivity at a high electric field strength. This occurs because heated electrons more frequently adsorb onto dust particles. The reduced conductivity will lead to suppressed MHD turbulence. Our ionization balance calculations predict that this effect become important in realistic protoplanetary disks (Mori & Okuzumi, in prep.).