ALMA Discovers Comet Factory

Subject: ALMA Discovers Comet Factory 6th June 2013, 4:20 pm

http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1325/

Astronomers using the new Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have imaged a region around a young star where dust particles can grow by clumping together. This is the first time that such a dust trap has been clearly observed and modelled. It solves a long-standing mystery about how dust particles in discs grow to larger sizes so that they can eventually form comets, planets and other rocky bodies. The results are published in the journal Science on 7 June 2013.

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Science paper for those with access to the content behind the paywall

A Major Asymmetric Dust Trap in a Transition Disk
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6137/1199.abstract

Subject: Re: ALMA Discovers Comet Factory 9th June 2013, 9:19 pm

Now free with arXiv :
http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.1768

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