CDI-Type I: Combined Global Physical, Chemical, and Mineralogical Models of Protoplanetary Disks

CDI-I 型：原行星盘的全球物理、化学和矿物学组合模型

• 批准号: 0835734
• 负责人: Mordecai-Mark Mac Low
• 金额: $ 57.52万
• 依托单位: American Museum Natural History
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-15 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0835734&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CDI; Type; Combined; Global; Physical

The Earth is unique among known planets in having liquid water on its surface, a crucial reason for the existence of life. Explaining how this came to be, and predicting conditions friendly to life elsewhere requires understanding the protoplanetary disk from which Earth and the other planets formed, a complex, interacting system of rocks, dust, gas, plasma, and magnetic fields in orbit around the young Sun. Many models by different scientific communities have addressed separate aspects of this problem, but none has integrated all the different physical, chemical, and mineralogical processes into a single, general, continuously improvable, three-dimensional, computational model.Our imminent entry into the petascale computing era makes such a model practical for the first time. This project will be the first serious attempt to develop a complete, multi-physics model based on a global simulation of a protoplanetary disk. We will include three major physical processes. First is the turbulence driven by magnetic fields coupled to the partially ionized gas, which determines how fast the disk accretes onto the star and how well dust can stick together to form the building blocks of planets. Second is the radiative cooling of the disk, which determines the temperature of the disk, and is determined by how dusty the disk is. That, in turn, is controlled partly by the temperature. Third, the gas chemistry and the temperature, as well as the dust properties, determine the ionization of the gas, which in turn determines how turbulent the disk is. All of these processes will be included in a common computational framework. This framework will rely on a novel numerical algorithm for computing magnetized gas flows using simulated particles moving with the gas. This algorithm combines advantages and evades limitations of both traditional grid-based simulation codes and of more widely used particle methods such as smoothed particle hydrodynamics. Our team includes the inventor of this method.With a new, integrated model, we will be able to better understand Earth's position and properties, the properties of other Solar System objects, and observations of extrasolar planetary systems.The funding for this project will support the interdisciplinary training of a graduate student in the areas of meteoritics and astrophysics treated here. A collaboration between the host institution and two European institutions will be supported, with graduate students traveling in both directions for collaboration and training. Three undergraduate students will also participate in this research.The research undertaken here will inform the exhibitions and education work of the PI and co-PI Ebel. Currently, their projects include a new Hayden Planetarium Space Show (estimated international viewership 7 million over 5 years, including 0.5 million NYC school children), a photo exhibit on the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn, as well as extensive work with the professional development and community education departments of the Museum, and mentoring summer REU students and interns.

在已知的行星中，地球是独一无二的，它的表面有液态水，这是生命存在的关键原因。 解释这是如何形成的，并预测其他地方对生命友好的条件需要了解地球和其他行星形成的原行星盘，这是一个复杂的，相互作用的岩石系统，尘埃，气体，等离子体，以及围绕年轻太阳的磁场。 不同科学团体的许多模型已经解决了这个问题的各个方面，但没有一个模型将所有不同的物理，化学和矿物学过程整合到一个单一的，通用的，不断改进的，三维的计算模型中。 该项目将是在对原行星盘进行全球模拟的基础上开发一个完整的多物理模型的第一次认真尝试。 我们将包括三个主要的物理过程。 第一个是由磁场驱动的湍流，耦合到部分电离的气体，这决定了磁盘吸积到星星上的速度，以及尘埃如何粘在一起形成行星的积木。 第二个是圆盘的辐射冷却，它决定了圆盘的温度，并由圆盘的尘埃程度决定。 这反过来又部分地受到温度的控制。 第三，气体的化学性质和温度，以及尘埃的性质，决定了气体的电离，这反过来又决定了圆盘的湍流程度。所有这些过程都将包含在一个通用的计算框架中。 该框架将依赖于一种新的数值算法，用于使用模拟粒子与气体一起移动来计算磁化气体流。该算法结合了传统的基于网格的模拟代码和更广泛使用的粒子方法，如光滑粒子流体动力学的优点，并避免了局限性。我们的团队包括这种方法的发明者。通过一个新的，综合的模型，我们将能够更好地了解地球的位置和属性，太阳系其他天体的属性，以及太阳系外行星系统的观测。该项目的资金将支持在这里处理的陨石学和天体物理学领域的研究生的跨学科培训。 主办机构和两个欧洲机构之间的合作将得到支持，研究生在两个方向的合作和培训旅行。三名本科生也将参与这项研究。在这里进行的研究将为PI和合作PI Ebel的展览和教育工作提供信息。 目前，他们的项目包括一个新的海登天文馆太空展（估计国际观众700万超过5年，包括0.5万纽约市学校的儿童），卡西尼-惠更斯号土星使命的照片展，以及与博物馆的专业发展和社区教育部门的广泛工作，并指导夏季REU学生和实习生。