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  • Radiation Hydrodynamics Sim...
    Nakatani, Riouhei; Hosokawa, Takashi; Yoshida, Naoki; Nomura, Hideko; Kuiper, Rolf

    The Astrophysical journal, 04/2018, Letnik: 857, Številka: 1
    Journal Article

    Protoplanetary disks are thought to have lifetimes of several million yr in the solar neighborhood, but recent observations suggest that the disk lifetimes are shorter in a low-metallicity environment. We perform a suite of radiation hydrodynamics simulations of photoevaporating protoplanetary disks to study their long-term evolution of ∼10,000 yr and the metallicity dependence of mass-loss rates. Our simulations follow hydrodynamics, extreme and far-ultraviolet (FUV) radiative transfer, and nonequilibrium chemistry in a self-consistent manner. Dust-grain temperatures are also calculated consistently by solving the radiative transfer of the stellar irradiation and grain (re-)emission. We vary the disk metallicity over a wide range of 10 − 4 Z ≤ Z ≤ 10 Z . The photoevaporation rate is lower with higher metallicity in the range of 10 − 1 Z Z 10 Z , because dust shielding effectively prevents FUV photons from penetrating and heating the dense regions of the disk. The photoevaporation rate sharply declines at even lower metallicities in 10 − 2 Z Z 10 − 1 Z , because FUV photoelectric heating becomes less effective than dust-gas collisional cooling. The temperature in the neutral region decreases, and photoevaporative flows are excited only in an outer region of the disk. At 10 − 4 Z ≤ Z 10 − 2 Z , H i photoionization heating acts as a dominant gas heating process and drives photoevaporative flows with a roughly constant rate. The typical disk lifetime is shorter at Z = 0.3 Z than at Z = Z , being consistent with recent observations of the extreme outer galaxy.