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Deriving median disk lifetimes from disk lifetime distributions

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2022-10-24 v1

Abstract

Observations show that individual protoplanetary disk lifetimes vary from \mbox{<< 1 Myr} to \gg 20 Myr. The disk lifetime distribution is currently unknown. For the example of a Gaussian distribution of the disk lifetime, I suggest a simple method for deducing such a disk lifetimes distribution. The median disk lifetimes inferred with this method is also shown.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2210.11764,
  title  = {Deriving median disk lifetimes from disk lifetime distributions},
  author = {S. Pfalzner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.11764},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

3 pages, 1 figure, accepted by RNAAS

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