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isolation mass: a standalone construct

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Planetary science

the mass a protoplanet reaches when it has swept up all solid material within its feeding zone, ending its runaway growth.

In planetary science, isolation mass refers to the mass a protoplanet reaches when it has swept up all solid material within its feeding zone, ending its runaway growth. This meaning comes from Lissauer (1987) in Icarus.[1]

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growth4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs isolation5 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs mass3 fields · 9 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Lissauer, J. J. (1987). Timescales for planetary accretion and the structure of the protoplanetary disk. Icarus, 69(2), 249-265. https://doi.org/10.1016/0019-1035(87)90104-7

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