eprintid: 15320 rev_number: 13 eprint_status: archive userid: 733 dir: disk0/00/01/53/20 datestamp: 2013-08-07 07:03:43 lastmod: 2013-08-26 09:34:36 status_changed: 2013-08-07 07:03:43 type: doctoralThesis metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Pinilla Ortiz, Paola Andrea title: Testing models of dust evolution in protoplanetary disk with millimeter observations subjects: ddc-500 subjects: ddc-520 subjects: ddc-530 divisions: i-130001 adv_faculty: af-13 abstract: The first steps of planet formation imply that dust grows from interstellar-like particles to planetesimals. Diferent physical processes play an important role in the dust evolution and its ability to coagulate and fragment, such as: radial drift, settling to the midplane and turbulent mixing. Observational evidences have shown that millimeter sized particles survive in the outer regions of protoplanetary disks in spite of the fragmentation destructive collisions and rapid inward migration of dust bodies, which are theoretically expected. The main goal of my thesis is to compare the state-of-the-art of gas and dust evolution models with current millimeter observations and look for the most favorable scenarios to have a good agreement between the two. Diferent cases have been explored: typical disks around Sun-like stars, lowmass disks as the ones around Brown Dwarfs and disk with inner gaps or holes known as transition disks. This work therefore brings new theoretical constraints to the planetesimal formation in young circumstellar disks, in direct link with the available observations. date: 2013 publisher: Paola Andrea Pinilla Ortiz id_scheme: DOI id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00015320 ppn_swb: 165297556X own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-153208 date_accepted: 2013-07-05 advisor: HASH(0x561a62a45ba0) language: eng bibsort: PINILLAORTTESTINGMOD2013 full_text_status: public place_of_pub: Heidelberg citation: Pinilla Ortiz, Paola Andrea (2013) Testing models of dust evolution in protoplanetary disk with millimeter observations. [Dissertation] document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/15320/1/pinilla_thesis_final_version.pdf