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Snow Line Evolution

Snow Line Evolution is a theoretical construct in planetary science that denotes the time-dependent migration of the radial distance in a protoplanetary disk beyond which volatile compounds such as water, ammonia, and methane can condense into solid ice grains, distinguishing it from static snow line models by incorporating dynamical changes due to disk cooling, accretion, and stellar radiation.

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Planet Formation around Stars of Various Masses: The Snow Line and the Frequency of Giant Planets

Grant M. Kennedy, Scott J. Kenyon · The Astrophysical Journal · 2008 · 494 citations · Full text

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Snowline depression in the tropics during the Last Glaciation

Stephen C. Porter · Quaternary Science Reviews · 2000 · 316 citations

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Planetesimal formation starts at the snow line

Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2017 · 276 citations · Full text

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The Effect of Internal Dissipation and Surface Irradiation on the Structure of Disks and the Location of the Snow Line around Sun‐like Stars

Pascale Garaud, D. N. C. Lin · The Astrophysical Journal · 2006 · 263 citations · Full text

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Hints for a Turnover at the Snow Line in the Giant Planet Occurrence Rate

Rachel B. Fernandes, Gijs D. Mulders, Ilaria Pascucci et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2019 · 263 citations · Full text

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    Stefan Hastenrath

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    5 publications · 154 citations

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  2. SO
    Satoshi Okuzumi

    Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

    4 publications · 269 citations

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  3. SI
    Shigeru Ida

    Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

    3 publications · 498 citations

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  4. SK
    Steven K. Baum

    Texas A&M University, United States

    2 publications · 87 citations

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  5. RH
    Ryuki Hyodo

    Life Science Institute, Japan

    2 publications · 46 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    12 h-index

    23 publications

    1.1K citations

  2. Tokyo Institute of Technology

    Tokyo, Japan

    11 h-index

    19 publications

    1.7K citations

  3. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

    6 h-index

    9 publications

    889 citations

  4. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    243 citations

  5. Life Science Institute

    Tokyo, Japan

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    202 citations

  6. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    881 citations

  7. Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur

    Nice, France

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    311 citations

  8. Space Telescope Science Institute

    Baltimore, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    480 citations

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 15 publications · 2K citations

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  2. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    9 publications · 784 citations

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  3. Journal of Glaciology

    5 publications · 150 citations

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  5. Science

    2 publications · 100 citations

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