Drag-driven instability of a dust layer in a magnetized protoplanetary disc
Abstract
We study drag-driven instability in a protoplanetary disc consisting of a layer of single-sized dust particles which are coupled to the magnetized gas aerodynamically and the particle-to-gas feedback is included. We find a dispersion relation for axisymmetric linear disturbances and growth rate of the unstable modes are calculated numerically. While the secular gravitational instability in the absence of particle-to-gas feedback predicts the dust layer is unstable, magnetic fields significantly amplifies the instability if the Toomre parameter for the gas component is fixed. We also show that even a weak magnetic field is able to amplify the instability more or less irrespective of the dust-gas coupling.
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@article{arxiv.1605.09152,
title = {Drag-driven instability of a dust layer in a magnetized protoplanetary disc},
author = {Mohsen Shadmehri and Razieh Oudi and Gohar Rastegarzade},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.09152},
year = {2016}
}
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Accepted for publication in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics