Global Protoplanetary Disk Simulations: Dead Zone Formation and FUor Outbursts
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2021-01-25 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract
We conducted global hydrodynamic simulations of protoplanetary disk evolution with an adaptive Shakura-Sunyaev {\alpha} prescription to represent the layered disk structure, and starting with the collapse phase of the molecular cloud. With the canonical values of model parameters, self-consistent dead zones formed at the scale of a few au. The instabilities associated with the dead zone and corresponding outbursts, similar to FUor eruptions, were also observed in the simulations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2101.09206,
title = {Global Protoplanetary Disk Simulations: Dead Zone Formation and FUor Outbursts},
author = {Kundan Kadam and Eduard Vorobyov and Zsolt Regály and Ágnes Kóspál and Péter Ábráham},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.09206},
year = {2021}
}