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Aims. Dust plays a crucial role in the evolution of protoplanetary disks. We study the dynamics and growth of initially sub-$\mu m$ dust particles in self-gravitating young protoplanetary disks with various strengths of turbulent viscosity.…

The dynamics and chemistry of protostellar disks are likely to be intricately linked, with dynamical processes altering the chemical composition, and chemistry, in turn, controlling the ionization structure and hence the ability of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Willacy , W. D. Langer , M. Allen , G. Bryden

A key problem in protoplanetary disc evolution is understanding the efficiency of dust radial drift. This process makes the observed dust disc sizes shrink on relatively short timescales, implying that discs started much larger than what we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Claudia Toci , Giovanni Rosotti , Giuseppe Lodato , Leonardo Testi , Leon Trapman

Aims. The initial stages of planet formation may start concurrently with the formation of a gas-dust protoplanetary disk. This makes the study of the earliest stages of protoplanetary disk formation crucially important. Here we focus on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-05 Eduard Vorobyov , Igor Kulikov , Vardan Elbakyan , James McKevitt , Manuel Guedel

Protoplanetary disks often appear as multiple concentric rings in dust continuum emission maps and scattered light images. These features are often associated with possible young planets in these disks. Many non-planetary explanations have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 C. P. Dullemond , A. B. T. Penzlin

The level of dust vertical settling and radial dust concentration in disks is of critical importance for understanding the efficiency of planet formation. We present the first uniform analysis of the vertical extent of millimeter dust for a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 M. Villenave , G. Rosotti , M. Lambrechts , A. Ziampras , C. Pinte , F. Menard , K. Stapelfeldt , G. Duchene , E. Baylock , K. Doi

Recent surveys have revealed that protoplanetary discs typically have dust masses that appear to be insufficient to account for the high occurrence rate of exoplanet systems. We demonstrate that this observed dust depletion is consistent…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Johan Appelgren , Michiel Lambrechts , Anders Johansen

Dust growth from micron- to planet-size in protoplanetary discs involves multiple physical processes, including dust collisions, the streaming instability, and pebble accretion. Disc turbulence and dust fragility matter at almost every…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Simin Tong , Richard Alexander , Giovanni Rosotti

Dust constitutes only about one percent of the mass of circumstellar disks, yet it is of crucial importance for the modeling of planet formation, disk chemistry, radiative transfer and observations. The initial growth of dust from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 T. Birnstiel

We calculate the chemical evolution of protoplanetary disks considering radial viscous accretion, vertical turbulent mixing and vertical disk winds. We study the effects on the disk chemical structure when different models for the formation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Dominikus Heinzeller , Hideko Nomura , Catherine Walsh , Tom J. Millar

The aim of this paper is to study the vertical profile of small dust particles in protoplanetary discs in which angular momentum transport is due to MHD turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability. We consider particle sizes that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sebastien Fromang , Richard P. Nelson

(Abridged) We attempt to characterize the radial distribution of dust in disks around a sample of young stars from an observational point of view, and, when possible, in a model-independent way, by using parametric laws. We used the IRAM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 S. Guilloteau , A. Dutrey , V. Piétu , Y. Boehler

Turbulence is the leading candidate for angular momentum transport in protoplanetary disks and therefore influences disk lifetimes and planet formation timescales. However, the turbulent properties of protoplanetary disks are poorly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Mo Yu , Neal J. Evans , Sarah E. Dodson-Robinson , Karen Willacy , Neal J. Turner

This is the first paper in a series where we study the influence of turbulent diffusion and advective transport on the chemical evolution of protoplanetary disks, using a 2D flared disk model and a 2D mixing gas-grain chemical code with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Semenov , D. Wiebe , Th. Henning

Protoplanetary disc mass is one of the most fundamental properties of a planet-forming system, as it sets the total mass budget available for planet formation. However, obtaining disc mass measurements remain challenging, since it is not…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Matthew Murray , Cassandra Hall , Hans Baehr , Jason Terry

Millimeter emitting dust grains have sizes that make them susceptible to drift in protoplanetary disks due to a difference between their orbital speed and that of the gas. The characteristic drift timescale depends on the surface density of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Jonathan P. Williams , Caleb Painter , Alexa R. Anderson , Alvaro Ribas

We study the dynamics and growth of dust particles in circumstellar disks of different masses that are prone to gravitational instability during the critical first Myr of their evolution. The dust component is made up of two different…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Vardan G. Elbakyan , Anders Johansen , Michiel Lambrechts , Vitaly Akimkin , Eduard I. Vorobyov

The Rosseland mean opacity of dust in protoplanetary disks is often calculated assuming the interstellar medium (ISM) size distribution and a constant dust-to-gas ratio. However, the dust size distribution and the dust-to-gas ratio in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-28 Yayaati Chachan , Eve J. Lee , Heather A. Knutson

Context. Current models of the size- and radial evolution of dust in protoplanetary disks generally oversimplify either the radial evolution of the disk (by focussing at one single radius or by using steady state disk models) or they assume…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-03 T. Birnstiel , C. P. Dullemond , F. Brauer

A relation between the mass accretion rate onto the central young star and the mass of the surrounding protoplanetary disk has long been theoretically predicted and observationally sought. For the first time, we have accurately and…