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The formation of a circumplanetary disk and accretion of angular momentum onto a protoplanetary system are investigated using 3D hydrodynamical simulations. The local region around a protoplanet in a protoplanetary disk is considered with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-16 Masahiro N. Machida

The discovery of protoplanets and circumplanetary disks provides a unique opportunity to characterize planet formation through observations. Massive protoplanets shape the physical and chemical structure of their host circumstellar disk by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-15 Felipe Alarcón , Edwin Bergin

With a series of numerical simulations, we analyze the thermo-hydrodynamical evolution of circumstellar disks containing Jupiter-size protoplanets. In the framework of the two-dimensional approximation, we consider an energy equation that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-20 Gennaro D'Angelo , Thomas Henning , Willy Kley

Young protoplanetary discs are expected to be gravitationally unstable, which can drive angular momentum transport as well as be a potential mechanism for planet formation. Gravitational instability is most prevalent in the outer disc where…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 Caitriona S. Leedham , Richard A. Booth , Cathie J. Clarke

Much of a protoplanetary disk is thermally controlled by irradiation from the central star. Such a disk, long thought to have a smoothly flaring shape, is unstable to the so-called 'irradiation instability'. But what's the outcome of such…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-05 Taylor Kutra , Yanqin Wu , Yoram Lithwick

We conduct three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations to investigate the nonlinear outcomes and observability of vertical shear instability (VSI) in protoplanetary disks. Our models include both vertically isothermal and thermally…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-16 Han-Gyeol Yun , Woong-Tae Kim , Jaehan Bae , Cheongho Han

Excitation and propagation of waves in a thermally stratified disk with an arbitrary vertical temperature profile are studied. Previous analytical studies of three-dimensional waves had been focused on either isothermal or polytropic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-28 Wing-Kit Lee , Pin-Gao Gu

Short-period super-Earth-sized planets are common. Explaining how they form near their present orbits requires understanding the structure of the inner regions of protoplanetary discs. Previous studies have argued that the hot inner…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-02 Marija R. Jankovic , James E. Owen , Subhanjoy Mohanty , Jonathan C. Tan

Aims: We explore the long-term evolution of young protoplanetary disks with different approaches to computing the thermal structure determined by various cooling and heating processes in the disk and its surroundings. Methods: Numerical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Eduard I. Vorobyov , Ryoki Matsukoba , Kazuyuki Omukai , Manuel Guedel

We analytically calculate the marginally stable surface density profile for rotational instability of protoplanetary disks. The derived profile can be utilized for considering the region in a rotating disk where radial pressure gradient…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-11 Tomohiro Ono , Hideko Nomura , Taku Takeuchi

Gravitational coupling between young planets and their parent disks is often explored using numerical simulations, which typically treat the disk thermodynamics in a highly simplified manner. In particular, many studies adopt the locally…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Ryan Miranda , Roman R. Rafikov

The maximum temperature and radial temperature profile in a protoplanetary disc are important for the condensation of different elements in the disc. We simulate the evolution of a set of protoplanetary discs from the collapse of their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Min Li , Shichun Huang , Zhaohuan Zhu , Michail I. Petaev , Jason H. Steffen

Irradiation from the central star controls the temperature structure in protoplanetary discs. Yet simulations of gravitational instability typically use models of stellar irradiation with varying complexity, or ignore it altogether,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-18 Sahl Rowther , Daniel J. Price , Christophe Pinte , Rebecca Nealon , Farzana Meru , Richard Alexander

We present simulations of the non-linear evolution of streaming instabilities in protoplanetary disks. The two components of the disk, gas treated with grid hydrodynamics and solids treated as superparticles, are mutually coupled by drag…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Anders Johansen , Andrew Youdin

Observations of protoplanetary disks show that some characteristics seem recurrent, even in star formation regions that are physically distant such as surface mass density profiles varying as $r^{-1}$, or aspect ratios about 0.03 to 0.23.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-12 Kévin Baillié , Sébastien Charnoz

Many protostellar disks show central cavities, rings, or spiral arms likely caused by low-mass stellar or planetary companions, yet few such features are conclusively tied to bodies embedded in the disks. We note that even small features on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-05 Andrea Isella , Neal Turner

Hydrodynamic, non-magnetic instabilities can provide turbulent stress in the regions of protoplanetary discs, where the MRI can not develop. The induced motions influence the grain growth, from which formation of planetesimals begins.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 M. G. Malygin , H. Klahr , D. Semenov , Th. Henning , C. P. Dullemond

We report on the results of the first 3D SPH simulation of massive, gravitationally unstable protoplanetary disks with radiative transfer. We adopt a flux-limited diffusion scheme justified by the high opacity of most of the disk. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lucio Mayer , Graeme Lufkin , Thomas Quinn , James Wadsley

The evolution of gravitationally unstable protoplanetary gaseous disks has been studied with the use of three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations with unprecedented resolution. We have considered disks with initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lucio Mayer , Thomas Quinn , James Wadsley , Joachim Stadel

Planets form in young circumstellar disks called protoplanetary disks. However, it is still difficult to catch planet formation in-situ. Nevertheless, from recent ALMA/SPHERE data, encouraging evidence of the direct and indirect presence of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Matías Montesinos , Nicolás Cuello , Johan Olofsson , Jorge Cuadra , Amelia Bayo , Gesa H. -M. Bertrang , Clément Perrot