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We discuss the properties of an accretion disk around a star with parameters typical of classical T Tauri stars (CTTS), and with the average accretion rate for these disks. The disk is assumed steady and geometrically thin. The turbulent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Paola D'Alessio , Jorge Canto , Nuria Calvet , Susana Lizano

We review advances in the modeling of protoplanetary disks. This review will focus on the regions of the disk beyond the dust sublimation radius, i.e. beyond 0.1 - 1 AU, depending on the stellar luminosity. We will be mostly concerned with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. P. Dullemond , D. Hollenbach , I. Kamp , P. D'Alessio

Volatile species in protoplanetary discs can undergo a phase change from vapour to solid. These "snow-lines" can play vital roles in planet formation at all scales, from dust coagulation to planetary migration. In the outer regions of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 James E. Owen

Context. The dynamics of a low-mass protoplanet accreting solids is influenced by the heating torque, which was found to suppress inward migration in protoplanetary disks with constant opacities. Aims. We investigate the differences of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Ondřej Chrenko , Michiel Lambrechts

We develop equations and obtain solutions for the structure and evolution of a protodisc region that is initially formed with no radial motion and super-Keplerian rotation speed when wind material from a hot rotating star is channelled…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Maheswaran , J. P. Cassinelli

We construct a new set of self-consistent analytical disk models by taking into account both viscous and radiative sources of thermal energy. We analyze the non-isothermal structure of the disk across the mid-plane for optically thick…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pascale Garaud , Douglas N. C. Lin

We carry out a large set of very high resolution, three dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations describing the evolution of gravitationally unstable gaseous protoplanetary disks. We consider a broad range of initial…

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

We examine a physical process that leads to the efficient formation of gas giant planets around intermediate mass stars. In the gaseous protoplanetary disks surrounding rapidly-accreting intermediate-mass stars we show that the midplane…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 K. A. Kretke , D. N. C. Lin , P. Garaud , N. J. Turner

Circumplanetary disks can be found around forming giant planets, regardless of whether core accretion or gravitational instability built the planet. We carried out state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulations of the circumplanetary disks for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 J. Szulágyi , L. Mayer , T. Quinn

Protoplanetary disks observed in millimeter continuum and scattered light show a variety of substructures. Various physical processes in the disk could trigger such features -- one of which that has been previously theorized for passive…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Prakruti Sudarshan , Mario Flock , Alexandros Ziampras , David Melon Fuksman , Tilman Birnstiel

We investigate the nonlinear growth stages of bending instability in stellar disks with exponential radial density profiles.We found that the unstable modes are global (the wavelengths are larger than the disk scale lengths) and that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Ya. Sotnikova , S. A. Rodionov

We present a series of 2-d ($r,\phi$) hydrodynamic simulations of marginally self gravitating disks around protostars using an SPH code. We implement simple dynamical heating and we cool each location as a black body, using a photosphere…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Andrew F. Nelson , Willy Benz , Tamara Ruzmaikina

Context. Multiple mechanisms are known to give rise to turbulence in protoplanetary disks, which facilitates the accretion onto the central star. Small dust particles that are well coupled to the gas undergo diffusion due to this turbulent…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-22 B. N. Schobert , A. G. Peeters

Vertical shear instability (VSI), driven by a vertical gradient of rotational angular velocity, is a promising source of turbulence in protoplanetary disks. We examine the semi-global stability of thermally stratified disks and find that…

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

We propose that turbulent heating, wave pressure and gas exchanges between different regions of disks play a dominant role in determining the preferred, quasi-equilibrium, self-similar states of gas disks on large-scales. We present simple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Curtis Struck , Daniel C. Smith

We revisit the global linear theory of the vertical shear instability (VSI) in protoplanetary discs with an imposed radial temperature gradient. We focus on the regime in which the VSI has the form of a travelling inertial wave that grows…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-24 Gordon I. Ogilvie , Henrik N. Latter , Geoffroy Lesur

A giant planet embedded in a protoplanetary disk excites spiral density waves, which steepen into shocks as they propagate away from the planet. These shocks lead to secular disk heating and gap opening, both of which can have important…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-15 Satoshi Okuzumi , Takayuki Muto , Ryosuke T. Tominaga , Shizu Shimizu

We investigate gap formation in gaseous protostellar disks by a planet in a circular orbit in the limit of low disk viscosity. This regime may be appropriate to an aging disk after the epoch of planet formation. We find that the distance of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Peggy Varniere , A. C. Quillen , Adam Frank

Magnetorotational instability (MRI) is the most promising mechanism behind accretion in low-mass protostellar disks. Here we present the first analysis of the global structure and evolution of non-ideal MRI-driven T-Tauri disks on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Russell Landry , Sarah E. Dodson-Robinson , Neal J. Turner , Greg Abram

With the help of high-resolution long-slit and integral-field spectroscopy observations, the number of confirmed cases of galaxies with counterrotation is increasing rapidly. The evolution of such counterrotating galaxies remains far from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Sergey Khoperskov , Giuseppe Bertin