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Turbulent motion driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) is believed to provide an anomalous viscosity strong enough to account for observed accretion rates in protostellar accretion disks. In the first of two papers, we perform…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Wayne O'Keeffe , Turlough P. Downes

By constructing a global model based on 3D local magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations, we show that the disk wind driven by magnetorotational instability (MRI) plays a significant role in the dispersal of the gas component of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Takeru K. Suzuki , Takayuki Muto , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

The outer protoplanetary disks (PPDs) can be subject to the magnetorotational instability (MRI) and the vertical shear instability (VSI). While both processes can drive turbulence in the disk, existing numerical simulations have studied…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Can Cui , Xue-Ning Bai

The structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks (PPDs) are largely governed by disk angular momentum transport, mediated by magnetic fields. In the most observable outer disk, PPD gas dynamics is primarily controlled by ambipolar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 Can Cui , Xue-Ning Bai

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

[Abridged] Aims. We provide an important step toward a better understanding of the magnetorotational instability (MRI)-dust coevolution in protoplanetary disks by presenting a proof of concept that dust evolution ultimately plays a crucial…

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is the most promising mechanism by which angular momentum is efficiently transported outwards in astrophysical discs. However, its application to protoplanetary discs remains problematic. These discs…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Matthew W. Kunz , Geoffroy Lesur

This paper studies the response of a thin accretion disk to an external radial magnetic field. Our focus is on protoplanetary disks (PPDs), which are exposed during their later evolution to an intense, magnetized wind from the central star.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Matthew Russo , Christopher Thompson

We use local numerical simulations to investigate the strength and nature of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the outer regions of protoplanetary disks, where ambipolar diffusion is the dominant non-ideal MHD effect. The simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jacob B. Simon , Xue-Ning Bai , James M. Stone , Philip J. Armitage , Kris Beckwith

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) has been proposed as the method of angular momentum transport that enables accretion in astrophysical discs. However, for weakly-ionized discs, such as protoplanetary discs, it remains unclear whether…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-15 Amy Secunda , Peter Donnel , Hantao Ji , Jeremy Goodman

In the early stages of star formation, boundary layer accretion, where protostars accrete material from disks extending down to their surfaces, plays a crucial role. Understanding how a magneto-rotational-instability (MRI)-active disk…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-20 Shinsuke Takasao , Takashi Hosokawa , Kengo Tomida , Kazunari Iwasaki

We examine whether the magnetorotational instability (MRI) can serve as a mechanism of angular momentum transport in circumplanetary disks. For the MRI to operate the ionization degree must be sufficiently high and the magnetic pressure…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yuri I. Fujii , Satoshi Okuzumi , Takayuki Tanigawa , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We present analytical and numerical studies of magnetorotational instabilities occuring in magnetized accretion disks. In these studies we make use of the linearised compressible MHD equations. These calculations are performed for general…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-08 J. W. S. Blokland , E. van der Swaluw , R. Keppens , J. P. Goedbloed

The saturation level of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) is investigated using three-dimensional MHD simulations. The shearing box approximation is adopted and the vertical component of gravity is ignored, so that the evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takayoshi Sano , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Neal J. Turner , James M. Stone

The planet-forming region of protoplanetary disks is cold, dense, and therefore weakly ionized. For this reason, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is thought to be mostly absent, and another mechanism has to be found to explain gas…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 William Béthune , Geoffroy Lesur , Jonathan Ferreira

Magnetohydrodynamic instabilities play an important role in accretion disks systems. Besides the well-known effects of the magnetorotational instability (MRI), the Parker-Rayleigh-Taylor instability (PRTI) also arises as an important…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Luis H. S. Kadowaki , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , James M. Stone

We investigate the linear growth and vertical structure of the MRI in protoplanetary discs when dust grains are well mixed with the gas over the entire disc thickness. All the grains have the same radius (a = 0.1, 1 or 3 micron) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Raquel Salmeron , Mark Wardle

We study protoplanetary disc evolution assuming that angular momentum transport is driven by gravitational instability at large radii, and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the hot inner regions. At radii of the order of 1 AU such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Philip J. Armitage , Mario Livio , J. E. Pringle

A new type of instability that is expected to drive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence from a purely toroidal magnetic field in an accretion disk is presented. It is already known that in a differentially rotating system, the uniform…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Kota Hirabayashi , Masahiro Hoshino

We investigate the possibility of the growth of magnetorotational instability (MRI) in disks around Class 0 protostars. We construct a disk model and calculate the chemical reactions of neutral and charged atoms, molecules and dust grains…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Yoshihiro Kawasaki , Shunta Koga , Masahiro N. Machida