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Observational evidence exists for the formation of gas giant planets on wide orbits around young stars by disk gravitational instability, but the roles of disk instability and core accretion for forming gas giants on shorter period orbits…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Alan P. Boss

We consider an extreme case of disc accretion onto a gravitating centre when the viscosity in the disc is negligible. The angular momentum and the rotational energy of the accreted matter is carried out by a magnetized wind outflowing from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 Sergei Bogovalov , Stanislav Kelner

The origin of hydrodynamic turbulence in rotating shear flow is a long standing puzzle. Resolving it is especially important in astrophysics when the flow angular momentum profile is Keplerian which forms an accretion disk having negligible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Kanak Saha

Observations support the hypothesis that gas disk gravitational instability might explain the formation of massive or wide-orbit gas giant exoplanets. The situation with regard to Jupiter-mass exoplanets orbiting within $\sim$ 20 au is more…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Alan P. Boss

The stationary hydrodynamic equations for transonic viscous accretion discs in Kerr geometry are derived. The consistent formulation is given for the viscous angular momentum transport and the boundary conditions on the horizon of a central…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jochen Peitz , Stefan Appl

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

The mechanism of turbulent viscosity is the central question in investigations of turbulence. This is also the case in the accretion disk theory, where turbulence is considered to be responsible for the outward transport of angular momentum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-26 Alexander A. Panferov

The paper investigates the influence of accretion heating and turbulent heat conduction on the equilibrium of protoplanetary disks, extending the 2D axis-symmetric passive disk model of Flock (Flock et al. 2016, ApJ 827, 144). The model…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 B. N. Schobert , A. G. Peeters , F. Rath

Recent numerical simulations of magnetized accretion discs show that the radial-azimuthal component of the stress tensor due to the magnetorotational instability (MRI) is well represented by a power-law function of the gas pressure rather…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Mohsen Shadmehri , Fazeleh Khajenabi , Sami Dib , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Recent surveys show that protoplanetary disks have lower levels of turbulence than expected based on their observed accretion rates. A viable solution to this is that magnetized disk winds dominate angular momentum transport. This has…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Matthew Alessi , Ralph E. Pudritz

We aim to develop a simple prescription for migration and accretion in 1D disc models, calibrated with results of 3D hydrodynamic simulations. Our focus lies on non-self-gravitating discs, but we also discuss to what degree our prescription…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-28 Oliver Schib , Christoph Mordasini , Ravit Helled

Gravitational instabilities can drive small-scale turbulence and large-scale spiral arms in massive gaseous disks under conditions of slow radiative cooling. These motions affect the observed disk morphology, its mass accretion rate and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 W. Béthune , H. Latter , W. Kley

Fragmentation in a gravitationally unstable accretion disk can be an important pathway for forming stellar/planetary companions. To characterize quantitatively the condition for and outcome of fragmentation under realistic thermodynamics,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-17 Wenrui Xu , Yan-Fei Jiang , Matthew W. Kunz , James M. Stone

We improve on our previous treatments of long-term evolution of protostellar disks by explicitly solving disk self-gravity in two dimensions. The current model is an extension of the one-dimensional layered accretion disk model of Bae et…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Jaehan Bae , Lee Hartmann , Zhaohuan Zhu , Richard P. Nelson

We propose a generalized accretion disk viscosity prescription based on hydrodynamically driven turbulence at the critical effective Reynolds number. This approach is consistent with recent re-analysis by Richard & Zahn (1999) of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang J. Duschl , Peter A. Strittmatter , Peter L. Biermann

The gas equation of state may be one of the critical factors for the disk instability theory of gas giant planet formation. This letter addresses the treatment of H$_2$ in hydrodynamical simulations of gravitationally unstable disks. In our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Aaron C. Boley , Thomas W. Hartquist , Richard H. Durisen , Scott Michael

Planets embedded in optically thick passive accretion disks are expected to produce perturbations in the density and temperature structure of the disk. We calculate the magnitudes of these perturbations for a range of planet masses and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Jang-Condell

We carry out the effect of $\beta$-prescription for viscosity which introduced by Duschel et al. 2000 & Hure, Richard & Zhan 2001, in a standard self-gravitating thin disks. We were predicted in a self-gravitating thin disk the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-19 Shahram Abbassi , Jamshid Ghanbari , Fatemeh Salehi

This is the first of a series of papers aimed at developing and interpreting simulations of protoplanets interacting with turbulent accretion discs. Here we study the disc models prior to the introduction of a protoplanet.We study models in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 John C. B. Papaloizou , Richard P. Nelson

(abridged) Vortices are believed to play a role in the formation of km-sized planetesimals. However, vortex dynamics is commonly studied in non-self-gravitating discs. The main goal here is to examine the effects of disc self-gravity on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. R. Mamatsashvili , W. K. M. Rice