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Protoplanetary disks can become eccentric when planets open deep gaps within, but how eccentric are they? We answer this question by analyzing two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of planet-disk interaction. The steady state…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-20 Cory Padgett , Jeffrey Fung

High-contrast scattered light observations have revealed the surface morphology of several dozens of protoplanetary disks at optical and near-infrared wavelengths. Inclined disks offer the opportunity to measure part of the phase function…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 T. Stolker , C. Dominik , M. Min , A. Garufi , G. D. Mulders , H. Avenhaus

Recent high-angular resolution ALMA observations have revealed rich information about protoplanetary disks, including ubiquitous substructures and three-dimensional gas kinematics at different emission layers. One interpretation of these…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Xiao Hu , Zhi-Yun Li , Jaehan Bae , Zhaohuan Zhu

Since the discovery of the multi-ring structure of the HL Tau disk, ALMA data suggest that the dust continuum emission of many, if not all, protoplanetary disks consists of rings and gaps, no matter their spectral type or age. The origin of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Nienke van der Marel , Ruobing Dong , James di Francesco , Jonathan Williams , John Tobin

[Abridged] Aims: We provide predictions for ALMA observations of planet gaps that account for the specific spatial distribution of dust that results from consistent gas+dust dynamics. Methods: In a previous work, we ran full 3D, two-fluid…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-28 J. -F. Gonzalez , C. Pinte , S. T. Maddison , F. Ménard , L. Fouchet

Annular substructures in protoplanetary discs, ubiquitous in sub-mm observations, can be caused by gravitational coupling between a disc and its embedded planets. Planetary density waves inject angular momentum into the disc leading to gap…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Amelia J. Cordwell , Roman R. Rafikov

It has been recently suggested that the multiple concentric rings and gaps discovered by ALMA in many protoplanetary disks may be produced by a single planet, as a result of the complex propagation and dissipation of the multiple spiral…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Ryan Miranda , Roman R. Rafikov

Detailed observations of gaps in protoplanetary disks have revealed structures that drive current research on circumstellar disks. One such feature is the two intensity nulls seen along the outer disk of the HD 142527 system, which are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Sebastian Marino , Sebastian Perez , Simon Casassus

The tidal perturbation of embedded protoplanets on their natal disks has been widely attributed to be the cause of gap-ring structures in sub-mm images of protoplanetary disks around T Tauri stars. Numerical simulations of this process have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Yi-Xian Chen , Zhuoxiao Wang , Ya-Ping Li , Clément Baruteau , Douglas N. C. Lin

The observed dust rings and gaps in protoplanetary disks could be imprints of forming planets. Even low-mass planets in the one-to-ten Earth-mass regime, that do not yet carve deep gas gaps, can generate such dust rings and gaps by driving…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Ayumu Kuwahara , Michiel Lambrechts , Hiroyuki Kurokawa , Satoshi Okuzumi , Takayuki Tanigawa

Large cavities are often observed in protoplanetary disks, which might suggest the presence of planets opening gaps in the disk. Multiple planets are necessary to produce a wide cavity in the gas. However, multiple planets may also be a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Paul C. Duffell , Ruobing Dong

Protoplanets can produce structures in protoplanetary disks via gravitational disk-planet interactions. Once detected, such structures serve as signposts of planet formation. Here we investigate the kinematic signatures in disks produced by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Ruobing Dong , Sheng-yuan Liu , Jeffrey Fung

Protoplanetary discs are now routinely observed and exoplanets, after the numerous indirect discoveries, are starting to be directly imaged. To better understand the planet formation process, the next step is the detection of forming…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Jean-François Gonzalez , Guillaume Laibe , Sarah T. Maddison , Christophe Pinte , François Ménard

The ring and gap structures found in observed protoplanetary disks are often attributed to embedded gap-opening planets and typically modeled with simplified thermodynamics in the 2D, thin disk approximation. However, it has been shown that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Alexandros Ziampras , Amelia J. Cordwell , Roman R. Rafikov , Richard P. Nelson

By carrying out two-dimensional two-fluid global simulations, we have studied the response of dust to gap formation by a single planet in the gaseous component of a protoplanetary disk - the so-called "dust filtration" mechanism. We have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Zhaohuan Zhu , Richard P. Nelson , Ruobing Dong , Catherine Espaillat , Lee Hartmann

Planets are supposed to form in circumstellar disks. The gravitational potential of a planet perturbs the disk and leads to characteristic structures, i.e. spiral waves and gaps, in the disk's density profile. We perform a large-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-12 Jan Philipp Ruge , Sebastian Wolf , Ana L. Uribe , Hubert H. Klahr

High-resolution imaging of protoplanetary disks has unveiled a rich diversity of spiral structure, some of which may arise from disk-planet interaction. Using 3D hydrodynamics with $\beta$-cooling to a vertically-stratified background, as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Dhruv Muley , Ruobing Dong , Jeffrey Fung

Transitional disks are protoplanetary disk around young stars that display inner holes in the dust distribution within a few AU, which is accompanied nevertheless by some gas accretion onto the central star. These cavities could possibly be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-03 Tobias W. A. Müller , Wilhelm Kley

Embedded planets are potentially the cause of substructures like gaps and cavities observed in several protoplanetary disks. Thus, the substructures observed in the continuum and in line emission encode information about the presence of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 B. Portilla-Revelo , I. Kamp , S. Facchini , E. F. van Dishoeck , C. Law , Ch. Rab , J. Bae , M. Benisty , K. Öberg , R. Teague

This study uses numerical hydrodynamics calculations and a novel method for densely sampling parameter space to measure the precise shape of a gap opened by a planet in a gaseous disk, as a function of planet-to-star mass ratio, disk Mach…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Paul C. Duffell