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Vortex formation through the Rossby wave instability (RWI) in protoplanetary discs has been invoked to play a role in planet formation theory, and suggested to explain the observation of large dust asymmetries in several transitional discs.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Min-Kai Lin

Numerical calculations of the linear Rossby wave instability (RWI) in global three-dimensional (3D) disks are presented. The linearized fluid equations are solved for vertically stratified, radially structured disks with either a locally…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Min-Kai Lin

The Rossby wave instability (RWI), which depends on the density bumps and extremum in the vortensities in the differentially rotating discs, plays an important role in the evolution of the protoplanetary discs. In this article, we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Mahmoud Gholipour , Mohsen Nejad-Asghar

We study the effect of large-scale magnetic fields on the non-axisymmetric Rossby wave instability (RWI) in accretion discs. The instability develops around a density bump, which is likely present in the transition region between the active…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Cong Yu , Dong Lai

A brief review is given of the Rossby wave instability (RWI) in astrophysical discs. In non-self-gravitating discs, around for example a newly forming stars, the instability can be triggered by an axisymmetric bump at some radius $r_0$ in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-11 R. V. E. Lovelace , M. M. Romanova

Vortices in protoplanetary disks have attracted attention since the discovery of lopsided structures. One of the possible mechanisms for producing vortices is the Rossby Wave Instability (RWI). In our previous work, we have performed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Tomohiro Ono , Takayuki Muto , Kengo Tomida , Zhaohuan Zhu

The Rossby wave instability (RWI) is the fundamental non-axisymmetric radial shear instability in disks. The RWI can facilitate disk accretion, set the shape of planetary gaps and produce large vortices. It arises from density and/or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-18 Eonho Chang , Andrew N. Youdin

Astrophysical disks with localized radial structure, such as protoplanetary disks containing dead zones or gaps due to disk-planet interaction, may be subject to the non-axisymmetric Rossby wave instability (RWI) that lead to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Min-Kai Lin

Rossby wave instabilities (RWIs) usually lead to nonaxisymmetric vortices in protoplanetary discs and some observed sub-structures of these discs can be well explained by RWIs. We explore how the cooling influences the growth rate of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Shunquan Huang , Cong Yu

The linear Rossby wave instability (RWI) in global, 3D polytropic discs is revisited with a much simpler numerical method than that previously employed by the author. The governing partial differential equation is solved with finite…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-26 Min-Kai Lin

Rings and gaps are routinely observed in the dust continuum emission of protoplanetary discs (PPDs). How they form and evolve remains debated. Previous studies have demonstrated the possibility of spontaneous gas rings and gaps formation in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-15 Chun-Yen Hsu , Zhi-Yun Li , Yisheng Tu , Xiao Hu , Min-Kai Lin

It has been suggested that the transition between magnetorotationally active and dead zones in protoplanetary disks should be prone to the excitation of vortices via Rossby wave instability (RWI). However, the only numerical evidence for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Wladimir Lyra , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

Large-scale persistent vortices are known to form easily in 2D disks via the Rossby wave or the baroclinic instability. In 3D, however, their formation and stability is a complex issue and still a matter of debate. We study the formation of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Samuel Richard , Pierre Barge , Stephane Le Dizes

The Rossby Wave Instability (RWI) has become an important concept in understanding the hydrodynamics (HDs) of accretion discs (ADs), especially in systems around black holes (BHs) where magnetic effects are either weak or absent. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-21 Bibhuti Bhusan Dutta , Liza Devi , Biplob Sarkar , Asish Jyoti Boruah

The physical mechanism of angular momentum transport in poorly ionized regions of protoplanetary discs, the dead zones (DZs), is not understood. The presence of a DZ naturally leads to conditions susceptible to the Rossby wave instability…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Ryan Miranda , Dong Lai , Heloise Meheut

The Rossby wave instability, associated with density bumps in differentially rotating discs, may arise in several different astrophysical contexts, such as galactic or protoplanetary discs. While the linear phase of the instability has been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 H. Meheut , R. V. E. Lovelace , D. Lai

In the context of planet formation, anticyclonic vortices have recently received lots of attention for the role they can play in planetesimals formation. Radial migration of intermediate size solids toward the central star may prevent their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 H. Meheut , R. Keppens , F. Casse , W. Benz

The Rossby wave instability (RWI) in non-self-gravitating discs can be triggered by a bump at a radius $r_0$ in the disc surface mass-density (which is proportional to the inverse potential vorticity). It gives rise to a growing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 R. V. E. Lovelace , R. G. Hohlfeld

We carry out two-fluid, two-dimensional global hydrodynamic simulations to test whether protostellar infall can trigger Rossby wave instability (RWI) in protoplanetry disks. Our results show that infall can trigger the RWI and generate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jaehan Bae , Lee Hartmann , Zhaohuan Zhu

Context. The formation of vortices in accretion disks is of high interest in various astrophysical contexts, in particular for planet formation or in the disks of compact objects. But despite numerous attempts it has thus far not been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 H. Meheut , F. Casse , P. Varniere , M. Tagger
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