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In earlier work we identified a global, non-axisymmetric instability associated with the presence of an extreme in the radial profile of the key function ${\cal L}(r) \equiv (\Sigma \Omega/\kappa^2) S^{2/\Gamma}$ in a thin, inviscid,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Li , J. M. Finn , R. V. E. Lovelace , S. A. Colgate

We study the stability of gaps opened by a giant planet in a self-gravitating protoplanetary disc. We find a linear instability associated with both the self-gravity of the disc and local vortensity maxima which coincide with gap edges. For…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Min-Kai Lin , John Papaloizou

The vertical shear instability (VSI) is a robust phenomenon in irradiated protoplanetary disks (PPDs). The majority of previous numerical simulations have focused on the turbulent properties of its saturated state. However, the saturation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Eleonora Svanberg , Can Cui , Henrik N. Latter

We investigate the gravitational interaction between low- to intermediate-mass planets ($M_p \in[0.06-210]\,M_{\oplus}$) and two previously formed pressure bumps in a gas-dust protoplanetary disc. We explore how the disc structure changes…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 R. O. Chametla , O. Chrenko

In the present work, we explore the Rossby mode instabilities in neutron stars as sources of gravitational waves. The intensity and time evolution of the emitted gravitational waves in terms of the amplitude of the strain tensor are…

(abridged) Context: The vertical shear instability (VSI) is a promising mechanism to generate turbulence and transport angular momentum in protoplanetary discs. While most recent work has focused on adding more complex physics, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Geoffroy Lesur , Henrik N. Latter , Gordon I. Ogilvie

Gravitational instabilities (GIs) are spiral distortions in a self-gravitating disk that appear wherever the local surface density and temperature become favorable for their growth. The restructuring of the disk as it becomes unstable, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Annie C. Mejia

We investigate the global nonaxisymmetric Rossby vortex instability in a differentially rotating, compressible magnetized accretion disk with radial density structures. Equilibrium magnetic fields are assumed to have only the toroidal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-11 Cong Yu , Hui Li

Inertial modes have been recently detected in the Sun via helioseismology, yet their origin, evolution, and role in the dynamics of the solar plasma and magnetic field remain poorly understood. In this study, we employ global numerical…

Ringed structures have been observed in a variety of protoplanetary discs. Among the processes that might be able to generate such features, the Secular Gravitational Instability (SGI) is a possible candidate. It has also been proposed that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Arnaud Pierens

Vortices have long been speculated to play a role in planet formation, via the collection of dust in the pressure maxima that arise at the cores of vortices in protoplanetary discs. The question remains however: as dust collects in the core…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-08 Francesco Lovascio , Sijme-Jan Paardekooper , Colin McNally

Many accretion discs have been found to be distorted: either warped due a misalignment in the system, or non-circular as a result of orbital eccentricity or tidal deformation by a binary companion. Warped, eccentric, and tidally distorted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-19 Loren E. Held , Gordon I. Ogilvie

We study particle dynamics in local two-dimensional simulations of self-gravitating accretion discs with a simple cooling law. It is well known that the structure which arises in the gaseous component of the disc due to a gravitational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. G. Gibbons , W. K. M. Rice , G. R. Mamatsashvili

We utilize zoom-in cosmological simulations to study the nature of violent disc instability (VDI) in clumpy galaxies at high redshift, $z=1$--$5$. Our simulated galaxies are not in the ideal state assumed in Toomre instability, of linear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 Shigeki Inoue , Avishai Dekel , Nir Mandelker , Daniel Ceverino , Frederic Bournaud , Joel Primack

In order to circumvent the loss of solid material through radial drift towards the central star, the trapping of dust inside persistent vortices in protoplanetary discs has often been suggested as a process that can eventually lead to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. D. Railton , J. C. B. Papaloizou

Past computational studies of planet-induced vortices have shown that the dust asymmetries associated with these vortices can be long-lived enough that they should be much more common in mm/sub-mm observations of protoplanetary discs, even…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Michael Hammer , Min-Kai Lin

We investigate the evolution of dust and gas in the vicinity of local pressure enhancements (pressure bumps) in a protoplanetary disc (PPD) with turbulence due to the Vertical Shear Instability (VSI). We perform global 2D axisymmetric and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Marius Lehmann , Min-Kai Lin

We investigate the linear growth and vertical structure of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in weakly ionised, stratified accretion discs. The magnetic field is initially vertical and dust grains are assumed to have settled towards…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Raquel Salmeron , Mark Wardle

Context: Planets are formed amidst young circumstellar disks of gas and dust. The latter is traced by thermal radiation, where strong asymmetric clumps were observed in a handful of cases. These dust traps could be key to understand the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-23 Clément Mathieu Tristan Robert , Héloïse Méheut , François Ménard

In this paper we analyse the propagation of warps in protostellar circumbinary discs. We use these systems as a test environment in which to study warp propagation in the bending-wave regime, with the addition of an external torque due to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Stefano Facchini , Giuseppe Lodato , Daniel J. Price