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Orbits of known extrasolar planets that are located outside the tidal circularization regions of their parent stars are often substantially eccentric. By contrast, planetary orbits in our Solar System are approximately circular, reflecting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. I. Chiang , D. Fischer , E. Thommes

A theory is developed for the dynamics of eccentric perturbations $[\propto \exp(\pm i\phi)]$ of a disk galaxy residing in a spherical dark matter halo and including a spherical bulge component. The disk is represented as a large number $N$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. V. E. Lovelace , L. Zhang , D. A. Kornreich , M. P. Haynes

Super-Earths exist around subsolar-metallicity host stars with a frequency comparable to that around solar-metallicity stars, suggesting efficient assembly of dust grains even in metal-deficient environments. In this study, we propose a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 Ryoki Matsukoba , Eduard I. Vorobyov , Takashi Hosokawa

The building of planetary systems is controlled by the gas and dust dynamics of protoplanetary disks. While the gas is simultaneously accreted onto the central star and dissipated away by winds, dust grains aggregate and collapse to form…

Late in the gaseous phase of a protostellar disk, centimeter-sized bodies probably settle into a thin ``dust layer'' at the midplane. A velocity difference between the dust layer and the gas gives rise to turbulence, which prevents further…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Goodman , B. Pindor

Context: Pebble accretion is expected to be the dominant process for the formation of massive solid planets, such as the cores of giant planets and super-Earths. So, far, this process has been studied under the assumption that dust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Alessandro Morbidelli

From the survival of dust disks for a few Myr to the establishment of chemical dichotomy, dust traps are expected to play a pivotal role in sculpting protoplanetary disks and the early planet formation process. These traps however may not…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Pinghui Huang , Fangyuan Yu , Eve J. Lee , Ruobing Dong , Xue-Ning Bai

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

The streaming instability is the leading model for planetesimal formation in protoplanetary disks, but it typically operates within the first ~Myr. In the Solar System, however, some planetesimals (the chondrite parent bodies) formed 2-4…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-29 Maya Tatarelli , Alessandro Morbidelli , Elena Lega

In our previous work (Paper I), we demonstrated that coagulation instability results in dust concentration against depletion due to the radial drift and accelerates dust growth locally. In this work (Paper II), we perform numerical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Ryosuke T. Tominaga , Hidekazu Tanaka , Hiroshi Kobayashi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

In circumstellar discs, collisional grinding of planetesimals produces second-generation dust. While it remains unclear whether this ever becomes a major component of the total dust content, the presence of such dust, and potentially the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Spencer C. Wallace , Thomas. R. Quinn , Aaron C. Boley

Modelling the gravitational interaction between an eccentric perturber and a differentially shearing gas disc is a longstanding problem with various astrophysical applications, ranging from the evolution of planetary systems to the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Callum W. Fairbairn , Alexander J. Dittmann

Observations of the population of cold Jupiter planets ($r>$1 AU) show that nearly all of these planets orbit their host star on eccentric orbits. For planets up to a few Jupiter masses, eccentric orbits are thought to be the outcome of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Bertram Bitsch , Trifon Trifonov , Andre Izidoro

Spectroscopic observations of some metal-rich white dwarfs (WDs), believed to be polluted by planetary material, reveal the presence of compact gaseous metallic disks orbiting them. The observed variability of asymmetric, double-peaked…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Ryan Miranda , Roman R. Rafikov

Various instabilities have been proposed as a promising mechanism to accumulate dust. Moreover, some of them are expected to lead to the multiple-ring structure formation and the planetesimal formation in protoplanetary disks. In a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Ryosuke T. Tominaga , Sanemichi Z. Takahashi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Planets can affect debris disk structure by creating gaps, sharp edges, warps, and other potentially observable signatures. However, there is currently no simple way for observers to deduce a disk-shepherding planet's properties from the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Timothy J. Rodigas , Renu Malhotra , Philip M. Hinz

Resonant Drag Instabilities (RDIs) in protoplanetary discs are driven by the aerodynamic back-reaction of dust on gas and occur when the relative dust-gas motion resonate with a wave mode intrinsic to the gas fluid. Axisymmetric models…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-17 Raúl O. Chametla , Yasuhiro Hasegawa , Gennaro D'Angelo

Debris disc analysis and modelling provide crucial information about the structure and the processes at play in extrasolar planetary systems. In binary systems, this issue is more complex because the disc should in addition respond to the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Philippe Thebault , Francesco Marzari , Jean-Charles Augereau

Enhancing the local dust-to-gas ratio in protoplanetary discs is a necessary first step to planetesimal formation. In laminar discs, dust settling is an efficient mechanism to raise the dust-to-gas ratio at the disc midplane. However,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Min-Kai Lin

Recent observations have shown that circumbinary discs can be misaligned with respect to the binary orbital plane.The lack of spherical symmetry, together with the non-planar geometry of these systems, causes differential precession which…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Cristiano Longarini , Giuseppe Lodato , Claudia Toci , Hossam Aly
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