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The streaming instability is thought to play a central role in the early stages of planet formation by enabling the efficient bypass of a number of barriers hindering the formation of planetesimals. We present the first study exploring the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Leonardo Krapp , Pablo Benítez-Llambay , Oliver Gressel , Martin E. Pessah

The streaming instability (SI) is a leading mechanism for planetesimal formation, driving the aerodynamic concentration of solids in protoplanetary disks. The SI triggers strong clumping (i.e., strong enough for clumps to collapse) when the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Jeonghoon Lim , Jacob B. Simon , Rixin Li , Olivia Brouillette , David G. Rea , Wladimir Lyra

Stability analysis of two-fluid protoplanetary disc models has enriched our understanding of how solids can grow into larger bodies called planetesimals. Dust particles entrained in a gas stream modify the flow, creating shear layers prone…

We introduce a polydisperse version of the streaming instability, where the dust component is treated as a continuum of sizes. We show that its behaviour is remarkably different from the monodisperse streaming instability. We focus on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Sijme-Jan Paardekooper , Colin P. McNally , Francesco Lovascio

Stellar flybys are a common dynamical process in young stellar clusters and can significantly reshape protoplanetary discs. However, their impact on dust dynamics remains poorly understood, particularly in the weakly coupled regime…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Wei-Shan Su , Jeremy L. Smallwood , Min-Kai Lin , Chao-Chin Yang , Nicolás Cuello

The recently discovered resonant drag instability (RDI) of dust streaming in protoplanetary disc is considered as the mode coupling of subsonic gas-dust mixture perturbations. This mode coupling is coalescence of two modes with nearly equal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 V. V. Zhuravlev

The streaming instability is a promising mechanism to drive the formation of planetesimals in protoplanetary disks. To trigger this process, it has been argued that sedimentation of solids onto the mid-plane needs to be efficient and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Chao-Chin Yang , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Anders Johansen

The streaming instability is considered one of the leading candidates for the formation of planetesimals, due to its ability to overcome the bouncing and fragmentation barriers. The formation of dense dust clumps through this process,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Arnaud Pierens , Thomas Collin-Dufresne , Min-Kai Lin , Emmanuel DiFolco

In this paper, we investigate whether overdensity formation via streaming instability is consistent with recent multi-wavelength ALMA observations in the Lupus star forming region. We simulate the local action of streaming instability in 2D…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Chiara E. Scardoni , Richard A. Booth , Cathie J. Clarke

We introduce a new technique to determine the gas turbulence and surface density in bright disc rings, under the assumption that dust growth is limited by turbulent fragmentation at the ring centre. We benchmark this prescription in HD…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-16 Francesco Zagaria , Cathie J. Clarke , Richard A. Booth , Stefano Facchini , Giovanni P. Rosotti

We present a new multi-fluid, grid MHD code PIERNIK, which is based on the Relaxing TVD scheme (Jin & Xin, 1995). The original scheme (see Trac & Pen (2003) and Pen et al. (2003)) has been extended by an addition of dynamically independent,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-07-25 Michał Hanasz , Kacper Kowalik , Dominik Wóltański , Rafał Pawłaszek

We present a series of simulations of turbulent stratified protostellar discs with the goal of characterizing the settling of dust throughout a minimum-mass solar nebula. We compare the evolution of both compact spherical grains, as well as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 D. A. Tilley , D. S. Balsara , S. D. Brittain , T. Rettig

The Streaming Instability (SI) is a mechanism to concentrate solids in protoplanetary disks. Nonlinear particle clumping from the SI can trigger gravitational collapse into planetesimals. To better understand the numerical robustness of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 Rixin Li , Andrew N. Youdin , Jacob B. Simon

A growing planet embedded in a protoplanetary disk induces three-dimensional gas flow, which exhibits a midplane outflow that can suppress dust accretion onto the planet and form global dust substructures (rings and gaps). Because analytic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-06 Ayumu Kuwahara , Hiroyuki Kurokawa

The regions of protoplanetary discs where planets can form are believed to be weakly ionised, suggesting thereby that non-ideal magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) effects play an important role in the disc dynamics and in the planet formation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Arnaud Pierens , Min-Kai Lin

The interaction between gas and dust in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) plays a crucial role in setting the stage of planet formation. In particular, the streaming instability (SI) is well recognized as the mechanism for planetesimal formation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-25 Pinghui Huang , Xue-Ning Bai

Streaming instability is considered to be one of the dominant processes to promote planetesimal formation by gravitational collapse of dust clumps. The development of streaming instability is expected to form dust clumps in which the local…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-10 Ryosuke T. Tominaga , Hidekazu Tanaka

Planet formation via core accretion requires the production of km-sized planetesimals from cosmic dust. This process must overcome barriers to simple collisional growth, for which the Streaming Instability (SI) is often invoked. Dust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Colin P. McNally , Francesco Lovascio , Sijme-Jan Paardekooper

We present a new multi-fluid, grid MHD code PIERNIK, which is based on the Relaxing TVD scheme (Jin & Xin, 1995). The original scheme (see Trac & Pen (2003) and Pen et al. (2003)) has been extended by an addition of dynamically independent,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-25 Michał Hanasz , Kacper Kowalik , Dominik Wóltański , Rafał Pawłaszek

The streaming instability is a promising mechanism to overcome the barriers in direct dust growth and lead to the formation of planetesimals. Most previous studies of the streaming instability, however, were focused on a local region of a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Chao-Chin Yang , Anders Johansen