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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

A linear stability analysis has been performed onto a self-gravitating magnetized gas disk bounded by external pressure. The resulting dispersion relation is fully explained by three kinds of instability: a Parker-type instability driven by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sang Min Lee , Seung Soo Hong

We present two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of self-gravitating protostellar disks subject to axisymmetric infall from envelopes and irradiation from the central star, to explore disk fragmentation due to gravitational instability…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Zhaohuan Zhu , Lee Hartmann , Richard P. Nelson , Charles F. Gammie

A magnetic disc wind is an important mechanism that may be responsible for driving accretion and structure formation in protoplanetary discs. Recent numerical simulations have shown that these winds can take either the traditional…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Philip Kwong Ching Leung , Gordon I. Ogilvie

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is considered a key process for driving efficient angular momentum transport in astrophysical disks. Understanding its non-linear saturation constitutes a fundamental problem in modern accretion disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-25 Martin E. Pessah

Magnetic effects have long been considered a possible factor in stabilizing the outer regions of active galactic nuclei (AGN) accretion disks against gravitational instability (GI). However, the computational demands of testing this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Hannalore J. Gerling-Dunsmore , Mitchell C. Begelman , Jacob B. Simon , Philip J. Armitage

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) can destabilize hydrodynamically stable rotational flows, thereby allowing angular momentum transport in accretion disks. A notorious problem for MRI is its questionable applicability in regions with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 Oleg N. Kirillov , Frank Stefani

We present a study of instabilities occuring in thick magnetized accretion disks. We calculate the growth rates of these instabilities and characterise precisely the contribution of the magneto-rotational and the convective mechanism. All…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eric van der Swaluw , Jan-Willem Blokland , Rony Keppens

We consider the linear axisymmetric stability of a differentially rotating collisionless plasma in the presence of a weak magnetic field; we restrict our analysis to wavelengths much larger than the proton Larmor radius. This is the kinetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eliot Quataert , William Dorland , Greg Hammett

The magneto-rotational instability is presently the most promising source of turbulent transport in accretion disks. However, some important issues still need to be addressed to quantify the role of MRI in disks; in particular no systematic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 G. Lesur , P-Y. Longaretti

The saturation level of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) is investigated using three-dimensional MHD simulations. The shearing box approximation is adopted and the vertical component of gravity is ignored, so that the evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takayoshi Sano , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Neal J. Turner , James M. Stone

Magnetorotational instability (MRI) has a potential to generate the vigorous turbulence in protoplanetary disks, although its turbulence strength and accretion stress remains debatable because of the uncertainty of MRI with low ionization…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Shoji Mori , Takayuki Muranushi , Satoshi Okuzumi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

In the early stages of star formation, boundary layer accretion, where protostars accrete material from disks extending down to their surfaces, plays a crucial role. Understanding how a magneto-rotational-instability (MRI)-active disk…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-20 Shinsuke Takasao , Takashi Hosokawa , Kengo Tomida , Kazunari Iwasaki

This paper considers gravitational perturbations in geometrically thin disks with rotation curves dominated by a central object, but with substantial contributions from magnetic pressure and tension. The treatment is general, but the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Susana Lizano , Daniele Galli , Mike J. Cai , Fred C. Adams

We investigate the linear growth and vertical structure of the MRI in protoplanetary discs when dust grains are well mixed with the gas over the entire disc thickness. All the grains have the same radius (a = 0.1, 1 or 3 micron) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Raquel Salmeron , Mark Wardle

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

The spectral stability of liquid metal differentially rotating in transverse magnetic field is studied numerically by solving the eigenvalue problem with rigid-wall boundary conditions. The equilibrium velocity profile used in calculations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-09 I. V. Khalzov , A. I. Smolyakov , V. I. Ilgisonis

Although the magnetorotational instability (MRI) has been widely accepted as a powerful accretion mechanism in magnetized accretion disks, it has not been realized in the laboratory. The possibility of studying MRI in a rotating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Hantao Ji , Jeremy Goodman , Akira Kageyama

We investigate the significance of large scale azimuthal, magnetic and velocity modes for the MRI turbulence in accretion disks. We perform 3D global ideal MHD simulations of global stratified proto-planetary disk models. Our domains span…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Flock , N. Dzyurkevich , H. Klahr , N. Turner , Th. Henning

We venture for the comparison between growth rates for magnetorotational instability (MRI) and hydrodynamics instability in the presence of an extra force in the local Keplerian accretion flow. The underlying model is described by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-27 Subham Ghosh , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay