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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

The Rossby wave instability (RWI) is a promising mechanism for producing large-scale vortices in protoplanetary discs. The instability operates around a density bump in the disc, and the resulting vortices may facilitate planetesimal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 H. Meheut , C. Yu , D. Lai

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

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

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 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

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

Rossby wave instability (RWI) is considered the underlying mechanism to crescent-shaped azimuthal asymmetries, discovered in (sub-)millimeter dust continuum of many protoplanetary disks. Previous works on linear theory were conducted in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 Can Cui , Ashutosh Tripathi , Cong Yu , Min-Kai Lin , Andrew Youdin

Protoplanetary disks with non-axisymmetric structures have been observed. The Rossby wave instability (RWI) is considered as one of the origins of the non-axisymmetric structures. We perform linear stability analyses of the RWI in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 Tomohiro Ono , Takayuki Muto , Taku Takeuchi , Hideko Nomura

Rossby wave instability (RWI) at dead zone boundaries may play an important role in planet formation. Viscous hydrodynamics results suggest RWI is excited only when the viscosity changes over a radial distance less than two density scale…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-21 W. Lyra , N. Turner , C. McNally

Gas rich dusty circumstellar discs observed around young stellar objects are believed to be the birthplace of planets and planetary systems. Recent observations revealed that large-scale horseshoe-like brightness asymmetries are present in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 D. Tarczay-Nehéz , K. Rozgonyi , Zs. Regály

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

We have performed general relativistic hydrodynamics (GRHD) simulations of 2D discs orbiting around spinning black holes and prone to the Rossby Wave Instability (RWI). We show that the RWI can develop at any location in the disc and for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-19 F. Casse , P. Varniere

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

We use a multi-dimensional hydrodynamics code to study the gravitational interaction between an embedded planet and a protoplanetary disk with emphasis on the generation of vortensity (potential vorticity) through a Baroclinic Instability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shangli Ou , Jianghui Ji , Lin Liu , Xiaomeng Peng

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

Protoplanetary discs may become dynamically unstable due to structure induced by an embedded giant planet. In this thesis, I discuss the stability of such systems and explore the consequence of instability on planetary migration. I begin…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-23 Min-Kai Lin

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

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
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