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Turbulent motion driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) is believed to provide an anomalous viscosity strong enough to account for observed accretion rates in protostellar accretion disks. In the first of two papers, we perform…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Wayne O'Keeffe , Turlough P. Downes

We study wakes and gap opening by low mass planets in gaseous protoplanetary disks threaded by net vertical magnetic fields which drive magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) turbulence through the magnetorotational instabilty (MRI), using three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Zhaohuan Zhu , James M. Stone , Roman R. Rafikov

The destabilising effect of Hall diffusion in a Keplerian disc allows the MRI to occur for much lower ionisation levels than would otherwise be possible. However, simulations suggest that the consequences for the saturated state are not as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Mark Wardle , Raquel Salmeron

Recent observations suggest late accretion, which is generally nonaxisymmetric, onto protoplanetary disks. We investigated nonaxisymmetric late accretion considering the effects of magnetic fields. Our model assumes a cloudlet encounter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-27 Masaki Unno , Tomoyuki Hanawa , Shinsuke Takasao

Protoplanetary discs are made of gas and dust orbiting a young star. They are also the birth place of planetary systems, which motivates a large amount of observational and theoretical research. In these lecture notes, I present a review of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-03 G. Lesur

We present global hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations with mesh refinement of accreting planets embedded in protoplanetary disks (PPDs). The magnetized disk includes Ohmic resistivity that depends on the overlying mass…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Oliver Gressel , Richard P. Nelson , Neal J. Turner , Udo Ziegler

Understanding the complex evolution of protoplanetary disks (PPDs) and their dispersal via energetic stellar radiation are prominent challenges in astrophysics. It has recently been established that specifically the X-ray luminosity from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Eleftheria Sarafidou , Oliver Gressel , Giovanni Picogna , Barbara Ercolano

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

Recent observations of gaps and non-axisymmetric features in the dust distributions of transition disks have been interpreted as evidence of embedded massive protoplanets. However, comparing the predictions of planet-disk interaction models…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Alexander J. W. Richert , Wladimir Lyra , Aaron Boley , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Neal Turner

Recent high resolution observations unveil ring structures in circumstellar disks. The origin of these rings has been widely investigated under various theoretical scenarios. In this work we perform global 3D non-ideal MHD simulations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-31 Xiao Hu , Zhaohuan Zhu , Satoshi Okuzumi , Xue-Ning Bai , Lile Wang , Kengo Tomida , James M. Stone

Turbulence is a complex physical process prevalent in modern physics, particularly in ionized environments like interstellar gas, where magnetic fields play a dynamic role. However, the precise influence of magnetic fields in such settings…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-12 Guang-Xing Li , Mengke Zhao

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

The stresses produced by magnetorotational turbulence can provide effective angular momentum transport in accretion disks. However, questions remain about the ability of simulated disks to reproduce observationally inferred…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 E. R. Parkin

We examine the linear stability of a flow threaded by a weak, vertical magnetic field in a disk with a keplerian rotation profile and a vertical stratification of the ionization degree as that predicted for vast portions of protoplanetary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mauricio Reyes-Ruiz

Magnetic fields play an important role in astrophysical accretion discs, and in the interstellar and intergalactic medium. They drive jets, suppress fragmentation in star-forming clouds and can have a significant impact on the accretion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 Christoph Federrath

By constructing a global model based on 3D local magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations, we show that the disk wind driven by magnetorotational instability (MRI) plays a significant role in the dispersal of the gas component of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Takeru K. Suzuki , Takayuki Muto , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Radial substructures have now been observed in a wide range of protoplanetary discs (PPDs), from young to old systems, however their formation is still an area of vigorous debate. Recent magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations have shown that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-25 C. A. Nolan , B. Zhao , P. Caselli , Z. Y. Li

The mechanisms of angular momentum transport and level of turbulence in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) are crucial for understanding many aspects of planet formation. In the recent years, it has been realized that the magneto-rotational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Can Cui , Xue-Ning Bai

We investigate the effect of magnetic fields on the propagation dynamics and morphology of overdense, radiatively cooling, supermagnetosonic jets, with the help of fully three-dimensional SPMHD simulations. Evaluated for a set of parameters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Adriano H. Cerqueira , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

Using 2D MHD numerical simulations performed with two different finite difference Eulerian codes, we analyze the effect that a toroidal magnetic field has on low mass planet migration in nonturbulent protoplanetary discs. The presence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sebastien Fromang , Caroline Terquem , Richard P. Nelson