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Protoplanetary disks exhibit a rich variety of substructure in millimeter continuum emission, often attributed to unseen planets. As these planets carve gaps in the gas, dust particles can accumulate in the resulting pressure bumps, forming…

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 processes of planet formation and migration depend intimately on the interaction between planetesimals and the gaseous disks in which they form. The formation of gaps in the disk can severely limit the mass of the planet and its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Wayne F. Winters , Steven A. Balbus , John F. Hawley

Discoveries of gaps in data have been important in astrophysics. For example, there are kinematic gaps opened by resonances in dynamical systems, or exoplanets of a certain radius that are empirically rare. A gap in a data set is a kind of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 Gabriella Contardo , David W. Hogg , Jason A. S. Hunt , Joshua E. G. Peek , Yen-Chi Chen

Context. More than 60 planets have been discovered so far in systems that harbour two stars, some of which have binary semi-major axes as small as 20 au. It is well known that the formation of planets in such systems is strongly influenced…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-25 M. Gyergyovits , S. Eggl , E. Pilat - Lohinger , Ch. Theis

Recent ALMA observations discovered consequent amounts (i.e., up to a few $10^{-1}\; \rm M_\oplus$) of CO gas in debris disks that were expected to be gas-free. This gas is in general estimated to be mostly composed of CO, C, and O (i.e.,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-22 C. Bergez-Casalou , Q. Kral

Emission substructures in gas and dust are common in protoplanetary disks. Such substructures can be linked to planet formation or planets themselves. We explore the observed gas substructures in AS 209 using thermochemical modeling with…

Aims: We investigate the behaviour of dust in protoplanetary disks under the action of gas drag in the presence of a planet. Our goal is twofold: to determine the spatial distribution of dust depending on grain size and planet mass, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Fouchet , S. T. Maddison , J. -F. Gonzalez , J. R. Murray

Recent observations demonstrate that misalignments and other out-of-plane structures are common in protoplanetary discs. Many of these have been linked to a central host binary with an orbit that is inclined with respect to the disc. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-14 Alison K. Young , Struan Stevenson , C. J. Nixon , Ken Rice

Forming giant planets are accompanied by circumplanetary disks, as indicated by considerations of angular momentum conservation, observations of candidate protoplanets, and the satellite systems of planets in our Solar System. This paper…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-01 Fred C. Adams , Konstantin Batygin

Recent mm-wavelength surveys performed with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) have revealed protoplanetary discs characterized by rings and gaps. A possible explanation for the origin of such rings is the tidal interaction with an…

Protoplanetary discs are now routinely observed and exoplanets, after the numerous indirect discoveries, are starting to be directly imaged. To better understand the planet formation process, the next step is the detection of forming…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Jean-François Gonzalez , Guillaume Laibe , Sarah T. Maddison , Christophe Pinte , François Ménard

The widespread rings and gaps seen in the dust continuum in protoplanetary disks are sometimes accompanied by similar substructures seen in molecular line emission. One example is the outer gap at 100 au in AS 209, which shows that the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Grigorii V. Smirnov-Pinchukov , Dmitry A. Semenov , Vitaly V. Akimkin , Thomas Henning

The detection of planets in protoplanetary disks has proven to be extremely challenging. In contrast, rings and gaps, usually attributed to planet-disk interactions, have been found in virtually every large protoplanetary (Class II) disk…

We suggest and verify a new photometric method enabling derivation of relative thickness of a galactic disk from two-dimensional surface-brightness distribution of the galaxy in the plane of the sky. The method is applied to images of 45…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Ekaterina M. Chudakova , Olga K. Sil'chenko

We couple non-magnetic, hydrodynamical simulations of collapsing protostellar cores with radiative transfer evolutionary models to generate synthetic observations. We then use these synthetic observations to investigate the extent to which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Michael M. Dunham , Eduard I. Vorobyov , Héctor G. Arce

Gravitational instability is one of considerable mechanisms to explain the formation of giant planets. We study the gravitational stability for the protoplanetary disks around a protostar. The temperature and Toomre's Q-value are calculated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-18 Shigeo S. Kimura , Toru Tsuribe

Spatially resolved images of debris disks frequently reveal complex morphologies such as gaps, spirals, and warps. Most existing models for explaining such morphologies focus on the role of massive perturbers (i.e. planets, stellar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Antranik A. Sefilian , Roman R. Rafikov , Mark C. Wyatt

Circumstellar disks are considered to be the birthplace of planets. Specific structures like spiral arms, gaps, and cavities are characteristic indicators of planet-disk interaction. Investigating these structures can provide insights into…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-08 F. Ober , S. Wolf , A. L. Uribe , H. H. Klahr

We present a detailed surface density analysis of a large sample of simulated collisionless mergers of disc galaxies with bulges (mass ratios 1:1, 2:1, 3:1, 4:1, and 6:1) and without bulges (mass ratios 1:1 and 3:1). They were classified,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Thorsten Naab , Ignacio Trujillo