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We present 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) numerical simulations of the evolution of self--gravitating and weakly magnetized disks with an adiabatic equation of state. Such disks are subject to the development of both the magnetorotational and…

We study dust transport in turbulent protoplanetary disks using three-dimensional global unstratified magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations including Lagrangian dust particles. The turbulence is driven by the magnetorotational instability…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Zhaohuan Zhu , James M. Stone , Xue-Ning Bai

Ionization occurs in the upper atmospheres of hot Jupiters and in the interiors of Gas Giant Planets, leading to magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effects which couple the momentum and the magnetic field, thereby significantly altering the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-12 Santiago J. Benavides , Glenn R. Flierl

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) has been proposed as the method of angular momentum transport that enables accretion in astrophysical discs. However, for weakly-ionized discs, such as protoplanetary discs, it remains unclear whether…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-15 Amy Secunda , Peter Donnel , Hantao Ji , Jeremy Goodman

We present a method for calculating the radiative tranfer on a protoplanetary disk perturbed by a protoplanet. We apply this method to determine the effect on the temperature structure within the photosphere of a passive circumstellar disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hannah Jang-Condell , Dimitar D. Sasselov

Turbulence has a profound impact on the evolution of gas and dust in protoplanetary disks (PPDs), from driving the collisions and the diffusion of dust grains, to the concentration of pebbles in giant vortices, thus, facilitating…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-19 Thomas Pfeil , Hubert Klahr

We use a global magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a geometrically thin accretion disk to investigate the locality and detailed structure of turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI). The model disk has an aspect ratio $H…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Kris Beckwith , Philip J. Armitage , Jacob B. Simon

The inner regions of protoplanetary discs, which encompass the putative habitable zone, are dynamically complex, featuring a relatively well-ionised, turbulent active zone located interior to a poorly ionised 'dead' zone. In this second…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Matthew J. O. Roberts , Henrik N. Latter , Geoffroy Lesur

We performed 3D MHD simulations of planet migration in stratified disks using the Godunov code PLUTO, where the disk is turbulent due to the magnetorotational instability. We study the migration for planets with different planet-star mass…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 Ana Uribe , Hubert Klahr , Mario Flock , Thomas Henning

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

We investigate where in protoplanetary disks magnetorotational instability operates, which can cause angular momentum transport in the disks. We investigate the spatial distribution of various charged particles and the unstable regions for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Takayoshi Sano , Shoken M. Miyama , Toyoharu Umebayashi , Takenori Nakano

Aims and Methods. Accretion bursts triggered by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in the innermost disk regions were studied for protoplanetary gas-dust disks formed from prestellar cores of various mass $M_{\rm core}$ and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Eduard Vorobyov , Sergey Khaibrakhmanov , Shantanu Basu , Marc Audard

Giant planets embedded in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) can create annulus density gaps around their orbits in the type-II regime, potentially responsible for the ubiquity of annular substructures observed in PPDs. Despite of substantial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-23 Yuhiko Aoyama , Xuening Bai

Weakly ionized protoplanetary disks (PPDs) are subject to non-ideal-magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effects including Ohmic resistivity, the Hall effect and ambipolar diffusion (AD), and the resulting magnetic diffusivities ($\eta_O, \eta_H$ and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 Rui Xu , Xue-Ning Bai

This is the first of a series of papers aimed at developing and interpreting simulations of protoplanets interacting with turbulent accretion discs. Here we study the disc models prior to the introduction of a protoplanet.We study models in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 John C. B. Papaloizou , Richard P. Nelson

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations have been used to study disk accretion to a rotating magnetized star with an aligned dipole moment. Quiescent initial conditions were developed in order to avoid the fast initial evolution seen in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. M. Romanova , G. V. Ustyugova , A. V. Koldoba , R. V. E. Lovelace

The intracluster medium (ICM) is stably stratified in the hydrodynamic sense with the entropy $s$ increasing outwards. However, thermal conduction along magnetic field lines fundamentally changes the stability of the ICM, leading to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Sharma , B. D. G. Chandran , E. Quataert , I. J. Parrish

In two previous publications$^{1,2}$, we have demonstrated that stationary rotation of magnetized plasma about a compact central object permits an enormous number of different MHD instabilities, with the well-known magneto-rotational…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans Goedbloed , Rony Keppens

We test a new technique of studying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence suggested by Lazarian \& Pogosyan, using synthetic synchrotron polarization observations. This paper focuses on a one-point statistics, which is termed the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 Jian-Fu Zhang , Alex Lazarian , Hyeseung Lee , Jungyeon Cho

Global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities are investigated in a computationally tractable two-dimensional model of the solar tachocline. The model's differential rotation yields stability in the absence of a magnetic field, but if a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Abigail Plummer , J. B. Marston , S. M. Tobias
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