English
Related papers

Related papers: Protoplanetary Disk Heating and Evolution Driven b…

200 papers

We present a series of 2-d ($r,\phi$) hydrodynamic simulations of marginally self gravitating disks around protostars using an SPH code. We implement simple dynamical heating and we cool each location as a black body, using a photosphere…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Andrew F. Nelson , Willy Benz , Tamara Ruzmaikina

We test the effect of assumptions about stellar motion on the behavior of gravitational instabilities in protoplanetary disks around solar-type stars by performing two simulations that are identical in all respects except the treatment of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Scott Michael , R. H. Durisen

It is known that the external irradiation of protoplanetary disks by nearby massive stars can result in mass loss that impacts the disk evolution, however the dynamical impact of external irradiation upon the disk itself has not been…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Alexandros Ziampras , Lin Qiao , Thomas J. Haworth

Many protoplanetary disks exhibit annular gaps in dust emission, which may be produced by planets. Simulations of planet-disk interaction aimed at interpreting these observations often treat the disk thermodynamics in an overly simplified…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Ryan Miranda , Roman R. Rafikov

We study the dependence of protoplanetary disk evolution on stellar mass using a large sample of young stellar objects in nearby young star-forming regions. We update the protoplanetary disk fractions presented in our recent work (paper I…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Álvaro Ribas , Hervé Bouy , Bruno Merín

Observations of protoplanetary disks show that some characteristics seem recurrent, even in star formation regions that are physically distant such as surface mass density profiles varying as $r^{-1}$, or aspect ratios about 0.03 to 0.23.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-12 Kévin Baillié , Sébastien Charnoz

Recent surveys show that protoplanetary disks have lower levels of turbulence than expected based on their observed accretion rates. A viable solution to this is that magnetized disk winds dominate angular momentum transport. This has…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Matthew Alessi , Ralph E. Pudritz

Protoplanetary disks are believed to accrete onto their central T Tauri star because of magnetic stresses. Recently published shearing box simulations indicate that Ohmic resistivity, ambipolar diffusion and the Hall effect all play…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Oliver Gressel , Neal J. Turner , Richard P. Nelson , Colin P. McNally

Irradiation from the central star controls the temperature structure in protoplanetary discs. Yet simulations of gravitational instability typically use models of stellar irradiation with varying complexity, or ignore it altogether,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-18 Sahl Rowther , Daniel J. Price , Christophe Pinte , Rebecca Nealon , Farzana Meru , Richard Alexander

We present two-dimensional inviscid hydrodynamic simulations of a protoplanetary disk with an embedded planet, emphasizing the evolution of potential vorticity (the ratio of vorticity to density) and its dependence on numerical resolutions.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Li , S. Li , J. Koller , B. Wendroff , R. Liska , C. Orban , E. Liang , D. Lin

Heating by the central star is one of the key factors determining the physical structure of protoplanetary disks. Due to the large optical thickness in the radial direction, disk midplane regions are heated by the infrared radiation from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Ya. N. Pavlyuchenkov , L. A. Maksimova , V. V. Akimkin

Protoplanetary disk ice lines shape a multitude of planet formation processes, setting the environmental composition through evolution. Ice line locations depend on molecular sublimation and deposition properties, but in dynamic disks where…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Elizabeth Yunerman , Ellen Price , Karin Öberg

In this article, we proceed to study convection as a possible factor of episodic accretion in protoplanetary disks. Within the model presented in Article~I, the accretion history is analyzed at different rates and areas of matter inflow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-17 L. A. Maksimova , Ya. N. Pavlyuchenkov , A. V. Tutukov

After protoplanets have acquired sufficient mass to open partial gaps in their natal protostellar disks, residual gas continues to diffuse onto horseshoe streamlines under effect of viscous dissipation, and meander in and out of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Ya-Ping Li , Yi-Xian Chen , Douglas N. C. Lin , Xiaojia Zhang

We carry out a large set of very high resolution, three dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations describing the evolution of gravitationally unstable gaseous protoplanetary disks. We consider a broad range of initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lucio Mayer , Thomas Quinn , James Wadsley , Joachim Stadel

We use high resolution 3D SPH simulations to study the evolution of self-gravitating binary protoplanetary disks. Heating by shocks and cooling are included. We consider different orbital separations and masses of the disks and central…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Lucio Mayer , James Wadsley , Thomas Quinn , Joachim Stadel

While planets in the solar system only have a low inclination with respect to the ecliptic there is mounting evidence that in extrasolar systems the inclination can be very high, at least for close-in planets. One process to alter the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-09 Bertram Bitsch , Willy Kley

In mass-transferring wide binary stellar systems, the companion star can capture some of the mass released in wind by the primary evolved star, and form an accretion disk. Such accretion disks could evolve to form disks of comparable…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-19 Raffaele S. Cattolico , Hagai B. Perets

In the early stages of a protoplanetary disk, when its mass is a significant fraction of its star's, turbulence generated by gravitational instability (GI) should feature significantly in the disk's evolution. At the same time, the disk may…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 Hongping Deng , Lucio Mayer , Henrik Latter

The formation of a circumplanetary disk and accretion of angular momentum onto a protoplanetary system are investigated using 3D hydrodynamical simulations. The local region around a protoplanet in a protoplanetary disk is considered with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-16 Masahiro N. Machida