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Spinning planetesimals in a gaseous protoplanetary disk may experience a hydrodynamical force perpendicular to their relative velocities. We examine the effect this force has on the dynamics of these objects using analytical arguments based…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 John C. Forbes

Dust particles sediment toward the midplanes of protoplanetary disks, forming dust-rich sublayers encased in gas. What densities must the particle sublayer attain before it can fragment by self-gravity? We describe various candidate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ji-Ming Shi , Eugene Chiang

Among the candidates for generating turbulence in accretion discs in situations with low intrinsic ionization the vertical shear instability (VSI) has become an interesting candidate, as it relies purely on a vertical gradient in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Moritz H. R. Stoll , Wilhelm Kley

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

Imaging of the dust continuum emitted from disks around nearby protostars reveals diverse substructure. In recent years, theoretical efforts have been intensified to investigate how far the intrinsic dynamics of protoplanetary disks (PPDs)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-31 Leonardo Krapp , Oliver Gressel , Pablo Benítez-Llambay , Turlough P. Downes , Gopakumar Mohandas , Martin E. Pessah

This paper considers gravitational perturbations in geometrically thin disks with rotation curves dominated by a central object, but with substantial contributions from magnetic pressure and tension. The treatment is general, but the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Susana Lizano , Daniele Galli , Mike J. Cai , Fred C. Adams

Context. In Class 0/I and the outskirts of Class II circumstellar discs, the self-gravity of gas significantly affects the disc's vertical hydrostatic equilibrium. The contribution of dust, whose measured mass is still uncertain, could…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 S. Rendon Restrepo , U. Ziegler , M. Villenave , O. Gressel

The discovery of wide-orbit giant exoplanets has posed a challenge to our conventional understanding of planet formation by coagulation of dust grains and planetesimals, and subsequent accretion of protoplanetary disk gas. As an alternative…

We investigate the simultaneous evolution of dust and gas density profiles at a radial pressure bump located in a protoplanetary disk. If dust particles are treated as test particles, a radial pressure bump traps dust particles that drift…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Tetsuo Taki , Masaki Fujimoto , Shigeru Ida

The dynamics of planetesimals and planetary cores may be strongly influenced by density perturbations driven by magneto-rotational turbulence in their natal protoplanetary gas disks. Using the local shearing box approximation, we perform…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-15 Chao-Chin Yang , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Kristen Menou

Gas and dust in inclined orbits around binaries experience precession induced by the binary gravitational torque. The difference in precession between gas and dust alters the radial drift of weakly coupled dust and leads to density…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Hossam Aly , Jean-François Gonzalez , Rebecca Nealon , Cristiano Longarini , Giuseppe Lodato , Daniel J. Price

Gravitational instability (GI) of a dust-rich layer at the midplane of a gaseous circumstellar disk is one proposed mechanism to form planetesimals, the building blocks of rocky planets and gas giant cores. Self-gravity competes against the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Aaron T. Lee , Eugene Chiang , Xylar Asay-Davis , Joseph Barranco

We present local simulations that verify the linear streaming instability that arises from aerodynamic coupling between solids and gas in protoplanetary disks. This robust instability creates enhancements in the particle density in order to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Andrew Youdin , Anders Johansen

(abridged) Vortices are believed to play a role in the formation of km-sized planetesimals. However, vortex dynamics is commonly studied in non-self-gravitating discs. The main goal here is to examine the effects of disc self-gravity on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. R. Mamatsashvili , W. K. M. Rice

The formation of planetesimals via gravitational instability of the dust layer in a protoplanetary disks demands that there be local patches where dust is concentrated by a factor of $\sim$ a few $\times 10^3$ over the background value.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Philip Chang , Jeffrey S. Oishi

Planetesimals in gaseous protoplanetary disks may grow by collecting dust particles. Hydrodynamical studies show that small particles generally avoid collisions with the planetesimals because they are entrained by the flow around them. This…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 H. Homann , T. Guillot , J. Bec , C. W. Ormel , S. Ida , P. Tanga

We investigate the gravitational instability (GI) of dust-ring structures and the formation of planetesimals by their gravitational collapse. The normalized dispersion relation of a self-gravitating ring structure includes two parameters…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Sanemichi Z. Takahashi , Eiichiro Kokubo , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

The results of an extensive numerical study of the orbital dynamics of small bodies ranging from micron-sized dust grains to 1 km objects subject to gas drag and also the gravitational attraction of a non-uniform gaseous nebula are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nader Haghighipour

The interaction between gas and dust in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) plays a crucial role in setting the stage of planet formation. In particular, the streaming instability (SI) is well recognized as the mechanism for planetesimal formation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-25 Pinghui Huang , Xue-Ning Bai

Turbulence in protoplanetary disks affects dust evolution and planetesimal formation. The vertical shear instability (VSI) is one of the candidate turbulence-driving mechanisms in the outer disk region. Since the VSI requires rapid gas…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yuya Fukuhara , Mario Flock , Satoshi Okuzumi , Ryosuke T. Tominaga