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MHD turbulence plays a crucial role in the dust dynamics of protoplanetary discs. It affects planet formation, vertical settling and is one possible origin of the large scale axisymmetric structures, such as rings, recently imaged by ALMA…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-03 A. Riols , G. Lesur

We utilize zoom-in cosmological simulations to study the nature of violent disc instability (VDI) in clumpy galaxies at high redshift, $z=1$--$5$. Our simulated galaxies are not in the ideal state assumed in Toomre instability, of linear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 Shigeki Inoue , Avishai Dekel , Nir Mandelker , Daniel Ceverino , Frederic Bournaud , Joel Primack

At the time of formation, protoplanetary discs likely contain a comparable mass to their host protostars. As a result, gravitational instabilities (GIs) are expected to play a pivotal role in the early phases of disc evolution. However, as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 M. G. Evans , T. W. Hartquist , P. Caselli , A. C. Boley , J. D. Ilee , J. M. C. Rawlings

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

We have performed time-dependent numerical simulations of the interstellar medium (ISM) which account for galactic shear and magnetic fields, vertical gravity, and a radiative cooling function for atomic gas. This allows us to study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Robert A. Piontek , Eve C. Ostriker

Hydromagnetic stresses in accretion discs have been the subject of intense theoretical research over the past one and a half decades. Most of the disc simulations have assumed a small initial magnetic field and studied the turbulence that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anders Johansen , Yuri Levin

We examine whether the magnetorotational instability (MRI) can serve as a mechanism of angular momentum transport in circumplanetary disks. For the MRI to operate the ionization degree must be sufficiently high and the magnetic pressure…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yuri I. Fujii , Satoshi Okuzumi , Takayuki Tanigawa , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

The redistribution of angular momentum is a long standing problem in our understanding of protoplanetary disk (PPD) evolution. The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is considered a likely mechanism. We present the results of a study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Donna Rodgers-Lee , Tom P. Ray , Turlough P. Downes

Various instabilities have been proposed as a promising mechanism to accumulate dust. Moreover, some of them are expected to lead to the multiple-ring structure formation and the planetesimal formation in protoplanetary disks. In a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Ryosuke T. Tominaga , Sanemichi Z. Takahashi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Spatially resolved observations of molecular line emission have the potential to yield unique constraints on the nature of turbulence within protoplanetary disks. Using a combination of local non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic simulations and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Jacob B. Simon , A. Meredith Hughes , Kevin M. Flaherty , Xue-Ning Bai , Philip J. Armitage

Efficient magnetic braking is a formidable obstacle to the formation of rotationally supported disks (RSDs) around protostars in magnetized dense cores. We have previously shown, through 2D (axisymmetric) non-ideal MHD simulations, that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-17 Bo Zhao , Paola Caselli , Zhi-Yun Li , Ruben Krasnopolsky

The gravitational instabilities are important to the evolution of the disks and the planet formation in the disks. We calculate the evolution of the disks which form from the collapse of the molecular cloud cores. By changing the properties…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-10 Ning Sui , Ping He , Min Li

Context. Disks around pre-main-sequence stars evolve over time by turbulent viscous spreading. The main contender to explain the strength of the turbulence is the Magneto-Rotational-Instability (MRI) model, whose efficiency depends on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 W. F. Thi , G. Lesur , P. Woitke , I. Kamp , Ch. Rab , A. Carmona

The early evolution of protostellar, star-forming discs, including their density structure, turbulence, magnetic dynamics, and accretion variability, remains poorly understood. We present high-resolution magnetohydrodynamic simulations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Trey Qingyun Yang , Christoph Federrath

We perform numerical simulations of solid particle motion in a shearing box model of a protoplanetary disc. The accretion flow is turbulent due to the action of the magnetorotational instability. Aerodynamic drag on the particles is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Augusto Carballido , James M. Stone , Neal J. Turner

We analyse simulations of turbulent, magnetised molecular cloud cores focussing on the formation of Class 0 stage protostellar discs and the physical conditions in their surroundings. We show that for a wide range of initial conditions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 D. Seifried , R. Banerjee , R. S. Klessen

We carry out a series of local, vertically stratified shearing box simulations of protoplanetary disks that include ambipolar diffusion and a net vertical magnetic field. The ambipolar diffusion profiles we employ correspond to 30AU and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jacob B. Simon , Xue-Ning Bai , Philip J. Armitage , James M. Stone , Kris Beckwith

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

Magnetic fields likely play a key role in the dynamics and evolution of protoplanetary discs. They have the potential to efficiently transport angular momentum by MHD turbulence or via the magnetocentrifugal acceleration of outflows from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Mark Wardle

Gravitational instabilities can drive small-scale turbulence and large-scale spiral arms in massive gaseous disks under conditions of slow radiative cooling. These motions affect the observed disk morphology, its mass accretion rate and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 W. Béthune , H. Latter , W. Kley