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The streaming instability is considered one of the leading candidates for the formation of planetesimals, due to its ability to overcome the bouncing and fragmentation barriers. The formation of dense dust clumps through this process,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Arnaud Pierens , Thomas Collin-Dufresne , Min-Kai Lin , Emmanuel DiFolco

Recent study suggests that the streaming instability, one of the leading mechanisms for driving the formation of planetesimals, may not be as efficient as previously thought. Under some disc conditions, the growth timescale of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Zhaohuan Zhu , Chao-Chin Yang

Recently, Squire & Hopkins (2017) showed any coupled dust-gas mixture is subject to a class of linear 'resonant drag instabilities' (RDI). These can drive large dust-to-gas ratio fluctuations even at arbitrarily small dust-to-gas mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-13 Philip F. Hopkins , Jonathan Squire

We study the stability of gaps opened by a giant planet in a self-gravitating protoplanetary disc. We find a linear instability associated with both the self-gravity of the disc and local vortensity maxima which coincide with gap edges. For…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Min-Kai Lin , John Papaloizou

In an earlier letter, we reported that dust settling in protoplanetary discs may lead to a dynamical dust-gas instability that produces global toroidal vortices. In this letter, we investigate the evolution of a dusty protoplanetary disc…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Pablo Loren-Aguilar , Matthew R. Bate

In this work we use the radiation hydrodynamic code TRAMP to perform a two-dimensional axially symmetric model of the layered disc. Using this model we follow the accumulation of mass in the dead zone due to the radially varying accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Wunsch , H. Klahr , M. Rozyczka

In dilute astrophysical plasmas, the collisional mean free path of a particle can exceed its Larmor radius. Under these conditions, the thermal conductivity and viscosity of the plasma can be dramatically altered. This alteration allows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tanim Islam , Steven Balbus

Interpenetrating streams of solids and gas in a Keplerian disk produce a local, linear instability. The two components mutually interact via aerodynamic drag, which generates radial drift and triggers unstable modes. The secular instability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrew N. Youdin , Jeremy Goodman

The streaming instability is thought to play a central role in the early stages of planet formation by enabling the efficient bypass of a number of barriers hindering the formation of planetesimals. We present the first study exploring the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Leonardo Krapp , Pablo Benítez-Llambay , Oliver Gressel , Martin E. Pessah

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

We investigate the stability to nonaxisymmetric perturbations of an accretion disc in which a poloidal magnetic field provides part of the radial support against gravity. Interchange instability due to radial gradients in the magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 H. C. Spruit , R. Stehle , J. C. B. Papaloizou

We explore dynamical behaviour of dust particles that populate the surface of inner optically thick protoplanetary discs. This is a disc region with the hottest dust and of a great importance for planet formation and dust evolution, but we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-23 Dejan Vinković , Miljenko Čemeljić

We derive the single-fluid evolution equations describing a mixture made of a gas phase and an arbitrary number of dust phases, generalising the approach developed in Laibe & Price (2014a). A generalisation for continuous dust distributions…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Guillaume Laibe , Daniel J. Price

[Abridged] Aims. We provide an important step toward a better understanding of the magnetorotational instability (MRI)-dust coevolution in protoplanetary disks by presenting a proof of concept that dust evolution ultimately plays a crucial…

Discs that contain dead zones are subject to the Gravo-Magneto (GM) instability that arises when the turbulence shifts from gravitational to magnetic. We have previously described this instability through a local analysis at some radius in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

The arising of turbulence in gas-dynamic (non-magnetic) accretion disks is a major issue of modern astrophysics. Such accretion disks should be stable against the turbulence generation, in contradiction to observations. Searching for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-01 E. P. Kurbatov , D. V. Bisikalo , P. V. Kaygorodov

Molecular gas disks are generally Toomre stable ($Q_T>$1) and yet clearly gravitationally unstable to structure formation as evidenced by the existence of molecular clouds and ongoing star formation. This paper adopts a 3D perspective to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-12 Sharon E. Meidt

Measuring the amount of gas and dust in protoplanetary disks is a key challenge in planet formation studies. Here we provide a new set of dust depletion factors and relative mass surface densities of gas and dust for the innermost regions…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 Adam S. Jermyn , Mihkel Kama

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…

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