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Motivated by recent observational and numerical studies suggesting that collapsing protostellar cores may be replenished from the local environment, we explore the evolution of protostellar cores submerged in the external counter-rotating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Eduard I. Vorobyov , Zsolt Regaly , Manuel Guedel , D. N. C. Lin

The processes of planet formation and migration depend intimately on the interaction between planetesimals and the gaseous disks in which they form. The formation of gaps in the disk can severely limit the mass of the planet and its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Wayne F. Winters , Steven A. Balbus , John F. Hawley

It is widely known that giant planets have the capacity to open deep gaps in their natal gaseous protoplanetary discs. It is unclear, however, how gas accretion onto growing planets influences the shape and depth of their growing gaps. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 C. Bergez-Casalou , B. Bitsch , A. Pierens , A. Crida , S. N. Raymond

Transitional disks are protoplanetary disk around young stars that display inner holes in the dust distribution within a few AU, which is accompanied nevertheless by some gas accretion onto the central star. These cavities could possibly be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-03 Tobias W. A. Müller , Wilhelm Kley

The gap formation induced by a giant planet is important in the evolution of the planet and the protoplanetary disc. We examine the gap formation by a planet with a new formulation of one-dimensional viscous discs which takes into account…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Kazuhiro D. Kanagawa , Hidekazu Tanaka , Takayuki Muto , Takayuki Tanigawa , Taku Takeuchi

Giant planets embedded in circumstellar discs are expected to open gaps in these discs. We examine the vertical structure of the gap edges. We find that the planet excites spiral arms with significant (Mach number of a half) vertical motion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. G. Edgar , A. C. Quillen

Spatially resolved images of debris disks frequently reveal complex morphologies such as gaps, spirals, and warps. Most existing models for explaining such morphologies focus on the role of massive perturbers (i.e. planets, stellar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Antranik A. Sefilian , Roman R. Rafikov , Mark C. Wyatt

Recent high-angular resolution ALMA observations have revealed rich information about protoplanetary disks, including ubiquitous substructures and three-dimensional gas kinematics at different emission layers. One interpretation of these…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Xiao Hu , Zhi-Yun Li , Jaehan Bae , Zhaohuan Zhu

We investigate whether photoevaporation alone can open and sustain gaps in protoplanetary discs by coupling the evolving disc structure with the photoevaporative flow in two dimensional radiation hydrodynamical simulations. Our results show…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-15 Michael L. Weber , Barbara Ercolano , Giovanni Picogna

Numerical simulations are presented to study the stability of gaps opened by giant planets in 3D self-gravitating disks. In weakly self-gravitating disks, a few vortices develop at the gap edge and merge on orbital time-scales. The result…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-01 Min-Kai Lin

The gravitational influence of a planet on a nearby disk provides a powerful tool for detecting and studying extrasolar planetary systems. Here we demonstrate that gaps can be opened in dynamically cold debris disks at the mean-motion…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-30 Maryam Tabeshian , Paul Wiegert

We analyze the physical processes of gap formation in an inviscid protoplanetary disk with an embedded protoplanet using two-dimensional local shearing-sheet model. Spiral density wave launched by the planet shocks and the angular momentum…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Takayuki Muto , Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

During their formation, emerging protoplanets tidally interact with their natal disks. Proto-gas-giant planets, with Hills radius larger than the disk thickness, open gaps and quench gas flow in the vicinity of their orbits. It is usually…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Yi-Xian Chen , Xiaojia Zhang , Ya-Ping Li , Hui Li , Douglas N. C. Lin

Giant, wide-separation planets often lie in the gap between multiple, distinct rings of circumstellar debris: this is the case for the HR\,8799 and HD\,95086 systems, and even the solar system where the Asteroid and Kuiper belts enclose the…

A large planet orbiting a star in a protoplanetary disk opens a density gap along its orbit due to the strong disk-planet interaction and migrates with the gap in the disk. It is expected that in the ideal case, a gap-opening planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Kazuhiro D. Kanagawa , Hidekazu Tanaka , Ewa Szuszkiewicz

Young giant planets, which are embedded in a circumstellar disk, will significantly perturb the disk density distribution. This effect can potentially be used as an indirect tracer for planets. We investigate the feasibility of observing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-26 Jan Philipp Ruge , Sebastian Wolf , Ana L. Uribe , Hubert H. Klahr

We investigate the formation of dust gaps in circumstellar disks driven by the presence of multiple low-mass planets, focusing on the distinct physical mechanisms that operate across different gas-dust coupling regimes. We performed 2D…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 V. Roatti , G. Picogna , F. Marzari

We study the dynamics of gas and dust in a protoplanetary disk in the presence of embedded planets. We investigate the conditions for dust-gap formation in terms of particle size and planetary mass. We also monitor the amount of dust that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. -J. Paardekooper , G. Mellema

Vertical gas and dust flows in protoplanetary discs waft material above the midplane region in the presence of a protoplanet. This motion may alter the delivery of dust to the planet and its circumplanetary disc, as well as through a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 Hannah J. Petrovic , Richard A. Booth , Cathie J. Clarke

Using 2D simulations, we investigate how a non-accreting satellite on a fixed retrograde circular orbit affects the structure of the accretion disc in which it is embedded. We vary the satellite-to-primary mass ratio $q$, the disc viscosity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-17 F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo , A. Santillan