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The dynamical evolution of protoplanetary disks is of key interest for building a comprehensive theory of planet formation and to explain the observational properties of these objects. Using the magnetohydrodynamics code Athena++, with an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Fulvia Pucci , Kengo Tomida , James Stone , Shinsuke Takasao , Hantao Ji , Shoichi Okamura

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

Protoplanets can interact with their natal disks and generate gas and dust substructures such as gaps and rings. However, how these planet-induced substructures affect the disk temperature, and how that in turn influences the substructures,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-04 Kan Chen , Paola Pinilla , Mihkel Kama

We investigate dust growth due to settling in a 1D vertical column of a protoplanetary disk. It is known from the observed 10 micron feature in disk SEDs, that small micron-sized grains are present at the disk atmosphere throughout the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Zsom , C. W. Ormel , C. P. Dullemond , Th. Henning

The tidal perturbation of embedded protoplanets on their natal disks has been widely attributed to be the cause of gap-ring structures in sub-mm images of protoplanetary disks around T Tauri stars. Numerical simulations of this process have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Yi-Xian Chen , Zhuoxiao Wang , Ya-Ping Li , Clément Baruteau , Douglas N. C. Lin

Recent studies have shown that the large-scale gas dynamics of protoplanetary disks (PPDs) are controlled by non-ideal magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD), but how this influences dust dynamics is not fully understood. To this end, we investigate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-15 Yinhao Wu , Min-Kai Lin , Can Cui , Leonardo Krapp , Yueh-Ning Lee , Andrew N. Youdin

This tutorial is an introduction to observational studies of dust transport and evolution in protoplanetary disks. Spatially resolved observations of disks at multiple wavelengths can allow to infer the distribution of various dust grains…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Marion Villenave

The dust in planet-forming disks evolve rapidly through growth and radial drift, and external photoevaporation also contributes to this evolution in massive star-forming regions. We test whether the presence of substructures can explain the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-24 Matías Gárate , Paola Pinilla , Thomas J. Haworth , Stefano Facchini

Transitional disks, protoplanetary disks with deep and wide central gaps, may be the result of planetary sculpting. By comparing numerical planet-opening-gap models with observed gaps, we find systems of 3-6 giant planets are needed in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Ruobing Dong , Rebekah Dawson

In the context of planet formation, anticyclonic vortices have recently received lots of attention for the role they can play in planetesimals formation. Radial migration of intermediate size solids toward the central star may prevent their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 H. Meheut , R. Keppens , F. Casse , W. Benz

Dust plays a fundamental role during protostellar collapse, disk and planet formation. Recent observations suggest that efficient dust growth may begin early, in the protostellar envelopes, potentially even before the formation of the disk.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Maxime Lombart , Ugo Lebreuilly , Anaëlle Maury

The composition of forming planets is strongly affected by the protoplanetary disc's thermal structure. This thermal structure is predominantly set by dust radiative transfer and viscous (accretional) heating and can be impacted by gaps -…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-18 Madelyn Broome , Oliver Shorttle , Mihkel Kama , Richard A. Booth

Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) have revealed many dust rings in protoplanetary disks, often interpreted as dust traps at gas pressure bumps. Previous studies…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Linhan Yang , Ya-Ping Li , Ruobing Dong , Kiyoaki Doi , Hauyu Baobab Liu , Pinghui Huang

Dust substructures observed in protoplanetary disks are commonly attributed to embedded planets; however, intrinsic gas-dust interactions can also generate complex morphologies. We performed two-dimensional, axisymmetric simulations of gas…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Jiaqing Bi , Mario Flock , Dominik Ostertag , Neele Lüttkemöller , Sebastian Wolf

We analyze the ionization state of the magnetohydrodynamically turbulent protoplanetary disks and propose a new mechanism of sustaining ionization. First, we show that in the quasi-steady state of turbulence driven by magnetorotational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Takayoshi Sano

Protoplanetary disks with large inner dust cavities are thought to host massive planetary or substellar companions. These disks show asymmetries and rings in the millimeter continuum, caused by dust trapping in pressure bumps, and…

In the borders of the dead zones of protoplanetary disks, the inflow of gas produces a local density maximum that triggers the Rossby wave instability. The vortices that form are efficient in trapping solids. We aim to assess the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. Lyra , A. Johansen , H. Klahr , N. Piskunov

The final masses of Jovian planets are attained when the tidal torques that they exert on their surrounding protostellar disks are sufficient to open gaps in the face of disk viscosity, thereby shutting off any further accretion. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Soko Matsumura , Ralph E. Pudritz

Super-Earths can form at large orbital radii and migrate inward due to tidal interactions with the circumstellar disk. In this scenario, convergent migration may occur and lead to the formation of resonant pairs of planets. We explore the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Francesco Marzari , Gennaro D'Angelo

We investigate the behaviour of dust in protoplanetary disks under the action of gas drag using our 3D, two-fluid (gas+dust) SPH code. We present the evolution of the dust spatial distribution in global simulations of planetless disks as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jean-François Gonzalez , Laure Fouchet , Sarah T. Maddison , Guillaume Laibe
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