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Vortex formation through the Rossby wave instability (RWI) in protoplanetary discs has been invoked to play a role in planet formation theory, and suggested to explain the observation of large dust asymmetries in several transitional discs.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Min-Kai Lin

We investigate dust substructure formation induced by two super-Earths migrating in a low-viscosity disk with single-size dust grains selected from the submillimeter to centimeter range of sizes. The orbital evolution of planets takes place…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Zijia Cui , Ewa Szuszkiewicz

The aim of this paper is to study the vertical profile of small dust particles in protoplanetary discs in which angular momentum transport is due to MHD turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability. We consider particle sizes that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sebastien Fromang , Richard P. Nelson

Regular satellites in the solar system are thought to form within circumplanetary discs. We consider a model of a layered circumplanetary disc that consists of a nonturbulent midplane layer and and strongly turbulent disc surface layers.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Stephen H. Lubow , Rebecca G. Martin

It is believed that large-scale horseshoe-like brightness asymmetries found in dozens of transitional protoplanetary discs are caused by anticyclonic vortices. These vortices can play a key role in planet formation, as mm-sized dust -- the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-11 D. Tarczay-Nehéz , Zs. Regály , E. Vorobyov

Stellar flybys are a common dynamical process in young stellar clusters and can significantly reshape protoplanetary discs. However, their impact on dust dynamics remains poorly understood, particularly in the weakly coupled regime…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Wei-Shan Su , Jeremy L. Smallwood , Min-Kai Lin , Chao-Chin Yang , Nicolás Cuello

The crucial initial step in planet formation is the agglomeration of micron-sized dust into macroscopic aggregates. This phase is likely to happen very early during the protostellar disc formation, which is characterised by active gas…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Vitaly Akimkin , Eduard Vorobyov , Yaroslav Pavlyuchenkov , Olga Stoyanovskaya

High spatial resolution observations of protoplanetary disks (PPDs) by ALMA have revealed many details that are providing interesting constraints on the disk physics as well as dust dynamics, both of which are essential for understanding…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Pinghui Huang , Hui Li , Andrea Isella , Ryan Miranda , Shengtai Li , Jianghui Ji

Transitional disks are protoplanetary disks with large and deep central holes in the gas, possibly carved by young planets. Dong, R., & Dawson, R. 2016, ApJ, 825, 7 simulated systems with multiple giant planets that were capable of carving…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Rory Bowens , Andrew Shannon , Rebekah Dawson , Jiayin Dong

Transition discs are protoplanetary discs that show evidence for large holes or wide gaps (with widths comparable to their radii) in their dust component. These discs could be giving us clues about the disc destruction mechanism or hints…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 James E. Owen

Aims and Methods. Accretion bursts triggered by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in the innermost disk regions were studied for protoplanetary gas-dust disks formed from prestellar cores of various mass $M_{\rm core}$ and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Eduard Vorobyov , Sergey Khaibrakhmanov , Shantanu Basu , Marc Audard

The expectation that aerodynamic drag will force the solids in a gas-rich protoplanetary disk to spiral in toward the host star on short timescales is one of the fundamental problems in planet formation theory. The nominal efficiency of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Tilman Birnstiel , Sean M. Andrews

Context: The global size and spatial distribution of dust is an important ingredient in the structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks and in the formation of larger bodies, such as planetesimals. Aims: We aim to derive simple…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-12 T. Birnstiel , H. Klahr , B. Ercolano

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

Recent surveys of protoplanetary disks show that substructure in dust thermal continuum emission maps is common in protoplanetary disks. These substructures, most prominently rings and gaps, shape and change the chemical and physical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-17 Felipe Alarcon , Richard Teague , Ke Zhang , Edwin Bergin , Marcelo Barraza-Alfaro

Observations of protoplanetary disks have revealed the presence of both crescent-shaped and ring-like structures in dust continuum emission. These crescents are thought to arise from dust-trapping vortices generated by the Rossby Wave…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-18 Xiaoyi Ma , Pinghui Huang , Cong Yu , Ruobing Dong

Observations indicate that large, dust-laden protoplanetary discs are common. Some features, like gaps, rings and spirals, suggest they may host young planets, which can excite the orbits of nearby leftover planetesimals. Energetic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Gennaro D'Angelo , Francesco Marzari

The role of radiation pressure in dust migration and the opening of inner cavities in transitional disks is revisited in this paper. Dust dynamics including radiation pressure is often studied in axisymmetric models, but in this work, we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Jiaqing Bi , Jeffrey Fung

We identify a new dust instability that occurs in warped discs. The instability is caused by the oscillatory gas motions induced by the warp in the bending wave regime. We first demonstrate the instability using a local 1D (vertical) toy…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-13 Hossam Aly , Rebecca Nealon , Jean-François Gonzalez

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