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Planetesimal belts are invoked to explain the prolonged existence of debris disks. Important parameters to model their collisional evolution and to compute the dust production rate are the intrinsic probability of collision $P_i$ and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 F. Marzari , A. Dell'Oro

We numerically investigate the dynamics of how a close stellar fly-by encounter of a symmetrical circumstellar planetesimal disc can give rise to the many kinds of asymmetries and substructures attributed to the edge-on dusty disc of Beta…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. D. Larwood , P. G. Kalas

The vertical thickness of debris discs is often used as a measure of these systems' dynamical excitation and as clues to the presence of hidden massive perturbers such as planetary embryos. However, this argument could be flawed because the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Philippe Thebault

In this work, we used N-body simulations and a radiative transfer package to model the evolution of eccentric debris discs produced by giant impacts between planetary embryos. This included how the morphology and infrared emission of these…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-10 Thomas Lewis , Lewis Watt , Zoë M Leinhardt

Axisymmetric dust rings containing tens to hundreds of Earth masses of solids have been observed in protoplanetary discs with (sub-)millimetre imaging. Here, we investigate the growth of a planetary embryo in a massive (150M$_\oplus$)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Daniel P. Cummins , James E. Owen , Richard A. Booth

Context. Rotational instability of rubble-pile asteroids can trigger mass shedding, forming transient debris clouds that may provide the initial conditions for secondary formation in binary systems. Aims. We investigate the dynamical and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Yutian Wu , Xiaojing Zhang , Chenyang Huang , Yang Yu

In order to detect and characterise cold extended circumstellar dust originating from collisions of planetesimal bodies in disks, belts, or rings at Kuiper-Belt distances (30-50 AU or beyond) sensitive submillimetre observations are…

The extrasolar planets discovered to date possess unexpected orbital elements. Most orbit their host stars with larger eccentricities and smaller semi-major axes than similarly sized planets in our own solar system do. It is generally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Althea V. Moorhead , Fred C. Adams

We present 3-D models of dust distribution around beta Pictoris that produce the best fits to the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys' (HST/ACS) images obtained by Golimowski and co-workers. We allow for the presence of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Mirza Ahmic , Bryce Croll , Pawel Artymowicz

How substructures and disk properties affect dust evolution and the delivery of solids and volatiles into planet-forming regions remains an open question. We present results from tailored dust evolution modeling of the AGE-PRO ALMA large…

Transitional discs are a special type of protoplanetary discs where planet formation is thought to be taking place. These objects feature characteristic inner cavities and/or gaps of a few tens of AUs in the sub-millimitre images of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. de Juan Ovelar , M. Min , C. Dominik , C. Thalmann , P. Pinilla , M. Benisty , T. Birnstiel

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

Most extrasolar planets are observed to have eccentricities much larger than those in the solar system. Some of these planets have sibling planets, with comparable masses, orbiting around the same host stars. In these multiple planetary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Nagasawa , D. N. C. Lin , S. Ida

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

This manuscript investigates the impact of key dust evolution parameters on dust retention and trapping in protoplanetary discs. Using models with and without pressure bumps, combined with radiative transfer simulations, images of the dust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Paola Pinilla

The excess emission seen in spectral energy distributions (SEDs) is commonly used to infer the properties of the emitting circumstellar dust in protoplanetary and debris discs. Most notably, dust size distributions and details of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 Torsten Löhne

While the population of main sequence debris discs is well constrained, little is known about debris discs around evolved stars. This paper provides a theoretical framework considering the effects of stellar evolution on debris discs,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Bonsor , M. C. Wyatt

In this first paper in a series we present a study of the global dust emission distribution in nearby edge-on spiral galaxies. Our sample consists of 16 angularly large and 13 less spatially resolved galaxies selected from the DustPedia…

In circumstellar disks, the size of dust particles varies from submicron to several centimeters, while planetesimals have sizes of hundreds of kilometers. Therefore, various regimes for the aerodynamic drag between solid bodies and gas can…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-19 Olga P. Stoyanovskaya , Fedor A. Okladnikov , Eduard I. Vorobyov , Yaroslav N. Pavlyuchenkov , Vitaliy V. Akimkin

A clear understanding of the chemical processing of matter, as it is transferred from a molecular cloud to a planetary system, depends heavily on knowledge of the physical conditions endured by gas and dust as these accrete onto a disk and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David W. Koerner