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Recently Squire & Hopkins showed that charged dust grains moving through magnetized gas under the influence of any external force (e.g. radiation pressure, gravity) are subject to a spectrum of instabilities. Qualitatively distinct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-18 Philip F. Hopkins , Jonathan Squire , Darryl Seligman

Instabilities of ion-acoustic waves in a dusty plasma with electron-drift, collisional, and dust charge fluctuations effects, have been investigated. The regimes are clearly marked out where the theory is applicable. The critical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. Singh , M. P. Bora

The streaming instability is a fundamental process that can drive dust-gas dynamics and ultimately planetesimal formation in protoplanetary discs. As a linear instability, it has been shown that its growth with a distribution of dust sizes…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Chao-Chin Yang , Zhaohuan Zhu

In this paper we introduce an algebraic form of the dispersion relation for a non ideal inhomogeneous dusty plasma in order to improve drastically the calculation of the drift instability growth rate. This method makes use of the multipole…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlo Cereceda , Julio Puerta , Pablo Martin , Enrique Castro

We study drag-driven instability in a protoplanetary disc consisting of a layer of single-sized dust particles which are coupled to the magnetized gas aerodynamically and the particle-to-gas feedback is included. We find a dispersion…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 Mohsen Shadmehri , Razieh Oudi , Gohar Rastegarzade

There is a quickly increasing wealth of experimental data on so-called dusty plasmas i. e. ionized gases or usual plasmas that contain micron sized charged particles. Interest in these structures is driven both by their importance in many…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Barbara Atamaniuk , Krzysztof Zuchowski

Small quasi-two-dimensional (2D) dust clusters consisting of three to eleven particles are formed in an argon plasma under varying rf power. Their normal modes are investigated through their mode spectra obtained from tracking thermal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ke Qiao , Jie Kong , Jorge Carmona , Lorin S. Matthews , Truell W. Hyde

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

(Abridged) In this paper we have used the RIEMANN code for computational astrophysics to study the interaction of a realistic distribution of dust grains with gas in a vertically stratified protostellar accretion disc. The disc was modeled…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dinshaw S. Balsara , David A. Tilley , Terrence Rettig , Sean A. Brittain

The streaming instability, a promising mechanism to drive planetesimal formation in dusty protoplanetary discs, relies on aerodynamic drag naturally induced by the background radial pressure gradient. This gradient should vary in disks, but…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-09 Stanley A. Baronett , Chao-Chin Yang , Zhaohuan Zhu

We present a new instability driven by a combination of coagulation and radial drift of dust particles. We refer to this instability as ``coagulation instability" and regard it as a promising mechanism to concentrate dust particles and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Ryosuke T. Tominaga , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Hiroshi Kobayashi

We extend the linear analysis of the drag instability in a 1D perpendicular isothermal C-shock by Gu & Chen to 2D perpendicular and oblique C-shocks in the typical environment of star-forming clouds. Simplified dispersion relations are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-21 Pin-Gao Gu

The modulational instability of dust-ion-acoustic (DIA) mode and associated rogue waves in a three component dusty plasma system (containing inertial warm ion and negatively charged dust fluids along with inertialess $q$-distributed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 N. K. Tamanna , J. Akter , N. A. Chowdhury , A. A. Mamun

Context. The Dust Settling Instabilty (DSI) is a member of the Resonant Drag Instabilities (RDI) family, and is thus related to the Streaming Instability (SI). Linear calculations found that the unstratified monodisperse DSI has growth…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Hossam Aly , Sijme-Jan Paardekooper

We examine the nonlinear development of unstable magnetosonic waves driven by a background radiative flux -- the Radiation-Driven Magneto-Acoustic Instability (RMI, a.k.a. the "photon bubble" instability). The RMI may serve as a persistent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Rodrigo Fernández , Aristotle Socrates

The dust-acoustic waves and their stability in the permeating dusty plasma with the Maxwellian velocity distribution are investigated. We derive the dust-acoustic wave frequency and instability growth rate in two limiting physical cases…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Jingyu Gong , Zhipeng Liu , Jiulin Du

Forming macroscopic solid bodies in circumstellar discs requires local dust concentration levels significantly higher than the mean. Interactions of the dust particles with the gas must serve to augment local particle densities, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Holly L. Capelo , Jan Molacek , Michiel Lambrechts , John Lawson , Anders Johansen , Jurgen Blum , Eberhard Bodenschatz , Haitao Xu

We introduce a polydisperse version of the streaming instability, where the dust component is treated as a continuum of sizes. We show that its behaviour is remarkably different from the monodisperse streaming instability. We focus on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Sijme-Jan Paardekooper , Colin P. McNally , Francesco Lovascio

Recent numerical simulations have revealed that dust clumping and planetesimal formation likely proceed in ring-like disc substructures, where dust gets trapped in weakly turbulent pressure maxima. The streaming instability has difficulty…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-28 Hanpu Liu , Xue-Ning Bai

Various instabilities have been proposed as a promising mechanism to accumulate dust. Moreover, some of them are expected to lead to the multiple-ring structure formation and the planetesimal formation in protoplanetary disks. In a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Ryosuke T. Tominaga , Sanemichi Z. Takahashi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka