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We investigate the formation of dust traffic jams in polar-aligning circumbinary discs. We use 3D smoothed particle hydrodynamical simulations of both gas and dust to model an initially highly misaligned circumbinary disc around an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Jeremy L. Smallwood , Min-Kai Lin , Hossam Aly , Rebecca Nealon , Cristiano Longarini

Nearly-axisymmetric gaps and rings are commonly observed in protoplanetary discs. The leading theory regarding the origin of these patterns is that they are due to dust trapping at the edges of gas gaps induced by the gravitational torques…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 Linn E. J. Eriksson , Anders Johansen , Beibei Liu

In order to circumvent the loss of solid material through radial drift towards the central star, the trapping of dust inside persistent vortices in protoplanetary discs has often been suggested as a process that can eventually lead to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. D. Railton , J. C. B. Papaloizou

Recent analyses of mm-wavelength protoplanetary disk observations have revealed several emission excesses on the previously identified dust rings, referred to as dust shoulders. The prevalence of dust shoulders suggests that they trace a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-01 Jiaqing Bi , Min-Kai Lin

Resonant Drag Instabilities (RDIs) in protoplanetary discs are driven by the aerodynamic back-reaction of dust on gas and occur when the relative dust-gas motion resonate with a wave mode intrinsic to the gas fluid. Axisymmetric models…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-17 Raúl O. Chametla , Yasuhiro Hasegawa , Gennaro D'Angelo

We have studied dust evolution in a quiescent or turbulent protoplanetary disk by numerically solving coagulation equation for settling dust particles, using the minimum mass solar nebular model. As a result, if we assume an ideally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hideko Nomura , Yoshitsugu Nakagawa

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 formation of planets occurs within protoplanetary disks surrounding young stars, resulting in perturbation of the gas and dust surface densities. Here, we report the first evidence of spatially resolved gas surface density…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Cécile Favre , Davide Fedele , Luke Maud , Richard Booth , Marco Tazzari , Anna Miotello , Leonardo Testi , Dmitry Semenov , Simon Bruderer

The streaming instability is a popular candidate for planetesimal formation by concentrating dust particles to trigger gravitational collapse. However, its robustness against physical conditions expected in protoplanetary disks is unclear.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 Kan Chen , Min-Kai Lin

The migration of planetary cores embedded in a protoplanetary disk is an important mechanism within planet-formation theory, relevant for the architecture of planetary systems. Consequently, planet migration is actively discussed, yet often…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Philipp Weber , Sebastián Pérez , Pablo Benítez-Llambay , Oliver Gressel , Simon Casassus , Leonardo Krapp

The total amount of dust (or "metallicity") and the dust distribution in protoplanetary disks are crucial for planet formation. Dust grains radially drift due to gas--dust friction, and the gas is affected by the feedback from dust grains.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 Kazuhiro D. Kanagawa , Takahiro Ueda , Takayuki Muto , Satoshi Okuzumi

The collapse of interstellar gaseous clouds towards a protostar leads to the formation of accretion disks around the central star. Such disks can be dynamically stable if they settle in an axisymmetric state. In this letter, we investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-07 Florian Ragossnig , Lukas Gehrig , Ernst A. Dorfi , Daniel Steiner , Alexander Stökl

We present simulations of the non-linear evolution of streaming instabilities in protoplanetary disks. The two components of the disk, gas treated with grid hydrodynamics and solids treated as superparticles, are mutually coupled by drag…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Anders Johansen , Andrew Youdin

Protoplanetary disks are believed to evolve on Myr timescales in a diffusive (viscous) manner as a result of angular momentum transport driven by internal stresses. Here we use a sample of 26 protoplanetary disks resolved by ALMA with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Roman R. Rafikov

Recent surveys have revealed that protoplanetary discs typically have dust masses that appear to be insufficient to account for the high occurrence rate of exoplanet systems. We demonstrate that this observed dust depletion is consistent…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Johan Appelgren , Michiel Lambrechts , Anders Johansen

The arising of turbulence in gas-dynamic (non-magnetic) accretion disks is a major issue of modern astrophysics. Such accretion disks should be stable against the turbulence generation, in contradiction to observations. Searching for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-01 E. P. Kurbatov , D. V. Bisikalo , P. V. Kaygorodov

Protoplanetary discs exhibit a diversity of gaps and rings of dust material, believed to be a manifestation of pressure maxima commonly associated with an ongoing planet formation and several other physical processes. Hydrodynamic disc…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-18 Geoffrey Andama , Nelson Ndugu , Simon . K. Anguma , Edward Jurua

We present a series of simulations of turbulent stratified protostellar discs with the goal of characterizing the settling of dust throughout a minimum-mass solar nebula. We compare the evolution of both compact spherical grains, as well as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 D. A. Tilley , D. S. Balsara , S. D. Brittain , T. Rettig

During the evolution of protoplanetary disks, dust grains start to grow, form larger particles, settle to the midplane, and rearrange the disk, mainly by the inward radial drift. Because of this, dust pebbles with an irregular shape usually…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Moritz Lietzow-Sinjen , Stefan Reissl , Mario Flock , Sebastian Wolf

High dust density in the midplane of protoplanetary disks is favorable for efficient grain growth and can allow fast formation of planetesimals and planets, before disks dissipate. Vertical settling and dust trapping in pressure maxima are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 M. Villenave , K. R. Stapelfeldt , G. Duchene , F. Menard , M. Lambrechts , A. Sierra , C. Flores , W. R. F. Dent , S. Wolff , A. Ribas , M. Benisty , N. Cuello , C. Pinte