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Two dimensional hydrodynamical disks are nonlinearly unstable to the formation of vortices. Once formed, these vortices essentially survive forever. What happens in three dimensions? We show with pseudospectral simulations that in 3D a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-20 Yoram Lithwick

We study the migration of solid bodies in turbulent protoplanetary accretion discs by means of global MHD simulations. The bodies range in size from 5 centimetres up to 1 metre, and so include objects whose migration is expected to be the…

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

Class II protoplanetary discs feature numerous non-axisymmetric substructures like spirals and the underlying mechanisms for their formation are still highly debated. Coincidentally, early stage, massive discs are subject to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Marc Van den Bossche , Oliver Gressel

We investigate the gravitational interaction between low- to intermediate-mass planets ($M_p \in[0.06-210]\,M_{\oplus}$) and two previously formed pressure bumps in a gas-dust protoplanetary disc. We explore how the disc structure changes…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 R. O. Chametla , O. Chrenko

Gravitational instability is one of considerable mechanisms to explain the formation of giant planets. We study the gravitational stability for the protoplanetary disks around a protostar. The temperature and Toomre's Q-value are calculated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-18 Shigeo S. Kimura , Toru Tsuribe

In this paper we consider the evolution of small planetesimals in marginally stable, self-gravitating protoplanetary discs. The drag force between the disc gas and the embedded planetesimals generally causes the planetesimals to drift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. K. M. Rice , G. Lodato , J. E. Pringle , P. J. Armitage , I. A. Bonnell

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

We study the evolution of planet-induced vortices in radially stratified disks, with initial conditions allowing for radial buoyancy. For this purpose we run global two dimensional hydrodynamical simulations, using the PLUTO code.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 A. Lobo Gomes , H. Klahr , A. L. Uribe , P. Pinilla , C. Surville

We carried out two-dimensional high-resolution simulations to study the effect of dust feedback on the evolution of vortices induced by massive planets in protoplanetary disks. Various initial dust to gas disk surface density ratios…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-30 Wen Fu , Hui Li , Stephen Lubow , Shengtai Li , Edison Liang

Gravitational coupling between planets and protoplanetary discs is responsible for many important phenomena such as planet migration and gap formation. The key quantitative characteristics of this coupling is the excitation torque density…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Nicolas P. Cimerman , Roman R. Rafikov , Ryan Miranda

We investigate gap formation in gaseous protostellar disks by a planet in a circular orbit in the limit of low disk viscosity. This regime may be appropriate to an aging disk after the epoch of planet formation. We find that the distance of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Peggy Varniere , A. C. Quillen , Adam Frank

In this paper the migration of a 10 Earth-mass planetary core is investigated at the outer boundary of the dead zone of a protoplanetary disc by means of 2D hydrodynamic simulations done with the graphics processor unit version of the FARGO…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Zs. Regaly , Zs. Sandor , P. Csomos , S. Ataiee

Most low-mass protostellar disks evolve in clustered environments where they are affected by external radiation fields, while others evolve in more isolated star-forming regions. Assuming that the magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Soko Matsumura , Ralph E. Pudritz

Enhancing the local dust-to-gas ratio in protoplanetary discs is a necessary first step to planetesimal formation. In laminar discs, dust settling is an efficient mechanism to raise the dust-to-gas ratio at the disc midplane. However,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Min-Kai Lin

Discs of gas and dust are ubiquitous around protostars. Hypothetical disc viscosity is thought to cause the gas and dust to accrete onto the star. Turbulence within the disc might be the source of this disc viscosity. However, observed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 Kurt Liffman

We address the cosmological evolution of violent gravitational instability in high-redshift, massive, star-forming galactic discs. To this aim, we integrate in time the equations of mass and energy conservation under self-regulated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Marcello Cacciato , Avishai Dekel , Shy Genel

Flow nonnormality induced linear transient phenomena in thin self-gravitating astrophysical discs are studied in the shearing sheet approximation. The considered system includes two modes of perturbations: vortex and (spiral density) wave.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. R. Mamatsashvili , G. D. Chagelishvili

Numerous protoplanetary disks exhibit shadows in scattered light observations. These shadows are typically cast by misaligned inner disks and are associated with observable structures in the outer disk such as bright arcs and spirals.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 Alexandros Ziampras , Cornelis P. Dullemond , Tilman Birnstiel , Myriam Benisty , Richard P. Nelson

Young protostellar discs are likely to be both self-gravitating, and to support grain growth to sizes where the particles decoupled from the gas. This combination could lead to short-wavelength fragmentation of the solid component in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Cristiano Longarini , Philip J. Armitage , Giuseppe Lodato , Daniel J. Price , Simone Ceppi

Vortices are one of the most promising mechanisms to locally concentrate millimeter dust grains and allow the formation of planetesimals through gravitational collapse. The outer disk around the binary system HD 142527 is known for its…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Y. Boehler , F. Ménard , C. M. T. Robert , A. Isella , C. Pinte , J. -F. Gonzalez , G. van der Plas , E. Weaver , R. Teague , H. Garg , H. Méheut