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Protoplanetary discs may become dynamically unstable due to structure induced by an embedded giant planet. In this thesis, I discuss the stability of such systems and explore the consequence of instability on planetary migration. I begin…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-23 Min-Kai Lin

Numerical simulations of global three-dimensional (3D), self-gravitating discs with a gap opened by an embedded planet are presented. The simulations are customised to examine planetary gap stability. Previous results, obtained by Lin &…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Min-Kai Lin

Planets are born in protostellar disks, which are now observed with enough resolution to address questions about internal gas flows. Candidates for driving the flows include magnetic forces, but ionization state estimates suggest much of…

We carry out three dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations to study the impact of planet-disc interactions on a gravitationally unstable protoplanetary disc. We find that the impact of a planet on the disc's evolution can be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-01 Sahl Rowther , Rebecca Nealon , Farzana Meru

We perform non-linear simulation of secular gravitational instability (GI) in protoplanetary disks that has been proposed as a mechanism of the planetesimal formation and the multiple ring formation. Since the timescale of the growth of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Ryosuke T. Tominaga , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Sanemichi Z. Takahashi

Many of the most intriguing features, including spirals and cavities, in the current disc observations are found in binary systems like GG Tau, HD 142527 or HD 100453. Such features are evidence of the dynamic interaction between binary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-11 Anna B. T. Penzlin , Richard A. Booth , Richard P. Nelson , Christoph M. Schäfer , Wilhelm Kley

Dust substructures observed in protoplanetary disks are commonly attributed to embedded planets; however, intrinsic gas-dust interactions can also generate complex morphologies. We performed two-dimensional, axisymmetric simulations of gas…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Jiaqing Bi , Mario Flock , Dominik Ostertag , Neele Lüttkemöller , Sebastian Wolf

We use a multi-dimensional hydrodynamics code to study the gravitational interaction between an embedded planet and a protoplanetary disk with emphasis on the generation of vortensity (potential vorticity) through a Baroclinic Instability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shangli Ou , Jianghui Ji , Lin Liu , Xiaomeng Peng

Gravitational instability (GI) features in several aspects of protostellar disk evolution, most notably in angular momentum transport, fragmentation, and the outbursts exemplified by FU Ori and EX Lupi systems. The outer regions of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-24 A. Riols , H. Latter

In the context of planet formation, anticyclonic vortices have recently received lots of attention for the role they can play in planetesimals formation. Radial migration of intermediate size solids toward the central star may prevent their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 H. Meheut , R. Keppens , F. Casse , W. Benz

Gas rich dusty circumstellar discs observed around young stellar objects are believed to be the birthplace of planets and planetary systems. Recent observations revealed that large-scale horseshoe-like brightness asymmetries are present in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 D. Tarczay-Nehéz , K. Rozgonyi , Zs. Regály

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

Protoplanetary discs (PPDs) can host a number of instabilities that may partake directly or indirectly in the process of planetesimal formation. These include the Vertical Shear Instability (VSI), Convective Overstability (COS), Streaming…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Marius Lehmann , Min-Kai Lin

Context. Despite the recent discovery of spiral-shaped features in protoplanetary discs in the near-infrared and millimetric wavelengths, there is still an active discussion to understand how they formed. In fact, the spiral waves observed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Nicolás Cuello , Matías Montesinos , Sebastian M. Stammler , Fabien Louvet , Jorge Cuadra

Spiral perturbations in a gravitationally unstable accretion disk regulate disk evolution through angular-momentum transport and heating and provide an observational signature of gravitational instability (GI). We use global 3D simulations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 Wenrui Xu , Yan-Fei Jiang , Matthew W. Kunz , James M. Stone

The filamentary nature of accretion streams found around embedded sources suggest that protostellar disks experience heterogenous infall from the star-forming environment, consistent with the accretion behavior onto star-forming cores in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Aleksandra Kuznetsova , Jaehan Bae , Lee Hartmann , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

Debris discs provide valuable insights into the formation and evolution of exoplanetary systems. Their structures are commonly attributed to planetary perturbations, serving as probes of as-yet-undetected planets. However, most studies of…

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

The Rossby wave instability (RWI), which depends on the density bumps and extremum in the vortensities in the differentially rotating discs, plays an important role in the evolution of the protoplanetary discs. In this article, we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Mahmoud Gholipour , Mohsen Nejad-Asghar

We explore the linear stability of astrophysical discs exhibiting vertical shear, which arises when there is a radial variation in the temperature or entropy. Such discs are subject to a "vertical-shear instability", which recent nonlinear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Adrian J. Barker , Henrik N. Latter