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We present a new approach for simulating the atmospheric dynamics of the close-in giant planet HD209458b that allows for the decoupling of radiative and thermal energies, direct stellar heating of the interior, and the solution of the full…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ian Dobbs-Dixon , Andrew Cumming , D. N. C Lin

Circumstellar disks of gas and dust are naturally formed from contracting pre-stellar molecular cores during the star formation process. To study various dynamical and chemical processes that take place in circumstellar disks prior to their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-27 Eduard I. Vorobyov , Yaroslav N. Pavlyuchenkov

Understanding the thermal structure of protoplanetary disks is crucial for modeling planet formation and interpreting disk observations. We present a new two-layer radiative transfer model for computing the thermal structure of axisymmetric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Satoshi Okuzumi , Takahiro Ueda , Neal J. Turner

We report on the results of the first 3D SPH simulation of massive, gravitationally unstable protoplanetary disks with radiative transfer. We adopt a flux-limited diffusion scheme justified by the high opacity of most of the disk. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lucio Mayer , Graeme Lufkin , Thomas Quinn , James Wadsley

Observational manifestations of disturbances in a protoplanetary disk caused by a collision with a massive planet are studied. It is assumed that the planet moves along a parabolic trajectory that intersects the disk plane near the star.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Tatiana Demidova , Vitaliy Grigoryev

In isothermal disks the migration of protoplanets is directed inward. For small planetary masses the standard type-I migration rates are so fast that this may result in an unrealistic loss of planets into the stars. We investigate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Wilhelm Kley , Aurelien Crida

Both core accretion and disk instability appear to be required as formation mechanisms in order to explain the entire range of giant planets found in extrasolar planetary systems. Disk instability is based on the formation of clumps in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alan P. Boss

Gravitational coupling between young planets and their parent disks is often explored using numerical simulations, which typically treat the disk thermodynamics in a highly simplified manner. In particular, many studies adopt the locally…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Ryan Miranda , Roman R. Rafikov

We investigate water and deuterated water chemistry in turbulent protoplanetary disks. Chemical rate equations are solved with the diffusion term, mimicking turbulent mixing in vertical direction. Water near the midplane is transported to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Kenji Furuya , Yuri Aikawa , Hideko Nomura , Franck Hersant , Valentine Wakelam

Local-box hydrodynamical model atmospheres provide statistical information about the spatial dependence, as well as temporal evolution, of a star's emergent radiation field. Here, we consider late-type stellar atmospheres for which temporal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hans-G. Ludwig

Photoevaporation of planet forming discs by high energy radiation from the central star is potentially a crucial mechanism for disc evolution and it may play an important role in the formation and evolution of planetary system. We present…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-25 Giovanni Picogna , Barbara Ercolano , James E. Owen , Michael L. Weber

The growth of structure from scale-free initial conditions is one of the most important tests of cosmological simulation methods, providing a realistically complex problem in which numerical results can be compared to rigorous analytic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Michael Owen , David H. Weinberg , Jens V. Villumsen

We present an effective system for simulating dust continuum observations by radiative transfer simulations. By using workflow management system RENKEI-WFT, we utilized distributed computing resources and automated a sequence of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-11 Kazutaka Motoyama , Yoshikazu Tanaka , Kento Aida , Eisaku Sakane , Kenichi Miura

We study the time evolution of two protoplanets still embedded in a protoplanetary disk. The results of two different numerical approaches are presented and compared. In the first approach, the motion of the disk material is computed with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wilhelm Kley , Jochen Peitz , Geoffrey Bryden

The growth of bubbles in cosmological first-order phase transitions involves nontrivial hydrodynamics. For that reason, the study of the propagation of phase transition fronts often requires several approximations. A frequently used…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Leonardo Leitao , Ariel Megevand

Convection is ubiquitous in stellar and planetary interiors where it likely plays an integral role in the generation of magnetic fields. As the interiors of these objects remain hidden from direct observation, numerical models of convection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Brandon J. Lazard , Nicholas A. Featherstone , Jonathan M. Aurnou

Stars in the Galactic disc, including the Solar system, have deviated from their birth orbits and have experienced radial mixing and vertical heating. By performing hydrodynamical simulations of a galactic disc, we investigate how much…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-07 Yusuke Fujimoto , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Junichi Baba

Radiation transport plays a crucial role in star formation models, as certain questions within this field cannot be accurately addressed without taking it into account. Given the high complexity of the interstellar medium from which stars…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-11 Richard Wünsch

Radiative transfer calculations are essential for modeling planetary atmospheres. However, standard methods are computationally demanding and impose accuracy-speed trade-offs. High computational costs force numerical simplifications in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Isaac Malsky , Tiffany Kataria , Natasha E. Batalha , Matthew Graham

We present radiation transfer (RT) simulations of evolutionary sequences of massive protostars forming from massive dense cores in environments of high surface densities. The protostellar evolution is calculated with a detailed multi-zone…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Yichen Zhang , Jonathan C. Tan , Takashi Hosokawa