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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

Most stars form in a clustered environment. Therefore, it is important to assess how this environment influences the evolution of protoplanetary discs around young stars. In turn, this affects their ability to produce planets and ultimately…

Abridged: We use three-dimensional SPH simulations to investigate the collapse of low-mass prestellar cores and the formation and early evolution of protostellar discs. The initial conditions are slightly supercritical Bonnor-Ebert spheres…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Walch , A. Burkert , A. Whitworth , T. Naab , M. Gritschneder

It has been suggested that circumstellar disks evolve from dense, actively accreting structures to low-mass, replenished remnants. During this transition, grains may assemble into planetesimals, or the disk may be cleared by newborn…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ray Jayawardhana

The inner edge of the dead zone in protoplanetary disks has been shown to periodically go unstable, leading to accretion outbursts and annular substructure within the dead zone. While dust opacities play a key role in this process, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Alexandros Ziampras , Tilman Birnstiel , Nicolas Kaufmann , Michael Cecil , Thomas Pfeil

Protostellar discs play an important role in star formation, acting as the primary mass reservoir for accretion onto young stars and regulating the extent to which angular momentum and gas is released back into stellar nurseries through the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 C. A. Nolan , R. Salmeron , C. Federrath , G. V. Bicknell , R. S. Sutherland

Protoplanetary disks are the sites of planet formation, and the evolution and eventual dispersal of these disks strongly influences the formation of planetary systems. Disk evolution during the planet-forming epoch is driven by accretion…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Richard Alexander , Ilaria Pascucci , Sean Andrews , Philip Armitage , Lucas Cieza

Rings and gaps are commonly observed in the dust continuum emission of young stellar disks. Previous studies have shown that substructures naturally develop in the weakly ionized gas of magnetized, non-ideal MHD disks. The gas rings are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Xiao Hu , Zhi-Yun Li , Zhaohuan Zhu , Chao-Chin Yang

High resolution ALMA observations of protoplanetary disks have revealed that many, if not all primordial disks consist of ring-like dust structures. The origin of these dust rings remains unclear, but a common explanation is the presence of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Nienke van der Marel , Jonathan Williams , Simon Bruderer

We study the stellar discs and spheroids in eight simulations of galaxy formation within Milky Way-mass haloes in a Lambda Cold Dark Matter cosmology. A first paper in this series concentrated on disc properties. Here, we extend this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Cecilia Scannapieco , Simon D. M White , Volker Springel , Patricia B. Tissera

ALMA has revolutionized our view of protoplanetary disks, revealing structures such as gaps, rings and asymmetries that indicate dust trapping as an important mechanism in the planet formation process. However, the high resolution images…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-19 Nienke van der Marel , Brenda Matthews , Ruobing Dong , Tilman Birnstiel , Andrea Isella

New ALMA observations of protoplanetary disks allow us to probe planet formation in other systems, giving us new constraints on planet formation processes. Meanwhile, studies of our own Solar System rely on constraints derived in a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 C. Bergez-Casalou , B. Bitsch , N. T. Kurtovic , P. Pinilla

Previous axisymmetric investigations in two dimensions (2D) have shown that rings and gaps develop naturally in non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) disk-wind systems, especially in the presence of ambipolar diffusion (AD). Here we extend…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Scott S. Suriano , Zhi-Yun Li , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Takeru K. Suzuki , Hsien Shang

The formation and evolution of the circumstellar disk in the collapsing molecular cloud is investigated from the prestellar stage resolving both the molecular cloud core and the protostar itself. In the collapsing cloud, the first adiabatic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Masahiro N. Machida , Tomoaki Matsumoto

We investigate the occurrence of accretion bursts, dust accumulation, and the prospects for planetesimal formation in a gravitationally unstable magnetized protoplanetary disk with globally suppressed but episodically triggered…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-21 Indrani Das , Eduard Vorobyov , Shantanu Basu

Aims: We explore the long-term evolution of young protoplanetary disks with different approaches to computing the thermal structure determined by various cooling and heating processes in the disk and its surroundings. Methods: Numerical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Eduard I. Vorobyov , Ryoki Matsukoba , Kazuyuki Omukai , Manuel Guedel

Protoplanets can interact with their natal disks and generate gas and dust substructures such as gaps and rings. However, how these planet-induced substructures affect the disk temperature, and how that in turn influences the substructures,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-04 Kan Chen , Paola Pinilla , Mihkel Kama

The inner regions of protoplanetary disks, within ten astronomical units, are where terrestrial planets are born. By developing a new class of multi-dust radiative magnetized inner rim models, we can gain valuable insights into the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Mario Flock , Ondřej Chrenko , Takahiro Ueda , Myriam Benisty , Jozsef Varga , Roy van Boekel

The formation of galactic discs and the efficiency of star formation within them are issues central to our understanding of galaxy formation. We have developed a detailed and versatile model of disc formation which combines the strengths of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-09 M. J. Stringer , A. J. Benson

Protoplanetary discs are dynamic environments where the interplay between chemical processes and mass transport shapes the composition of gas and dust available for planet formation. We investigate the combined effects of volatile chemistry…