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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

Stellar flybys are likely to be common in young star-forming regions and could be responsible for substructures observed in protoplanetary discs. Using three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations, we study dust trapping in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Vasundhara R. Prasad , Cristiano Longarini , Cathie J. Clarke

We present a methodology to interpret observations of protoplanetary discs where a flyby, also called a tidal encounter, is suspected. In case of a flyby, protoplanetary discs can be significantly disturbed. The resulting dynamical and…

Tidal encounters in star clusters perturb discs around young protostars. In Cuello et al. (2019a, Paper I) we detailed the dynamical signatures of a stellar flyby in both gas and dust. Flybys produce warped discs, spirals with evolving…

We consider the dynamics of dust and gas during the clearing of protoplanetary discs. We work within the context of a photoevaporation/viscous model for the evolution of the gas disc, and use a two-fluid model to study the dynamics of dust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. D. Alexander , P. J. Armitage

We study the dynamics of a viscous protoplanetary disc hosting a population of dust grains with a range of sizes. We compute steady-state solutions, and show that the radial motion of both the gas and the dust can deviate substantially from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-26 Giovanni Dipierro , Guillaume Laibe , Richard Alexander , Mark Hutchison

Observations reveal protoplanetary discs being perturbed by flyby candidates. We simulate a scenario where an unbound perturber, i.e., a flyby, undergoes an inclined grazing encounter, capturing material and forming a second-generation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-06 Jeremy L. Smallwood , Rebecca Nealon , Nicolás Cuello , Ruobing Dong , Richard A. Booth

We study the dynamics and growth of dust particles in circumstellar disks of different masses that are prone to gravitational instability during the critical first Myr of their evolution. The dust component is made up of two different…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Vardan G. Elbakyan , Anders Johansen , Michiel Lambrechts , Vitaly Akimkin , Eduard I. Vorobyov

Recent observations of protoplanetary discs reveal disc substructures potentially caused by embedded planets. We investigate how the gas surface density in discs changes the observed morphology in scattered light and dust continuum…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 B. Veronesi , G. Lodato , G. Dipierro , E. Ragusa , C. Hall , D. J. Price

The dynamics of dust and gas can be quite different from each other when the dust is poorly coupled to the gas. In protoplanetary discs, it is well known that this decoupling of the dust and gas can lead to diverse spatial structures and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-10 Matthew R. Bate , Pablo Loren-Aguilar

Context. Current models of the size- and radial evolution of dust in protoplanetary disks generally oversimplify either the radial evolution of the disk (by focussing at one single radius or by using steady state disk models) or they assume…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-03 T. Birnstiel , C. P. Dullemond , F. Brauer

The motion of solid particles embedded in gaseous protoplanetary disks is influenced by turbulent fluctuations. Consequently, the dynamics of moderately to weakly coupled solids can be distinctly different from the dynamics of the gas.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Fabian Binkert , Judit Szulágyi , Til Birnstiel

Gas and dust in inclined orbits around binaries experience precession induced by the binary gravitational torque. The difference in precession between gas and dust alters the radial drift of weakly coupled dust and leads to density…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Hossam Aly , Jean-François Gonzalez , Rebecca Nealon , Cristiano Longarini , Giuseppe Lodato , Daniel J. Price

We investigate the dynamics of dust grains with various sizes in protoplanetary disk winds driven by magnetorotational turbulence, by simulating the time evolution of the dust grain distribution in the vertical direction. Small dust grains,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Tomoya Miyake , Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Spiral arms are observed in numerous protoplanetary discs. These spiral arms can be excited by companions, either on bound or unbound orbits. We simulate a scenario where an unbound perturber, i.e. a flyby, excites spiral arms during a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Jeremy L. Smallwood , Chao-Chin Yang , Zhaohuan Zhu , Rebecca G. Martin , Ruobing Dong , Nicolás Cuello , Andrea Isella

Binary systems exert a gravitational torque on misaligned discs orbiting them, causing differential precession which may produce disc warping and tearing. While this is well understood for gas-only discs, misaligned cirumbinary discs of gas…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-10 Hossam Aly , Giuseppe Lodato

Dust growth from micron- to planet-size in protoplanetary discs involves multiple physical processes, including dust collisions, the streaming instability, and pebble accretion. Disc turbulence and dust fragility matter at almost every…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Simin Tong , Richard Alexander , Giovanni Rosotti

Stellar fly-bys can have multiple dynamical effects on protoplanetary disks, including warping and the excitation of spiral arms. Since observations indicate that warps are common, we aim to investigate these effects for different fly-by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 C. N. Kimmig , P. Weber , G. P. Rosotti , S. Facchini , C. P. Dullemond

Aims: We investigate the behaviour of dust in protoplanetary disks under the action of gas drag in the presence of a planet. Our goal is twofold: to determine the spatial distribution of dust depending on grain size and planet mass, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Fouchet , S. T. Maddison , J. -F. Gonzalez , J. R. Murray

Gravitational instability (GI) controls the dynamics of young massive protoplanetary discs. Apart from facilitating gas accretion on to the central protostar, it must also impact on the process of planet formation: directly through…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 A. Riols , B. Roux , H. Latter , G. Lesur
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