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Dust coagulation in protoplanetary disks is not straightforward and is subject to several slow-down mechanisms, such as bouncing, fragmentation and radial drift to the star. Furthermore, dust grains in UV-shielded disk regions are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Vitaly Akimkin , Alexei V. Ivlev , Paola Caselli , Munan Gong , Kedron Silsbee

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

Recent surveys of protoplanetary disks show that substructure in dust thermal continuum emission maps is common in protoplanetary disks. These substructures, most prominently rings and gaps, shape and change the chemical and physical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-17 Felipe Alarcon , Richard Teague , Ke Zhang , Edwin Bergin , Marcelo Barraza-Alfaro

Vertical gas and dust flows in protoplanetary discs waft material above the midplane region in the presence of a protoplanet. This motion may alter the delivery of dust to the planet and its circumplanetary disc, as well as through a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 Hannah J. Petrovic , Richard A. Booth , Cathie J. Clarke

We investigate dust dynamics and evolution during the formation of a protostellar accretion disk around intermediate mass stars via 2D numerical simulations. Using three different detailed dust models, compact spherical particles, fractal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gerhard Suttner , Harold W. Yorke

Planet formation via core accretion involves the growth of solids that can accumulate to form planetary cores. There are a number of barriers to the collisional growth of solids in protostellar discs, one of which is the drift, or metre,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-02 Ken Rice , Hans Baehr , Alison K Young , Richard Booth , Sahl Rowther , Farzana Meru , Cassandra Hall , Adam Koval

Dust trapping in the global pressure bump induced by magnetospheric truncation offers a promising formation mechanism for close-in super-Earths/sub-Neptunes. These planets likely form in evolved protoplanetary discs, where the gas…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-23 Rixin Li , Yi-Xian Chen , Douglas N. C. Lin

Aims. The initial stages of planet formation may start concurrently with the formation of a gas-dust protoplanetary disk. This makes the study of the earliest stages of protoplanetary disk formation crucially important. Here we focus on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-05 Eduard Vorobyov , Igor Kulikov , Vardan Elbakyan , James McKevitt , Manuel Guedel

It is often argued that gravitational instability of realistic protoplanetary discs is only possible at distances larger than $\sim 50$ au from the central star, requiring high disc masses and accretion rates, and that therefore disc…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-12 Hans Lee , Sergei Nayakshin , Richard A. Booth

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

In order to explain grain growth to mm sized particles and their retention in outer regions of protoplanetary disks, as it is observed at sub-mm and mm wavelengths, we investigate if strong inhomogeneities in the gas density profiles can…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-14 P. Pinilla , T. Birnstiel , L. Ricci , C. P. Dullemond , A. L. Uribe , L. Testi , A. Natta

The tidal perturbation of embedded protoplanets on their natal disks has been widely attributed to be the cause of gap-ring structures in sub-mm images of protoplanetary disks around T Tauri stars. Numerical simulations of this process have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Yi-Xian Chen , Zhuoxiao Wang , Ya-Ping Li , Clément Baruteau , Douglas N. C. Lin

Super-Earths exist around subsolar-metallicity host stars with a frequency comparable to that around solar-metallicity stars, suggesting efficient assembly of dust grains even in metal-deficient environments. In this study, we propose a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 Ryoki Matsukoba , Eduard I. Vorobyov , Takashi Hosokawa

Dust coagulation in a protoplanetary disk is the first step of planetesimal formation. However, a pathway from dust aggregates to planetesimals remains unclear. Both numerical simulations and laboratory experiments have suggested the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Ryo Tazaki , Hidekazu Tanaka , Akimasa Kataoka , Satoshi Okuzumi , Takayuki Muto

Recent analyses of mm-wavelength protoplanetary disk observations have revealed several emission excesses on the previously identified dust rings, referred to as dust shoulders. The prevalence of dust shoulders suggests that they trace a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-01 Jiaqing Bi , Min-Kai Lin

Coagulation of submicron-sized dust grains into porous aggregates is the initial step of dust evolution in protoplanetary disks. Recently, it has been pointed out that negative charging of dust in the weakly ionized disks could…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Satoshi Okuzumi , Hidekazu Tanaka , Taku Takeuchi , Masa-aki Sakagami

We carry out three dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations to study the role of gravitational and drag forces on the concentration of large dust grains (St > 1) in the spiral arms of gravitationally unstable protoplanetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-25 Sahl Rowther , Rebecca Nealon , Farzana Meru , James Wurster , Hossam Aly , Richard Alexander , Ken Rice , Richard A. Booth

Planet formation in the discs around young stars involves the coagulation of sub-micron sized dust grains into much larger grains that may be mixed by turbulence and migrate through the disc. In this paper, we describe how we have combined…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Matthew R. Bate , Mark A. Hutchison , Daniel Elsender

The consistency of planet formation models suffers from the disconnection between the regime of small and large bodies. This is primarily caused by so-called growth barriers: the direct growth of larger bodies is halted at centimetre-sized…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Joanna Drazkowska , Yann Alibert , Ben Moore

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