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The factors affecting vortex growth in convectively stable protoplanetary disks are explored using numerical simulations of a two-dimensional anelastic-gas model which includes baroclinic vorticity production and radiative cooling. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mark R. Petersen , Glen R. Stewart , Keith Julien

Discs of gas and dust are ubiquitous around protostars. Hypothetical disc viscosity is thought to cause the gas and dust to accrete onto the star. Turbulence within the disc might be the source of this disc viscosity. However, observed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 Kurt Liffman

Axisymmetric dust rings containing tens to hundreds of Earth masses of solids have been observed in protoplanetary discs with (sub-)millimetre imaging. Here, we investigate the growth of a planetary embryo in a massive (150M$_\oplus$)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Daniel P. Cummins , James E. Owen , Richard A. Booth

Vortices in protoplanetary disks have attracted attention since the discovery of lopsided structures. One of the possible mechanisms for producing vortices is the Rossby Wave Instability (RWI). In our previous work, we have performed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Tomohiro Ono , Takayuki Muto , Kengo Tomida , Zhaohuan Zhu

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 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

The evolution of gravitationally unstable protoplanetary gaseous disks has been studied with the use of three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations with unprecedented resolution. We have considered disks with initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lucio Mayer , Thomas Quinn , James Wadsley , Joachim Stadel

We carried out two-dimensional high-resolution simulations to study the effect of dust feedback on the evolution of vortices induced by massive planets in protoplanetary disks. Various initial dust to gas disk surface density ratios…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-30 Wen Fu , Hui Li , Stephen Lubow , Shengtai Li , Edison Liang

Recent observations of several protoplanetary discs have found evidence of departures from flat, circular motion in the inner regions of the disc. One possible explanation for these observations is a disc warp, which could be induced by a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Rebecca Nealon , Giovanni Dipierro , Richard Alexander , Rebecca Martin , Chris Nixon

We study the effect of large-scale magnetic fields on the non-axisymmetric Rossby wave instability (RWI) in accretion discs. The instability develops around a density bump, which is likely present in the transition region between the active…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Cong Yu , Dong Lai

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

We study the stability of gaps opened by a giant planet in a self-gravitating protoplanetary disc. We find a linear instability associated with both the self-gravity of the disc and local vortensity maxima which coincide with gap edges. For…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Min-Kai Lin , John Papaloizou

The irradiation of protoplanetary discs by central stars is the main heating mechanism for discs, resulting in their flared geometric structure. In a series of papers, we investigate the deep links between 2D self-consistent disc structure…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Yasuhiro Hasegawa , Ralph E. Pudritz

We identify a new dust instability that occurs in warped discs. The instability is caused by the oscillatory gas motions induced by the warp in the bending wave regime. We first demonstrate the instability using a local 1D (vertical) toy…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-13 Hossam Aly , Rebecca Nealon , Jean-François Gonzalez

Young protoplanetary discs are expected to be gravitationally unstable, which can drive angular momentum transport as well as be a potential mechanism for planet formation. Gravitational instability is most prevalent in the outer disc where…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 Caitriona S. Leedham , Richard A. Booth , Cathie J. Clarke

We study particle trapping at the edge of a gap opened by a planet in a protoplanetary disk. In particular, we explore the effects of turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability on particle trapping, using global…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Zhaohuan Zhu , James M. Stone

We investigate the planetary migration of low-mass planets ($M_p\in[1,15]M_\oplus$, here $M_\oplus$ is the Earth mass) in a gaseous disc containing a previously formed gap. We perform high-resolution 3D simulations with the FARGO3D code. To…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 Raúl O. Chametla , F. J. Sánchez-Salcedo , Mauricio Reyes-Ruiz , Carlos Carrasco-González , Ondrej Chrenko

We consider the formation and evolution of vortices in a hydrodynamic shearing-sheet model. The evolution is done numerically using a version of the ZEUS code. Consistent with earlier results, an injected vorticity field evolves into a set…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Bryan M. Johnson , Charles F. Gammie

We investigate the gravitational interaction between low- to intermediate-mass planets ($M_p \in[0.06-210]\,M_{\oplus}$) and two previously formed pressure bumps in a gas-dust protoplanetary disc. We explore how the disc structure changes…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 R. O. Chametla , O. Chrenko

Among the candidates for generating turbulence in accretion discs in situations with low intrinsic ionization the vertical shear instability (VSI) has become an interesting candidate, as it relies purely on a vertical gradient in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Moritz H. R. Stoll , Wilhelm Kley
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