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We calculate the evolution of a star-forming cloud core using a three-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamics simulation, treating dust grains as Lagrangian particles, to investigate the dust motion in the early star formation stage. We…

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We performed numerical simulations of the common envelope (CE) interaction between two intermediate-mass asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars and their low-mass companions. For the first time, formation and growth of dust in the envelope is…

Dust growth and settling considerably affect the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of protoplanetary disks. We investigated dust growth and settling in protoplanetary disks through numerical simulations to examine time-evolution of the…

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We present the first implementation of an evolving dust grain size distribution (GSD) within a semi-analytic cosmological model (SAM) of galaxy evolution. This flexible model self-consistently accounts for stellar dust production,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-09 Massimiliano Parente , Desika Narayanan , Paul Torrey

Debris disc analysis and modelling provide crucial information about the structure and the processes at play in extrasolar planetary systems. In binary systems, this issue is more complex because the disc should in addition respond to the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Philippe Thebault , Francesco Marzari , Jean-Charles Augereau

We investigate the linear growth and vertical structure of the MRI in protoplanetary discs when dust grains are well mixed with the gas over the entire disc thickness. All the grains have the same radius (a = 0.1, 1 or 3 micron) and…

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Mass loss is a fundamental, observationally well-established feature of AGB stars but many aspects of this process still remain to be understood. To date, self-consistent dynamical models of dust-driven winds reproducing the observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-10 H. Olofsson , S. Ramstedt , S. Sacuto , M. Maercker , S. Höfner , F. Kerschbaum

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

Mineralogical studies of silicate features emitted by dust grains in protoplanetary disks and Solar System bodies can shed light on the progress of planet formation. The significant fraction of crystalline material in comets, chondritic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Isa Oliveira , Johan Olofsson , Klaus M. Pontoppidan , Ewine F. van Dishoeck , Jean-Charles Augereau , Bruno Merin

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

CONTEXT: Asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars are in one of the latest evolutionary stages of low to intermediate-mass stars. Their vigorous mass loss has a significant effect on the stellar evolution, and is a significant source of heavy…

Core-accretion planet formation begins in protoplanetary disks with the growth of small, ISM dust grains into larger particles. The progress of grain growth, which can be quantified using 10 micron silicate spectroscopy, has broad…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Andrew J. I. Skemer , Laird M. Close , Thomas P. Greene , Philip M. Hinz , William F. Hoffmann , Jared R. Males

We present an H-band image of the light scattered from circumstellar dust around the nearby (10 pc) young M star AU Microscopii (AU Mic, GJ 803, HD 197481), obtained with the Keck adaptive optics system. We resolve the disk both vertically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stanimir Metchev , Joshua A. Eisner , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Sebastian Wolf

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

The early evolution of protostellar, star-forming discs, including their density structure, turbulence, magnetic dynamics, and accretion variability, remains poorly understood. We present high-resolution magnetohydrodynamic simulations,…

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For revealing the first step of the plant formation, it is important to understand how and when dust grains become larger in a disk around a protostar. To investigate the grain growth, we analyze dust continuum emission toward a disk around…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Satoshi Ohashi , Hiroshi Kobayashi , Jinshi Sai , Nami Sakai

Stars on the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) produce dust in their circumstellar shells. The nature of the dust-forming environment is influenced by the evolution of the stars, in terms of both chemistry and density, leading to an evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Angela Speck , Grant Thompson , Anne Hofmeister

(abridged) Debris disks around main sequence stars are produced by the erosion and evaporation of unseen parent bodies. AU Microscopii (GJ 803) is a compelling object to study in the context of disk evolution across different spectral…

Context.Transition disks are believed to be the final stages of protoplanetary disks, during which a forming planetary system or photoevaporation processes open a gap in the inner disk, drastically changing the disk structure. From…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-17 P. Pinilla , M. Benisty , T. Birnstiel

We investigate whether stellar dust sources i.e. asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars and supernovae (SNe) can account for dust detected in 5<z<6.5 quasars (QSOs). We calculate the required dust yields per AGB star and per SN using the dust…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Michał J. Michałowski , Eric J. Murphy , Jens Hjorth , Darach Watson , Christa Gall , James S. Dunlop