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The radial drift and diffusion of dust particles in protoplanetary disks affect both the opacity and temperature of such disks as well as the location and timing of planetesimal formation. In this paper, we present results of numerical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Noemi Schaffer , Chao-Chin Yang , Anders Johansen

We report the finding of a new, local diffusion instability in a protoplanetary disk, which can operate in a dust fluid, subject to mass diffusion, shear viscosity, and dust-gas drag, provided diffusivity, viscosity, or both decrease…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-22 Konstantin Gerbig , Min-Kai Lin , Marius Lehmann

The streaming instability is considered one of the leading candidates for the formation of planetesimals, due to its ability to overcome the bouncing and fragmentation barriers. The formation of dense dust clumps through this process,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Arnaud Pierens , Thomas Collin-Dufresne , Min-Kai Lin , Emmanuel DiFolco

The streaming instability is a promising mechanism to overcome the barriers in direct dust growth and lead to the formation of planetesimals. Most previous studies of the streaming instability, however, were focused on a local region of a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Chao-Chin Yang , Anders Johansen

Using self-consistent models of turbulent particle growth in an evolving protoplanetary nebula of solar composition we find that recently proposed local metallicity and Stokes number criteria necessary for the streaming instability to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Paul R. Estrada , Orkan M. Umurhan

The streaming instability (SI) is currently the leading candidate for triggering planetesimal formation in protoplanetary disks. Recently, a novel variation, the `azimuthal-drift' streaming instability (AdSI), was discovered in disks…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-21 Shiang-Chih Wang , Min-Kai Lin

We present a series of simulations of turbulent stratified protostellar discs with the goal of characterizing the settling of dust throughout a minimum-mass solar nebula. We compare the evolution of both compact spherical grains, as well as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 D. A. Tilley , D. S. Balsara , S. D. Brittain , T. Rettig

In the recent years, sub/mm observations of protoplanetary disks have discovered an incredible diversity of substructures in the dust emission. An important result was the finding that dust grains of mm size are embedded in very thin dusty…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Mario Flock , Andrea Mignone

Instabilities of the dust layer in a protoplanetary disk are investigated. It is known that the streaming instability develops and dust density concentration occurs in a situation where the initial dust density is uniform. This work…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-29 Naoki Ishitsu , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Minoru Sekiya

The streaming instability concentrates solid particles in protoplanetary disks, leading to gravitational collapse into planetesimals. Despite its key role in producing particle clumping and determining critical length scales in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Charles P. Abod , Jacob B. Simon , Rixin Li , Philip J. Armitage , Andrew N. Youdin , Katherine A. Kretke

We analyse the concentration of solid particles in vortices created and sustained by radial buoyancy in protoplanetary disks, i.e. baroclinic vortex growth. Besides the gas drag acting on particles we also allow for back-reaction from dust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Natalie Raettig , Hubert Klahr , Wladimir Lyra

The streaming instability is an efficient method for overcoming the barriers to planet formation in protoplanetary discs. The streaming instability has been extensively modelled by hydrodynamic simulations of gas and a single dust size.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Jip Matthijsse , Hossam Aly , Sijme-Jan Paardekooper

The streaming instability is a mechanism whereby pebble-sized particles in protoplanetary discs spontaneously come together in dense filaments, which collapse gravitationally to form planetesimals upon reaching the Roche density. The extent…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-14 Urs Schäfer , Anders Johansen , Troels Haugbølle , Åke Nordlund

Streaming instability is considered to be one of the dominant processes to promote planetesimal formation by gravitational collapse of dust clumps. The development of streaming instability is expected to form dust clumps in which the local…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-10 Ryosuke T. Tominaga , Hidekazu Tanaka

Context: How planets form in protoplanetary disks and what drives the formation of their seeds is still a major unknown. It is an accepted theory that multiple processes can trap dusty material in radially narrow rings or vortex-like…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Dominik Ostertag , Mario Flock

Fast type-I migration of (proto)planets poses a challenging problem for the core accretion formation scenario. We found that the dust-induced ``Streaming Torque (ST)'' may slow down or even reverse the planet migration in \cite{Hou2024}.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-19 Qiang Hou , Cong Yu

Streaming instability is hypothesized to be triggered at particular protoplanetary disk locations where the volume density of the solid particles is enriched comparable to that of the gas. A ring of planetesimals thus forms when this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 Hyerin Jang , Beibei Liu , Anders Johansen

We revisit, via a very simplified set of equations, a linear streaming instability (technically an overstability), which is present in, and potentially important for, dusty protoplanetary disks (Youdin & Goodman 2005). The goal is a better…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Emmanuel Jacquet , Steven A. Balbus , Henrik N. Latter

The streaming instability (SI) has been extensively studied in the linear and non-linear regimes as a mechanism to concentrate solids and trigger planetesimal formation in the midplane of protoplanetary discs. A related dust settling…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-17 Leonardo Krapp , Andrew N. Youdin , Kaitlin M. Kratter , Pablo Benítez-Llambay

Statistical studies of protoplanetary disks and exoplanet populations often exhibit a "missing mass" problem, where observed dust masses in (sub-)millimeter surveys are significantly lower than expected when compared to the mass of evolved…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-13 Daniel Godines , Wladimir Lyra , Luca Ricci , Chao-Chin Yang , Jacob B. Simon , Jeonghoon Lim , Daniel Carrera