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Dust grains embedded in gas flow give rise to a class of hydrodynamic instabilities, called resonant drag instabilities. These instabilities have predominantly been studied for single grain sizes, in which case they are found to grow fast.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Sijme-Jan Paardekooper , Hossam Aly

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

Streaming instability is a key mechanism in planet formation, clustering pebbles into planetesimals. It is triggered at a particular disk location where the local volume density of solids exceeds that of the gas. After their formation,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Beibei Liu , Chris W. Ormel , Anders Johansen

We present a new instability driven by a combination of coagulation and radial drift of dust particles. We refer to this instability as ``coagulation instability" and regard it as a promising mechanism to concentrate dust particles and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Ryosuke T. Tominaga , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Hiroshi Kobayashi

The streaming instability is a promising mechanism to drive the formation of planetesimals in protoplanetary disks. To trigger this process, it has been argued that sedimentation of solids onto the mid-plane needs to be efficient and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Chao-Chin Yang , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Anders Johansen

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

Planet formation via core accretion requires the production of km-sized planetesimals from cosmic dust. This process must overcome barriers to simple collisional growth, for which the Streaming Instability (SI) is often invoked. Dust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Colin P. McNally , Francesco Lovascio , Sijme-Jan Paardekooper

For a long time, gravitational instability in the disk of planetesimals has been suspected to be the main engine responsible for the beginning of dust growth, its advantage being that it provides for rapid growth. Its real importance in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Tanga , S. J. Weidenschilling , P. Michel , D. C. Richardson

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

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

We introduce a new Lagrangian smooth-particle method to model the growth and drift of pebbles in protoplanetary disks. The Lagrangian nature of the model makes it especially suited to follow characteristics of individual (groups of)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Djoeke Schoonenberg , Chris W. Ormel , Sebastiaan Krijt

Various instabilities have been proposed as a promising mechanism to accumulate dust. Moreover, some of them are expected to lead to the multiple-ring structure formation and the planetesimal formation in protoplanetary disks. In a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Ryosuke T. Tominaga , Sanemichi Z. Takahashi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Protoplanetary discs (PPDs) can host a number of instabilities that may partake directly or indirectly in the process of planetesimal formation. These include the Vertical Shear Instability (VSI), Convective Overstability (COS), Streaming…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Marius Lehmann , Min-Kai Lin

Laboratory experiments indicate that direct growth of silicate grains via mutual collisions can only produce particles up to roughly millimeters in size. On the other hand, recent simulations of the streaming instability have shown that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Chao-Chin Yang , Anders Johansen , Daniel Carrera

Dust concentration in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) is the first step towards planetesimal formation, a crucial yet highly uncertain stage in planet formation. Although the streaming instability (SI) is widely recognized as a powerful…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Pinghui Huang , Xue-Ning Bai

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

We investigate streaming instability using two-fluid approximation (neutral gas and dust) in a quasi-global, unstratified protoplanetary disc, with the help of PIERNIK code. We compare amplification rate of the eigen-mode in numerical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-24 Kacper Kowalik , Michal Hanasz , Dominik Wóltański , Artur Gawryszczak

Protoplanetary disks naturally emerge during protostellar core-collapse. In their early evolutionary stages, infalling material dominates their dynamical evolution. In the context of planet formation, this means that the conditions in young…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 L. -A. Hühn , C. P. Dullemond , U. Lebreuilly , R. S. Klessen , A. Maury , G. P. Rosotti , P. Hennebelle , E. Pacetti , L. Testi , S. Molinari

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

The streaming instability is the leading model for planetesimal formation in protoplanetary disks, but it typically operates within the first ~Myr. In the Solar System, however, some planetesimals (the chondrite parent bodies) formed 2-4…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-29 Maya Tatarelli , Alessandro Morbidelli , Elena Lega