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Context: The global size and spatial distribution of dust is an important ingredient in the structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks and in the formation of larger bodies, such as planetesimals. Aims: We aim to derive simple…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-12 T. Birnstiel , H. Klahr , B. Ercolano

Observations of protoplanetary discs have revealed dust rings which are likely due to the presence of pressure bumps in the disc. Because these structures tend to trap drifting pebbles, it has been proposed that pressure bumps may play an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 Arnaud Pierens , Sean N. Raymond

Proto-planetary disc surveys conducted with ALMA are measuring disc radii in multiple star forming regions. The disc radius is a fundamental quantity to diagnose whether discs undergo viscous spreading, discriminating between viscosity or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Giovanni P. Rosotti , Marco Tazzari , Richard A. Booth , Leonardo Testi , Giuseppe Lodato , Cathie Clarke

Observations of protoplanetary disks have revealed them to be complex and dynamic, with vertical and radial transport of gas and dust occurring simultaneously with chemistry and planet formation. Previous models of protoplanetary disks…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-18 Eric Van Clepper , Jennifer B. Bergner , Arthur D. Bosman , Edwin Bergin , Fred J. Ciesla

Protoplanetary disc mass is one of the most fundamental properties of a planet-forming system, as it sets the total mass budget available for planet formation. However, obtaining disc mass measurements remain challenging, since it is not…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Matthew Murray , Cassandra Hall , Hans Baehr , Jason Terry

Recent detailed observations of protoplanetary discs revealed a lot of sub-structures which are mostly ring-like. One interpretation is that these rings are caused by growing planets. These potential planets are not yet opening very deep…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Nelson Ndugu , Bertram Bitsch , Edward Jurua

(abridged) In the core accretion scenario for the formation of planetary rocky cores, the first step toward planet formation is the growth of dust grains into larger and larger aggregates and eventually planetesimals. Although dust grains…

In our previous study (Tsukamoto {\it et al.} 2023), we investigated formation and early evolution of protoplanetary disks with 3D non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics simulations considering dust growth, and found that the modified equations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Yusuke Tsukamoto

Millimeter emitting dust grains have sizes that make them susceptible to drift in protoplanetary disks due to a difference between their orbital speed and that of the gas. The characteristic drift timescale depends on the surface density of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Jonathan P. Williams , Caleb Painter , Alexa R. Anderson , Alvaro Ribas

Aims. We numerically investigated dust enrichment and growth during the initial stages of protoplanetary disk formation. A particular objective was to determine the effects of various growth barriers, mimicked by imposing a series of upper…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 E. I. Vorobyov , V. G. Elbakyan , A. Skliarevskii , V. Akimkin , I. Kulikov

Protoplanetary discs contain a wide range of dust sizes that influence their thermal structure and planet formation processes such as planetesimal formation and pebble accretion. Dust evolution models are therefore essential for both planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-22 Linn E. J. Eriksson , Thomas Pfeil , Nicolas Kaufmann , Vignesh Vaikundaraman

Planetesimal formation via the streaming and gravitational instabilities of dust in protoplanetary disks requires a local enhancement of the dust-to-gas mass ratio. Radial drift of large grains toward pressure bumps in gas disks is a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-21 Satoshi Okuzumi

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

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

Recent theories suggest planetesimal formation via streaming and/or gravitational instabilities may be triggered by localized enhancements in the dust-to-gas ratio, and one hypothesis is that sufficient enhancements may be produced in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Anna L. H. Hughes , Philip J. Armitage

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

The presence of distant protoplanets may explain the observed gaps in the dust emission of protoplanetary disks. Here, we derive a novel analytical model to describe the temporal decay of the pebble flux through a protoplanetary disk as the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-07 Nerea Gurrutxaga , Anders Johansen , Michiel Lambrechts , Johan Appelgren

In the core accretion model, planetesimals grow by mutual collisions and engulfing millimeter-to-centimeter particles, i.e., pebbles. Pebble accretion can significantly increase the accretion efficiency and help explain the presence of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-16 Tong Fang , Hui Zhang , Shangfei Liu , Beibei Liu , Hongping Deng

Relatively large dust grains (referred to as pebbles) accumulate at the outer edge of the gap induced by a planet in a protoplanetary disk, and a ring structure with a high dust-to-gas ratio can be formed. Such a ring has been thought to be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Kazuhiro D. Kanagawa , Takayuki Muto , Hidekazu Tanaka

Enhancing the local dust-to-gas ratio in protoplanetary discs is a necessary first step to planetesimal formation. In laminar discs, dust settling is an efficient mechanism to raise the dust-to-gas ratio at the disc midplane. However,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Min-Kai Lin