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We study the formation of rocky planets by dry pebble accretion from self-consistent dust-growth models. In particular, we aim at computing the maximum core mass of a rocky planet that can sustain a thin H-He atmosphere to account for the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Julia Venturini , Octavio M. Guilera , M. Paula Ronco , Christoph Mordasini

In this first paper in a series we present a study of the global dust emission distribution in nearby edge-on spiral galaxies. Our sample consists of 16 angularly large and 13 less spatially resolved galaxies selected from the DustPedia…

The instability in protoplanetary disks due to gas-dust friction and self-gravity of gas and dust is investigated by linear analysis. In the case where the dust to gas ratio is enhanced and turbulence is week, the instability grows, even in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Sanemichi Z. Takahashi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Large-scale vertical magnetic fields are believed to play a key role in the evolution of protoplanetary discs. Associated with non-ideal effects, such as ambipolar diffusion, they are known to launch a wind that could drive accretion in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 A. Riols , G. Lesur , F. Menard

We propose a new evolutionary process of protoplanetary disks "co-evolution of dust grains and protoplanetary disks", revealed by dust-gas two-fluid non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics simulations considering the growth of dust and associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Yusuke Tsukamoto , Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) have revealed many dust rings in protoplanetary disks, often interpreted as dust traps at gas pressure bumps. Previous studies…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Linhan Yang , Ya-Ping Li , Ruobing Dong , Kiyoaki Doi , Hauyu Baobab Liu , Pinghui Huang

Protoplanetary discs exhibit a diversity of gaps and rings of dust material, believed to be a manifestation of pressure maxima commonly associated with an ongoing planet formation and several other physical processes. Hydrodynamic disc…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-18 Geoffrey Andama , Nelson Ndugu , Simon . K. Anguma , Edward Jurua

Due to their aerodynamical coupling with gas, pebbles in protoplanetary discs can drift over large distances to support planet growth in the inner disc. In the past decade, this pebble accretion has been studied extensively for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Helong Huang , Chris W. Ormel

Recent theoretical works suggest that the pebble accretion process is important for planet formation in protoplanetary disks, because it accelerates the growth of planetary cores. While several observations reveal axisymmetric sharp gaps in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Yuki A. Tanaka , Yusuke Tsukamoto

Substructures such as rings, gaps, and cavities are commonly observed in protoplanetary discs and are thought to play a key role in dust evolution and planet formation. However, a fraction of the extended discs (68% dust radii > 30 AU) in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Quincy Bosschaart , Osmar M. Guerra-Alvarado , Nienke van der Marel , Gijs D. Mulders

We explore how measurements of protoplanetary disc masses and accretion rates provided by surveys of star forming regions can be analysed via the dimensionless accretion parameter, which we define as the product of the accretion rate and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Giovanni P. Rosotti , Cathie J. Clarke , Carlo F. Manara , Stefano Facchini

We review advances in the modeling of protoplanetary disks. This review will focus on the regions of the disk beyond the dust sublimation radius, i.e. beyond 0.1 - 1 AU, depending on the stellar luminosity. We will be mostly concerned with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. P. Dullemond , D. Hollenbach , I. Kamp , P. D'Alessio

The settling of dust particles plays a critical role in the growth and dynamics of dust grains. We performed a detailed modeling of the ALMA continuum substructures for six highly inclined protoplanetary discs using radiative transfer…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 Juanita Antilen , Paola Pinilla , Dafa Li , Marion Villenave , Anibal Sierra , Yao Liu , Myriam Benisty , Christian Ginski

Pebble accretion refers to the assembly of rocky planet cores from particles whose velocity dispersions are damped by drag from circumstellar disc gas. Accretion cross-sections can approach maximal Hill-sphere scales for particles whose…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Jonathan W. Lin , Eve J. Lee , Eugene Chiang

CO is the most widely used gas tracer of protoplanetary disks. Its abundance is usually assumed to be an interstellar ratio throughout the warm molecular layer of the disk. But recent observations of low CO gas abundance in many…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Ke Zhang , Edwin A. Bergin , Kamber R. Schwarz , Sebastiaan Krijt , Fred Ciesla

We review the properties of dust in protoplanetary disks around optically visible pre-main sequence stars obtained with a variety of observational techniques, from measurements of scattered light at visual and infrared wavelengths to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Natta , L. Testi , N. Calvet , Th. Henning , R. Waters , D. Wilner

Context. To form metre-sized pre-planetesimals in protoplanetary discs, growing grains have to decouple from the gas before they are accreted onto the central star during their phase of fast radial migration and thus overcome the so-called…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Guillaume Laibe , Jean-François Gonzalez , Sarah T. Maddison

We explore in situ formation and subsequent evolution of close-in super-Earths and mini-Neptunes. We adopt a steady-state inner protoplanetary gas disc structure that arises from viscous accretion due to the magneto-rotational instability…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Marija R. Jankovic , James E. Owen , Subhanjoy Mohanty

We study the evolution of protoplanetary discs that would have been precursors of a Trappist-1 like system under the action of accretion and external photoevaporation in different radiation environments. Dust grains swiftly grow above the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Thomas J. Haworth , Stefano Facchini , Cathie J. Clarke , Subhanjoy Mohanty

The radial velocities and direct imaging observations of exoplanets have suggested that the frequency of giant planets may decrease for intermediate-mass stars ($2.5-8\,M_\odot$). The key mechanism that could hinder their formation remains…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Paola Pinilla , Antonio Garufi , Matías Gárate