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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

Context. The Dust Settling Instabilty (DSI) is a member of the Resonant Drag Instabilities (RDI) family, and is thus related to the Streaming Instability (SI). Linear calculations found that the unstratified monodisperse DSI has growth…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Hossam Aly , Sijme-Jan Paardekooper

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

Context: The streaming instability (SI) is a leading candidate for reaching solid densities sufficient to trigger the gravitational collapse needed for the formation of planetesimals. However, dust growth barriers appear to impede the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 V. Vallucci-Goy , U. Lebreuilly , M. -M. Mac Low , P. Hennebelle

The streaming instability (SI) is one of the most promising candidates for triggering planetesimal formation by producing dense dust clumps that undergo gravitational collapse. Understanding how the SI operates in realistic protoplanetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Chun-Yen Hsu , Min-Kai Lin

Planetesimal formation is a crucial yet poorly understood process in planet formation. It is widely believed that planetesimal formation is the outcome of dust clumping by the streaming instability (SI). However, recent analytical and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Ziyan Xu , Xue-Ning Bai

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

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

The streaming instability (SI), driven by aerodynamic coupling between solids and the gas under a global radial pressure gradient, concentrates solids and facilitates planetesimal formation. Unstratified simulations are commonly used to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Jeonghoon Lim , Stanley A. Baronett , Jacob B. Simon , Chao-Chin Yang , Debanjan Sengupta , Orkan M. Umurhan , Wladimir Lyra

We identify and study a number of new, rapidly growing instabilities of dust grains in protoplanetary disks, which may be important for planetesimal formation. The study is based on the recognition that dust-gas mixtures are generically…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-18 Jonathan Squire , Philip F. Hopkins

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

The streaming instability (SI) is a leading mechanism for planetesimal formation, driving the aerodynamic concentration of solids in protoplanetary disks. The SI triggers strong clumping (i.e., strong enough for clumps to collapse) when the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Jeonghoon Lim , Jacob B. Simon , Rixin Li , Olivia Brouillette , David G. Rea , Wladimir Lyra

The streaming instability (SI) is a mechanism to aerodynamically concentrate solids in protoplanetary disks and trigger the formation of planetesimals. The SI produces strong particle clumping if the ratio of solid to gas surface density --…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-15 Rixin Li , Andrew Youdin

The streaming instability (SI) is a leading candidate for planetesimal formation, which can concentrate solids through two-way aerodynamic interactions with the gas. The resulting concentrations can become sufficiently dense to collapse…

The interaction between gas and dust in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) plays a crucial role in setting the stage of planet formation. In particular, the streaming instability (SI) is well recognized as the mechanism for planetesimal formation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-25 Pinghui Huang , Xue-Ning Bai

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

The streaming instability is a promising mechanism for planetesimal formation. The instability can rapidly form dense clumps that collapse self-gravitationally, which is efficient for large dust grains with the Stokes number on the order of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-04 Ryosuke T. Tominaga , Hidekazu Tanaka

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

Streaming Instability (SI) in dust has long been thought to be a promising process in triggering planetesimal formation in the protoplanetary disks (PPDs). In this study, we present the first numerical investigation that models the SI in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Ka Wai Ho , Hui Li , Shengtai Li

There is growing evidence that planet formation begins early, within the $\lesssim 1$Myr Class 0/I phase, when infall dominates disk dynamics. Our goal is to determine if Class 0/I disks reach the conditions needed to form planetesimals…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-21 Daniel Carrera , Abigail Davenport , Jacob B. Simon , Hans Baehr , Til Birnstiel , Cassandra Hall , David Rea , Sebastian Stammler
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