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Abridged: Recent simulations have explored different ways to form accretion disks around low-mass stars. We aim to present observables to differentiate a rotationally supported disk from an infalling rotating envelope toward deeply embedded…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-29 Daniel Harsono , Ewine van Dishoeck , Simon Bruderer , Zhi-Yun Li , Jes Jorgensen

The chemical evolution of the inner regions of protoplanetary discs is a complex process. Several factors influence it, one being the inward drift and evaporation of volatile-rich pebbles. During the disc's evolution, its inner part is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-06 Julia Lena Lienert , Bertram Bitsch , Thomas Henning

It is likely that young protostellar disks undergo a self-gravitating phase. Such systems are characterized by the presence of a spiral pattern that can be either in a quasi-steady state or in a nonlinear unstable condition. This spiral…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Cristiano Longarini , Giuseppe Lodato , Claudia Toci , Benedetta Veronesi , Cassandra Hall , Ruobing Dong , Jason Patrick Terry

In regions where stars form, variations in density and temperature can cause gas to freeze-out onto dust grains forming ice mantles, which influences the chemical composition of a cloud. The aim of this paper is to understand in detail the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 S. Cazaux , R. Martin-Domenech , Y. J. Chen , G. M. Munoz Caro , C. Gonzalez Diaz

Circumplanetary discs can be linearly unstable to the growth of disc tilt in the tidal potential of the star-planet system. We use three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations to characterize the disc conditions needed for instability,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Rebecca G. Martin , Zhaohuan Zhu , Philip J. Armitage , Chao-Chin Yang , Hans Baehr

This is the second paper in a series where we study the influence of transport processes on the chemical evolution of protoplanetary disks. Our analysis is based on a flared alpha-model of the DM Tau system, coupled to a large gas-grain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 D. Semenov , D. Wiebe

(Abridged) Aims & Methods. A two-dimensional, semi-analytical model is presented that follows, for the first time, the chemical evolution from a collapsing molecular cloud (a pre-stellar core) to a protostar and circumstellar disk. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Visser , E. F. van Dishoeck , S. D. Doty , C. P. Dullemond

To date, most simulations of the chemistry in protoplanetary discs have used 1+1D or 2D axisymmetric $\alpha$-disc models to determine chemical compositions within young systems. This assumption is inappropriate for non-axisymmetric,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 M. G. Evans , J. D. Ilee , A. C. Boley , P. Caselli , R. H. Durisen , T. W. Hartquist , J. M. C. Rawlings

We investigate the evolution of interfaces among phases of the interstellar medium with different temperature. It is found that, for some initial conditions, the dynamical effects related to conductive fronts are very important even if…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Andrea Ferrara , Yuri Shchekinov

We perform three-dimensional self-gravitating radiative transfer simulations of protoplanet migration in circumstellar discs to explore the impact upon migration of the radial temperature profiles in these discs. We model protoplanets with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Ben A. Ayliffe , Matthew R. Bate

Angular momentum transport within young massive protoplanetary discs may be dominated by self-gravity at radii where the disk is too weakly ionized to allow the development of the magneto-rotational instability. We use time-dependent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-15 W. K. M. Rice , P. J. Armitage

Stellar flybys are a common dynamical process in young stellar clusters and can significantly reshape protoplanetary discs. However, their impact on dust dynamics remains poorly understood, particularly in the weakly coupled regime…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Wei-Shan Su , Jeremy L. Smallwood , Min-Kai Lin , Chao-Chin Yang , Nicolás Cuello

Thermally bistable fluid tends to self-organize into clouds of hot and cold material, which are internally uniform and separated by thin conduction fronts. The evolution of these clouds has been studied for isobaric systems, but when…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Henry Fetsch , Nathaniel J. Fisch

Cold debris disks trace the limits of planet formation or migration in the outer regions of planetary systems, and thus have the potential to answer many of the outstanding questions in wide-orbit planet formation and evolution. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Nicholas P. Ballering , George H. Rieke , Kate Y. L. Su , Edward Montiel

We review the general theoretical concepts and observational constraints on the distribution and evolution of water vapor and ice in protoplanetary disks, with a focus on the Solar System. Water is expected to freeze out at distances…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Lee Hartmann , Fred Ciesla , Oliver Gressel , Richard Alexander

In the context of planet formation, anticyclonic vortices have recently received lots of attention for the role they can play in planetesimals formation. Radial migration of intermediate size solids toward the central star may prevent their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 H. Meheut , R. Keppens , F. Casse , W. Benz

Hydrodynamical instabilities in disks around young stars depend on the thermodynamic stratification of the disk and on the local rate of thermal relaxation. Here, we map the spatial extent of unstable regions for the Vertical Shear…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-05 Thomas Pfeil , Hubert Klahr

(Abridged) We consider the properties of protoplanetary discs that are undergoing inside-out clearing by photoevaporation. In particular, we aim to characterise the conditions under which a protoplanetary disc may undergo `thermal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 James E. Owen , Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , Cathie J. Clarke , Luke Robins

Nonlinear time-dependent calculations have been carried out in order to study the evolution of the thermal instability for optically thick, transonic, slim accretion discs around black holes. In the present calculations we have investigated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ewa Szuszkiewicz , John C. Miller