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Observational manifestations of disturbances in a protoplanetary disk caused by a collision with a massive planet are studied. It is assumed that the planet moves along a parabolic trajectory that intersects the disk plane near the star.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Tatiana Demidova , Vitaliy Grigoryev

Following the assumption that the disc substructures observed in protoplanetary discs originate from the interaction between the disc and the forming planets embedded therein, we aim to test if these putative planets could represent the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 Anastasia Tzouvanou , Bertram Bitsch , Gabriele Pichierri

Recent observations of several protoplanetary discs have found evidence of departures from flat, circular motion in the inner regions of the disc. One possible explanation for these observations is a disc warp, which could be induced by a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Rebecca Nealon , Giovanni Dipierro , Richard Alexander , Rebecca Martin , Chris Nixon

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

The detection of planets in protoplanetary disks has proven to be extremely challenging. In contrast, rings and gaps, usually attributed to planet-disk interactions, have been found in virtually every large protoplanetary (Class II) disk…

Context: While sub-micron- and micron-sized dust grains are generally well mixed with the gas phase in protoplanetary disks, larger grains will be partially decoupled and as a consequence have a different distribution from that of the gas.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Laure Fouchet , Jean-François Gonzalez , Sarah T. Maddison

Recent high-resolution interferometric observations of protoplanetary disks at (sub-)millimeter wavelengths reveal omnipresent substructures, such as rings, spirals, and asymmetries. A detailed investigation of eight rings detected in five…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Sebastian M. Stammler , Joanna Drazkowska , Til Birnstiel , Hubert Klahr , Cornelis P. Dullemond , Sean M. Andrews

Protoplanetary disks observed in scattered light reveal essential insights into the disk's three-dimensional architecture and dust properties. These disks, which play a crucial role in planet formation, have complex structures where the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-16 Joel George , Carsten Dominik , Christian Ginski

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

Over the last years, large (sub-)millimetre surveys of protoplanetary disks have well constrained the demographics of disks, such as their millimetre luminosities, spectral indices, and disk radii. Additionally, several high-resolution…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Jochen Stadler , Matías Gárate , Paola Pinilla , Christian Lenz , Cornelis P. Dullemond , Til Birnstiel , Sebastian M. Stammler

Recent ALMA observations have identified a variety of dust gaps in protoplanetary disks, which are commonly interpreted to be generated by unobserved planets. Predicting mass of such embedded planets is of fundamental importance in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Shijie Wang , Kazuhiro D. Kanagawa , Yasushi Suto

Giant planets embedded in circumstellar discs are expected to open gaps in these discs. We examine the vertical structure of the gap edges. We find that the planet excites spiral arms with significant (Mach number of a half) vertical motion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. G. Edgar , A. C. Quillen

The disks that orbit young stars are the essential conduits and reservoirs of material for star and planet formation. Their structures, meaning the spatial variations of the disk physical conditions, reflect the underlying mechanisms that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Sean M. Andrews

In recent years, high-angular-resolution observations of the dust and gas in circumstellar discs have revealed a variety of morphologies, naturally triggering the question of whether these substructures are driven by forming planets. While…

Over the past decade, advancement of observational capabilities, specifically the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and SPHERE instrument, alongside theoretical innovations like pebble accretion, have reshaped our…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-30 Tilman Birnstiel

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

The gravitational influence of a planet on a nearby disk provides a powerful tool for detecting and studying extrasolar planetary systems. Here we demonstrate that gaps can be opened in dynamically cold debris disks at the mean-motion…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-30 Maryam Tabeshian , Paul Wiegert

Observations of the youngest planets ($\sim$1-10 Myr for a transitional disk) will increase the accuracy of our planet formation models. Unfortunately, observations of such planets are challenging and time-consuming to undertake even in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Jack Dobinson , Zoe M. Leinhardt , Stefan Lines , Philip J. Carter , Sarah E. Dodson-Robinson , Nick A. Teanby

Extensive ground and space based surveys have now characterized the properties of thousands of exoplanets; their radii, masses, orbits around their host stars, and the beginnings of accurate measurements of the chemical compositions of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-30 Ralph E. Pudritz , Alex J. Cridland , Julie Inglis , Mathew Alessi

Structures observed in debris disks may be caused by gravitational interaction with planetary or stellar companions. These perturbed disks are often thought to indicate the presence of planets and offer insights into the properties of both…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-29 Maryam Tabeshian , Paul A. Wiegert