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Super-thermal gas giant planets or their progenitor cores are known to open deep gaps in protoplanetary disks, which stop large, drifting dust particles on their way to the inner disk. The possible separation of the disk into distinct…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 Thomas Pfeil , Philip J. Armitage , Yan-Fei Jiang

We present a novel method for determining the surface density of protoplanetary disks through consideration of disk 'dust lines' which indicate the observed disk radial scale at different observational wavelengths. This method relies on the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 Diana Powell , Ruth Murray-Clay , Hilke E. Schlichting

We calculate the chemical evolution of protoplanetary disks considering radial viscous accretion, vertical turbulent mixing and vertical disk winds. We study the effects on the disk chemical structure when different models for the formation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Dominikus Heinzeller , Hideko Nomura , Catherine Walsh , Tom J. Millar

Dust growth is a crucial step in planet formation, and the efficiency of this process is controlled by the physical and chemical properties of the dust grains. Monte Carlo-based methods are commonly used to follow the collisional evolution…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Nerea Gurrutxaga , Vignesh Vaikundaraman , Joanna Drazkowska

We present a novel method for particle splitting in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations. Our method utilizes the Voronoi diagram for a given particle set to determine the position of fine daughter particles. We perform several test…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-02 Gen Chiaki , Naoki Yoshida

In a series of papers, we present a comprehensive analytic study of the global motion of growing dust grains in protoplanetary discs, addressing both the radial drift and the vertical settling of the particles. Here we study how the radial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Guillaume Laibe , Jean-François Gonzalez , Sarah T. Maddison

Dust constitutes only about one percent of the mass of circumstellar disks, yet it is of crucial importance for the modeling of planet formation, disk chemistry, radiative transfer and observations. The initial growth of dust from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 T. Birnstiel

We model the dust evolution in protoplanetary disks with full 3D, Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), two-phase (gas+dust) hydrodynamical simulations. The gas+dust dynamics, where aerodynamic drag leads to the vertical settling and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 J. -F Gonzalez , G Laibe , S. T. Maddison , C Pinte , F Ménard

In this article we review the methods used to determine the gas and dust masses of protoplanetary disks, with an emphasis on the lesser characterized total gas mass. Our review encompasses all the indirect tracers and the methodology that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Edwin A. Bergin , Jonathan P. Williams

We propose a mechanism by which dust rings in protoplanetary disks can form and be long-lasting compared to gas rings. This involves the existence of a pressure maximum which traps dust either in between two gap-opening planets or at the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-21 Farzana Meru , Sascha P. Quanz , Maddalena Reggiani , Clement Baruteau , Jaime E. Pineda

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

The processes that govern the evolution of dust and water (in the form of vapor or ice) in protoplanetary disks are intimately connected. We have developed a model that simulates dust coagulation, dust dynamics (settling, turbulent mixing),…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Sebastiaan Krijt , Fred J. Ciesla , Edwin A. Bergin

mcdust is a parallel simulation code for dust evolution in protoplanetary disks. The code is written in FORTRAN90 and parallelised with OpenMP. The code models dust collisional evolution and transport in the vertical and radial directions.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Vignesh Vaikundaraman , Nerea Gurrutxaga , Joanna Drążkowska

We investigate the dynamics of dust grains with various sizes in protoplanetary disk winds driven by magnetorotational turbulence, by simulating the time evolution of the dust grain distribution in the vertical direction. Small dust grains,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Tomoya Miyake , Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We investigate the simultaneous evolution of dust and gas density profiles at a radial pressure bump located in a protoplanetary disk. If dust particles are treated as test particles, a radial pressure bump traps dust particles that drift…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Tetsuo Taki , Masaki Fujimoto , Shigeru Ida

Protoplanets may be born into dust-rich environments if planetesimals formed through streaming or gravitational instabilities, or if the protoplanetary disc is undergoing mass loss due to disc winds or photoevaporation. Motivated by this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-08 Jhih-Wei Chen , Min-Kai Lin

Stellar flybys are likely to be common in young star-forming regions and could be responsible for substructures observed in protoplanetary discs. Using three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations, we study dust trapping in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Vasundhara R. Prasad , Cristiano Longarini , Cathie J. Clarke

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

Dust substructures in protoplanetary discs can be signatures of embedded young planets whose detection and characterisation would provide a better understanding of planet formation. Traditional techniques used to link substructures'…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 A. Ruzza , G. Lodato , G. P. Rosotti , P. J. Armitage

The streaming instability, a promising mechanism to drive planetesimal formation in dusty protoplanetary discs, relies on aerodynamic drag naturally induced by the background radial pressure gradient. This gradient should vary in disks, but…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-09 Stanley A. Baronett , Chao-Chin Yang , Zhaohuan Zhu