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We study stability of a dust layer in a gaseous disc subject to the linear axisymmetric perturbations. Instead of considering single-size particles, however, the population of dust particles is assumed to consist of two grain species. Dust…

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We show that small solids in low mass, turbulent protoplanetary disks collect into self-gravitating rings. Growth is faster than disk lifetimes and radial drift times for moderately strong turbulence, characterized by dimensionless…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew N. Youdin

The size distribution of asteroids and Kuiper belt objects in the solar system is difficult to reconcile with a bottom-up formation scenario due to the observed scarcity of objects smaller than $\sim$100 km in size. Instead, planetesimals…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Daniel Carrera , Anders Johansen , Melvyn B. Davies

Dust coagulation in a protoplanetary disk is the first step of planetesimal formation. However, a pathway from dust aggregates to planetesimals remains unclear. Both numerical simulations and laboratory experiments have suggested the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Ryo Tazaki , Hidekazu Tanaka , Akimasa Kataoka , Satoshi Okuzumi , Takayuki Muto

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

We studied the linear and nonlinear evolution of the Vertical Shear Instability (VSI) in axisymmetric models of protoplanetary disks, focusing on the transport of angular momentum, the produced temperature perturbations, and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-19 Julio David Melon Fuksman , Mario Flock , Hubert Klahr

We revisit the global linear theory of the vertical shear instability (VSI) in protoplanetary discs with an imposed radial temperature gradient. We focus on the regime in which the VSI has the form of a travelling inertial wave that grows…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-24 Gordon I. Ogilvie , Henrik N. Latter , Geoffroy Lesur

One of the main questions in planet formation theory is how to cross the metre-scale barrier. In this two-part series, we assess the merits of vortex-based theories by investigating the effect of backreacting dust on vortices. Specifically,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Nathan Magnan , Henrik Nils Latter

One of the most challenging steps in planet formation theory is the one leading to the formation of planetesimals of kilometre size. A promising scenario involves the existence of vortices able to concentrate a large amount of dust and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 H. Meheut , Z. Meliani , P. Varniere , W. Benz

We present a novel study of dust-vortex evolution in global two-fluid disk simulations to find out if evolution toward high dust-to-gas ratios can occur in a regime of well-coupled grains with low Stokes numbers ($St=10^{-3}-{4\times…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Clément Surville , Lucio Mayer

We present the results of high-resolution, three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamic simulations of the dynamics and formation of coherent, long-lived vortices in stably-stratified protoplanetary disks. Tall, columnar vortices that extend…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Barranco , P. S. Marcus

We study dust capture by vortices and its long-term consequences in global two-fluid inviscid disk simulations using a new polar grid code RoSSBi. We perform the longest integrations so far, several hundred disk orbits, at the highest…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Clément Surville , Lucio Mayer , Douglas N. C. Lin

The streaming instability (SI) is a mechanism to aerodynamically concentrate solids in protoplanetary disks and facilitate the formation of planetesimals. Recent numerical modeling efforts have demonstrated the increasing complexity of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-09 Rixin Li , Andrew Youdin , Jacob Simon

As dust settles in a protoplanetary disk, a vertical shear develops because the dust-rich gas in the midplane orbits at a rate closer to true Keplerian than the slower-moving dust-depleted gas above and below. A classical analysis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Joseph A. Barranco

Large-scale vortices in protoplanetary disks are thought to form and survive for long periods of time. Hence, they can significantly change the global disk evolution and particularly the distribution of the solid particles embedded in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 P. Barge , L. Ricci , C. L. Carilli , R. Previn-Ratnasingam

Protoplanetary discs are dynamic environments where the interplay between chemical processes and mass transport shapes the composition of gas and dust available for planet formation. We investigate the combined effects of volatile chemistry…

Aims. Dust plays a crucial role in the evolution of protoplanetary disks. We study the dynamics and growth of initially sub-$\mu m$ dust particles in self-gravitating young protoplanetary disks with various strengths of turbulent viscosity.…

Recently it is proposed that porous icy dust aggregates are formed by pairwise accretion of dust aggregates beyond the snowline. We calculate the equilibrium random velocity of porous dust aggregates taking into account mutual gravitational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Shugo Michikoshi , Eiichiro Kokubo

Forming macroscopic solid bodies in circumstellar discs requires local dust concentration levels significantly higher than the mean. Interactions of the dust particles with the gas must serve to augment local particle densities, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Holly L. Capelo , Jan Molacek , Michiel Lambrechts , John Lawson , Anders Johansen , Jurgen Blum , Eberhard Bodenschatz , Haitao Xu

Clumping by streaming instability (SI) leading to gravitational collapse is the leading proposed mechanism for forming planetesimals, the building blocks of terrestrial planets and giant-planet cores. The critical dust-to-gas density ratio…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Linn E. J. Eriksson , Ziyan Xu , Jeonghoon Lim , Chao-Chin Yang , Pinghui Huang , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low