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The streaming instability is a popular candidate for planetesimal formation by concentrating dust particles to trigger gravitational collapse. However, its robustness against physical conditions expected in protoplanetary disks is unclear.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 Kan Chen , Min-Kai Lin

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

Turbulence in protoplanetary disks affects dust evolution and planetesimal formation. The vertical shear instability (VSI) is one of the candidate turbulence-driving mechanisms in the outer disk region. Since the VSI requires rapid gas…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yuya Fukuhara , Mario Flock , Satoshi Okuzumi , Ryosuke T. Tominaga

The formation of planetesimals via the streaming instability (SI) is a crucial step in planet formation, yet its triggering conditions and efficiency are highly sensitive to both disk properties and specific evolutionary processes. We aim…

The vertical shear instability (VSI) is a hydrodynamical instability that requires rapid gas cooling and has been suggested to operate in outer regions of protoplanetary disks. The VSI drives turbulence with strong vertical motions, which…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Yuya Fukuhara , Satoshi Okuzumi , Tomohiro Ono

Recent years have seen growing interest in the streaming instability as a candidate mechanism to produce planetesimals. However, these investigations have been limited to small-scale simulations. We now present the results of a global…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Daniel Carrera , Uma Gorti , Anders Johansen , Melvyn B. Davies

Interpenetrating streams of solids and gas in a Keplerian disk produce a local, linear instability. The two components mutually interact via aerodynamic drag, which generates radial drift and triggers unstable modes. The secular instability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrew N. Youdin , Jeremy Goodman

The streaming instability is a promising mechanism to overcome the barriers in direct dust growth and lead to the formation of planetesimals. Most previous studies of the streaming instability, however, were focused on a local region of a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Chao-Chin Yang , Anders Johansen

We present simulations of the non-linear evolution of streaming instabilities in protoplanetary disks. The two components of the disk, gas treated with grid hydrodynamics and solids treated as superparticles, are mutually coupled by drag…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Anders Johansen , Andrew Youdin

We present a new instability driven by a combination of coagulation and radial drift of dust particles. We refer to this instability as ``coagulation instability" and regard it as a promising mechanism to concentrate dust particles and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Ryosuke T. Tominaga , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Hiroshi Kobayashi

Streaming instability is hypothesized to be triggered at particular protoplanetary disk locations where the volume density of the solid particles is enriched comparable to that of the gas. A ring of planetesimals thus forms when this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 Hyerin Jang , Beibei Liu , Anders Johansen

The vertical shear instability and the streaming instability are two robust sources of turbulence in protoplanetary disks. The former has been found to induce anisotropic turbulence that is stronger in the vertical than in the radial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-15 Urs Schäfer , Anders Johansen , Mario Flock

Kilometre-sized planetesimals form from pebbles of a range of sizes. We present the first simulations of the streaming instability that begin with a realistic, peaked size distribution, as expected from grain growth predictions. Our 3D…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-28 Josef Rucska , James Wadsley

Streaming instability is a privileged channel to bridge the gap between collisional growth of dust grains and planetesimal formation triggered by gravity. This instability is thought to develop through its secular mode, which is long-time…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Etienne Jaupart , Guillaume Laibe

The radial drift and diffusion of dust particles in protoplanetary disks affect both the opacity and temperature of such disks as well as the location and timing of planetesimal formation. In this paper, we present results of numerical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Noemi Schaffer , Chao-Chin Yang , Anders Johansen

Laboratory experiments indicate that direct growth of silicate grains via mutual collisions can only produce particles up to roughly millimeters in size. On the other hand, recent simulations of the streaming instability have shown that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Chao-Chin Yang , Anders Johansen , Daniel Carrera

The consistency of planet formation models suffers from the disconnection between the regime of small and large bodies. This is primarily caused by so-called growth barriers: the direct growth of larger bodies is halted at centimetre-sized…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Joanna Drazkowska , Yann Alibert , Ben Moore

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

The spatial distribution of dust particles in protoplanetary disks affects dust evolution and planetesimal formation processes. The vertical shear instability (VSI) is one of the candidate hydrodynamic mechanisms that can generate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-25 Yuya Fukuhara , Satoshi Okuzumi

Among the candidates for generating turbulence in accretion discs in situations with low intrinsic ionization the vertical shear instability (VSI) has become an interesting candidate, as it relies purely on a vertical gradient in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Moritz H. R. Stoll , Wilhelm Kley