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The recently discovered resonant drag instability (RDI) of dust streaming in protoplanetary disc is considered as the mode coupling of subsonic gas-dust mixture perturbations. This mode coupling is coalescence of two modes with nearly equal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 V. V. Zhuravlev

The formation of planetesimals in protoplanetary disks is not well-understood. Streaming instability is a promising mechanism to directly form planetesimals from pebble-sized particles, provided a high enough solids-to-gas ratio. However,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Djoeke Schoonenberg , Chris W. Ormel

We estimate minimum dust abundances required for secular gravitational instability (SGI) to operate at the midplane dust layer of protoplanetary disks. For SGI to be a viable process, the growth time of the instability T_grow must be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Taku Takeuchi , Shigeru Ida

We identify a new dust instability that occurs in warped discs. The instability is caused by the oscillatory gas motions induced by the warp in the bending wave regime. We first demonstrate the instability using a local 1D (vertical) toy…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-13 Hossam Aly , Rebecca Nealon , Jean-François Gonzalez

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

We analyse the concentration of solid particles in vortices created and sustained by radial buoyancy in protoplanetary disks, i.e. baroclinic vortex growth. Besides the gas drag acting on particles we also allow for back-reaction from dust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Natalie Raettig , Hubert Klahr , Wladimir Lyra

The streaming instability for solid particles in protoplanetary disks is re-examined assuming the familiar alpha ($\alpha$) model for isotropic turbulence. Turbulence always reduces the growth rates of the streaming instability relative to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-26 Orkan. M. Umurhan , Paul. R. Estrada , Jeffrey N. Cuzzi

We present a series of simulations of turbulent stratified protostellar discs with the goal of characterizing the settling of dust throughout a minimum-mass solar nebula. We compare the evolution of both compact spherical grains, as well as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 D. A. Tilley , D. S. Balsara , S. D. Brittain , T. Rettig

(Abridged) Recent surveys of young star formation regions have shown that the average Class II object does not have enough dust mass to make the cores of giant planets. Younger Class 0/I objects have enough dust in their embedded disk,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 A. J. Cridland , G. P. Rosotti , B. Tabone , L. Tychoniec , M. McClure , E. F. van Dishoeck

The origin of observed planetary systems, including our Solar System, as well as their diversity, is still an open question. Streaming instability (SI) is an important mechanism for the formation of gravitationally bound planetesimals,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Kundan Kadam , Zsolt Regály

The solid content of circumstellar disks is inherited from the interstellar medium: dust particles of at most a micrometer in size. Protoplanetary disks are the environment where these dust grains need to grow at least 13 orders of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-19 T. Birnstiel , M. Fang , A. Johansen

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

The streaming instability is the leading model for planetesimal formation in protoplanetary disks, but it typically operates within the first ~Myr. In the Solar System, however, some planetesimals (the chondrite parent bodies) formed 2-4…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-29 Maya Tatarelli , Alessandro Morbidelli , Elena Lega

Late in the gaseous phase of a protostellar disk, centimeter-sized bodies probably settle into a thin ``dust layer'' at the midplane. A velocity difference between the dust layer and the gas gives rise to turbulence, which prevents further…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Goodman , B. Pindor

In protoplanetary disks, the formation of planetesimals via streaming and/or gravitational instabilities requires regions with a locally enhanced dust-to-gas mass ratio. Conventionally, gas pressure maxima sustained by gas surface density…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Ryo Kato , Takahiro Ueda , Satoshi Okuzumi

Planetesimal formation is a crucial yet poorly understood process in planet formation. It is widely believed that planetesimal formation is the outcome of dust clumping by the streaming instability (SI). However, recent analytical and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Ziyan Xu , Xue-Ning Bai

We have recently shown that spiral density waves propagating in accretion disks can undergo a parametric instability by resonantly coupling with and transferring energy into pairs of inertial waves (or inertial-gravity waves when buoyancy…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Jaehan Bae , Richard P. Nelson , Lee Hartmann

The streaming instability and pebble accretion are two physical mechanisms with demonstrated potentials to drive, respectively, the formation of planetesimals and the growth of planetary systems containing a diverse range of planetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Anders Johansen , Wladimir Lyra

Context: The radial drift and fragmentation of small dust grains in protoplanetary discs impedes their growth past centimetre sizes. Several mechanisms have been proposed to overcome these planet formation barriers, such as dust porosity or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Jean-François Gonzalez , Stéphane Michoulier

We present local simulations that verify the linear streaming instability that arises from aerodynamic coupling between solids and gas in protoplanetary disks. This robust instability creates enhancements in the particle density in order to…

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