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We present the results of 2D and 3D hydrodynamic simulations of idealized protoplanetary discs that examine the formation and evolution of vortices by the vertical shear instability (VSI). In agreement with recent work, we find that discs…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-01 Samuel Richard , Richard P. Nelson , Orkan M. Umurhan

We examine the linear stability of a flow threaded by a weak, vertical magnetic field in a disk with a keplerian rotation profile and a vertical stratification of the ionization degree as that predicted for vast portions of protoplanetary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mauricio Reyes-Ruiz

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

Rossby wave instability (RWI) is considered the underlying mechanism to crescent-shaped azimuthal asymmetries, discovered in (sub-)millimeter dust continuum of many protoplanetary disks. Previous works on linear theory were conducted in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 Can Cui , Ashutosh Tripathi , Cong Yu , Min-Kai Lin , Andrew Youdin

The gas dynamics in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) is strongly affected by non-ideal MHD effects. Using a complex chemical reaction network with standard prescriptions for X-ray and cosmic-ray ionizations, as well as the most up-to-date…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Xue-Ning Bai

We perform local, vertically stratified shearing-box MHD simulations of protoplanetary disks (PPDs) at a fiducial radius of 1 AU that take into account the effects of both Ohmic resistivity and ambipolar diffusion (AD). The magnetic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Xue-Ning Bai , James M. Stone

Context. Gas in protoplanetary disks mostly cools via thermal accommodation with dust particles. Thermal relaxation is thus highly sensitive to the local dust size distributions and the spatial distribution of the grains. So far, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-26 Thomas Pfeil , Til Birnstiel , Hubert Klahr

Turbulence is crucial for protoplanetary disk dynamics, and Vertical Shear Instability (VSI) is a promising mechanism in outer disk regions to generate turbulence. We use Athena++ radiation module to study VSI in full and transition disks,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-12 Shangjia Zhang , Zhaohuan Zhu , Yan-Fei Jiang

We have performed time-dependent numerical simulations of the interstellar medium (ISM) which account for galactic shear and magnetic fields, vertical gravity, and a radiative cooling function for atomic gas. This allows us to study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Robert A. Piontek , Eve C. Ostriker

Theoretical models of the ionization state in protoplanetary disks suggest the existence of large areas with low ionization and weak coupling between the gas and magnetic fields. In this regime hydrodynamical instabilities may become…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Mario Flock , Neal J. Turner , Richard P. Nelson , Wladimir Lyra , Natascha Manger , Hubert Klahr

Protoplanetary disks exhibit a vertical gradient in angular momentum, rendering them susceptible to the Vertical Shear Instability (VSI). The most important condition for the onset of this mechanism is a short timescale of thermal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-18 Thomas Pfeil , Til Birnstiel , Hubert Klahr

A magnetic disc wind is an important mechanism that may be responsible for driving accretion and structure formation in protoplanetary discs. Recent numerical simulations have shown that these winds can take either the traditional…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Philip Kwong Ching Leung , Gordon I. Ogilvie

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

Dust concentration in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) is the first step towards planetesimal formation, a crucial yet highly uncertain stage in planet formation. Although the streaming instability (SI) is widely recognized as a powerful…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Pinghui Huang , Xue-Ning Bai

Context: Recent observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) have shown that the large dust aggregates observed at millimeter wavelengths settle to the midplane into a remarkably thin layer. Aims: We intend to find out if the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 C. P. Dullemond , A. Ziampras , D. Ostertag , C. Dominik

Layered accretion is one of the inevitable ingredients in protoplanetary disks when disk turbulence is excited by magnetorotational instabilities (MRIs). In the accretion, disk surfaces where MRIs fully operate have a high value of disk…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Yasuhiro Hasegawa , Taku Takeuchi

In recent years hydrodynamical (HD) models have become important to describe the gas kinematics in protoplanetary disks, especially in combination with models of photoevaporation and/or magnetic-driven winds. We focus on diagnosing the the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Lizxandra Flores-Rivera , Mario Flock , Ryohei Nakatani

We investigate the linear growth and vertical structure of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in weakly ionised, stratified accretion discs. The magnetic field is initially vertical and dust grains are assumed to have settled towards…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Raquel Salmeron , Mark Wardle

We have investigated evolution of magneto-rotational instability (MRI) in protoplanetary disks that have radially non-uniform magnetic field such that stable and unstable regions coexist initially, and found that a zone in which the disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 M. T. Kato , K. Nakamura , R. Tandokoro , M. Fujimoto , S. Ida

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) occurs when a weak magnetic field destabilises a rotating, electrically conducting fluid with inwardly increasing angular velocity. The MRI is essential to astrophysical disk theory where the shear is…