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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

We study the two-dimensional, time-dependent MHD of radiation-driven winds from luminous accretion disks initially threaded by a purely axial magnetic field. The radiation force is mediated primarily by spectral lines. We use ideal MHD to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Proga

Planets open deep gaps in protoplanetary discs when their mass exceeds a gap opening mass, $M_{\rm gap}$. We use one- and two-dimensional simulations to study planet gap opening in discs with angular momentum transport powered by MHD disc…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Vardan Elbakyan , Yinhao Wu , Sergei Nayakshin , Giovanni Rosotti

The gas dynamics of weakly ionized protoplanetary disks (PPDs) is largely governed by the coupling between gas and magnetic fields, described by three non-ideal magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) effects (Ohmic, Hall, ambipolar). Previous local…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Xue-Ning Bai

Context. Protoplanetary discs are the birthplaces of planets. Recent studies highlight the role of stellar mass sampling in determining disc lifetimes from the observed fraction of stars with discs. Low-mass stars tend to host longer-lived…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Jose L. Gomez , Octavio M. Guilera , Marcelo M. Miller Bertolami , Elisa Castro-Martínez , María Paula Ronco

It has recently been shown that the inner region of protoplanetary disks (PPDs) is governed by wind-driven accretion, and the resulting accretion flow showing complex vertical profiles. Such complex flow structures are further enhanced due…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Zitao Hu , Xue-Ning Bai

We present the first-ever simulations of non-ideal magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) stellar magnetospheric winds coupled with disc-driven jets where the resistive and viscous accretion disc is self-consistently described. These innovative MHD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-19 Z. Meliani , F. Casse , C. Sauty

In this paper, we compare simple viscous diffusion models for the disc evolution with the results of recent surveys of the properties of young protoplanetary discs. We introduce the useful concept of `disc isochrones' in the accretion rate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Giuseppe Lodato , Chiara E. Scardoni , Carlo F. Manara , Leonardo Testi

Observations indicate that stars generally lose their protoplanetary discs on a timescale of about 5 Myr. Which mechanisms are responsible for the disc dissipation is still debated. Here we investigate the movement through an ambient medium…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 T. P. G. Wijnen , O. R. Pols , F. I. Pelupessy , S. Portegies Zwart

It is still unclear whether the evolution of protoplanetary disks, a key ingredient in the theory of planet formation, is driven by viscous turbulence or magnetic disk winds. As viscously evolving disks expand outward over time, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Leon Trapman , Benoit Tabone , Giovanni Rosotti , Ke Zhang

Understanding the origin of accretion and dispersal of protoplanetary disks is fundamental for investigating planet formation. Recent numerical simulations show that launching winds are unavoidable when disks undergo magnetically driven…

The evolution of an accretion disk can be influenced significantly by the deposition of mass and angular momentum by an infalling Bondi-Hoyle wind. Such a mass influx impacts the long-term behavior of the disk by providing additional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Heino Falcke , Fulvio Melia

Interacting binaries are of general interest as laboratories for investigating the physics of accretion, which gives rise to the bulk of high-energy radiation in the Galaxy. They allow us to probe stellar evolution processes that cannot be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-22 Sophie Lund Schrøder , Morgan MacLeod , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Ilya Mandel , Tassos Fragos , Abraham Loeb , Rosa Wallace Everson

The evolution of protoplanetary discs is a function of their internal processes and of their environment. It is unclear if angular momentum is mainly removed viscously or by magnetic winds, or by a combination of the two. While external…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Gabriele Pichierri , Giovanni Rosotti , Rossella Anania , Giuseppe Lodato

Protoplanetary disks are believed to evolve on Myr timescales in a diffusive (viscous) manner as a result of angular momentum transport driven by internal stresses. Here we use a sample of 26 protoplanetary disks resolved by ALMA with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Roman R. Rafikov

Protoplanetary discs (PPDs) are cold, dense and weakly ionised environments that witness the planetary formation. Among these discs, transition discs (TDs) are characterised by a wide cavity in the dust and gas distribution. Despite this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-02 Étienne Martel , Geoffroy Lesur

Giant planets embedded in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) can create annulus density gaps around their orbits in the type-II regime, potentially responsible for the ubiquity of annular substructures observed in PPDs. Despite of substantial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-23 Yuhiko Aoyama , Xuening Bai

The evolution of a large-scale poloidal magnetic field in an accretion disc is an important problem because it determines the launching of winds and the feasibility of the magnetorotational instability to generate turbulence or channel…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Philip K. C. Leung , Gordon I. Ogilvie

According to the standard thin disc theory, it is predicted that the radiation-pressure-dominated inner region of a thin disc is thermally unstable, while observations suggest that it is common for a thin disc of more than 0.01 Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-25 Yu Zhao , Xiao-Hong Yang , Li Xue , Shuang-Liang Li

The conventional accretion disk lore is that magnetized turbulence is the principal angular momentum transport process that drives accretion. However, when dynamically important large-scale magnetic fields thread an accretion disk, they can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 Vikram Manikantan , Nicholas Kaaz , Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , Gibwa Musoke , Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy