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We present the latest development of the disk gravitational instability and fragmentation model, originally introduced by us to explain episodic accretion bursts in the early stages of star formation. Using our numerical hydrodynamics model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Eduard I. Vorobyov , Shantanu Basu

As an initial investigation into the long-term evolution of protostellar disks, we explore the conditions required to explain the large outbursts of disk accretion seen in some young stellar objects. We use one-dimensional time-dependent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Zhaohuan Zhu , Lee Hartmann , Charles F. Gammie , Laura G. Book , Jacob B. Simon , Eric Engelhard

Annular substructures serve as ideal venues for planetesimal formation. In this series, we investigate the linear stage of dust growth within rings. The first paper examines the global streaming instability, while this study focuses on the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-01 Can Cui , Konstantin Gerbig , Ya-Ping Li , Ziyan Xu , Rixin Li , Cong Yu , Min-Kai Lin , Feng Yuan

Azimuthally asymmetric structures have been discovered in millimeter continuum emission from many protoplanetary disks. One hypothesis is that they are vortices produced by the Rossby wave instability, for example at edges of planet-opened…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Metea Marr , Ruobing Dong

Recent observations of protostellar cores suggest that most of the material in the protostellar phase is accreted along streamers. Streamers in this context are defined as velocity coherent funnels of denser material potentially connecting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-19 Stefan Heigl , Elena Hoemann , Andreas Burkert

(abridged) We study the nonlinear evolution of the Rossby wave instability in thin disks using global 2D hydrodynamic simulations. The key questions we are addressing in this paper are: (1) What happens when the instability becomes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Li , S. A. Colgate , B. Wendroff , R. Liska

Resonant Drag Instabilities (RDIs) in protoplanetary discs are driven by the aerodynamic back-reaction of dust on gas and occur when the relative dust-gas motion resonate with a wave mode intrinsic to the gas fluid. Axisymmetric models…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-17 Raúl O. Chametla , Yasuhiro Hasegawa , Gennaro D'Angelo

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

Dust growth and its associated dynamics play key roles in the first phase of planet formation in young stellar objects (YSOs). Observations have detected signs of dust growth in very young protoplanetary disks. Furthermore, signs of planet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Yusuke Tsukamoto , Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

The formation and early evolution of protoplanetary disks are governed by a wide variety of physical processes during a gravitational collapse. Observations have begun probing disks in their earliest stages, and have favored the…

The Rossby wave instability (RWI) is a promising mechanism for producing large-scale vortices in protoplanetary discs. The instability operates around a density bump in the disc, and the resulting vortices may facilitate planetesimal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 H. Meheut , C. Yu , D. Lai

It has been consensus that star-disk systems accrete most of their mass and angular momentum during the collapse of a prestellar core, such that the rotational direction of a system is equivalent to the net rotation of the core. Recent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 M. Kuffmeier , J. E. Pineda , D. Segura-Cox , T. Haugbølle

Abridged abstract: For stars to form, material must fall inwards from core scales through the envelope towards the central protostar. The velocity profile around protostars is poorly constrained. 6 Class 0 protostars and one Class I…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 J. C. Mottram , E. F. van Dishoeck , M. Schmalzl , L. E. Kristensen , R. Visser , M. R. Hogerheijde , S. Bruderer

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

Astrophysical disks with localized radial structure, such as protoplanetary disks containing dead zones or gaps due to disk-planet interaction, may be subject to the non-axisymmetric Rossby wave instability (RWI) that lead to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Min-Kai Lin

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

Aims. A new mechanism of dust accumulation and planetesimal formation in a gravitationally unstable disk with suppressed magnetorotational instability is studied and compared with the classical dead zone in a layered disk model. Methods. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 Eduard I. Vorobyov , Aleksandr M. Skliarevskii , Manuel Guedel , Tamara Molyarova

Previous observations of B335 have presented evidence of ongoing infall in various molecular lines, e.g., HCO$^+$, HCN, CO. There have been no confirmed observations of a rotationally supported disk on scales greater than ~12~au. The…

In this paper we present the global baroclinic instability as a source for vigorous turbulence leading to angular momentum transport in Keplerian accretion disks. We show by analytical considerations and three-dimensional radiation hydro…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hubert Klahr , Peter Bodenheimer

We investigate the role of mass infall in the formation and evolution of protostars. To avoid ad hoc initial and boundary conditions, we consider the infall resulting self-consistently from modeling the formation of stellar clusters in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Paolo Padoan , Troels Haugbølle , Åke Nordlund