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Protoplanetary disks are dispersed by viscous evolution and photoevaporation in a few million years; in the interim small, sub-micron sized dust grains must grow and form planets. The time-varying abundance of small grains in an evolving…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Uma Gorti , David Hollenbach , Cornelis Dullemond

Knowing the masses and sizes of protoplanetary disks is of fundamental importance for the contemporary theories of planet formation. However, their measurements are associated with large uncertainties. In this proof of concept study, we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Eduard I. Vorobyov , Aleksandr Skliarevskii , Vardan Elbakyan , Michael Dunham , Manuel Guedel

More than a decade of dedicated experimental work on the collisional physics of protoplanetary dust has brought us to a point at which the growth of dust aggregates can - for the first time - be self-consistently and reliably modelled. In…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jürgen Blum

In our previous study (Tsukamoto {\it et al.} 2023), we investigated formation and early evolution of protoplanetary disks with 3D non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics simulations considering dust growth, and found that the modified equations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Yusuke Tsukamoto

The crucial initial step in planet formation is the agglomeration of micron-sized dust into macroscopic aggregates. This phase is likely to happen very early during the protostellar disc formation, which is characterised by active gas…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Vitaly Akimkin , Eduard Vorobyov , Yaroslav Pavlyuchenkov , Olga Stoyanovskaya

Context: In protoplanetary discs, micron-sized dust grows to form millimetre- to centimetre-sized pebbles but encounters several barriers during its evolution. Collisional fragmentation and radial drift impede further dust growth to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Stéphane Michoulier , Jean-François Gonzalez , Daniel J. Price

I review the processes that shape the evolution of protoplanetary discs around young, solar-mass stars. I first discuss observations of protoplanetary discs, and note in particular the constraints these observations place on models of disc…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Richard Alexander

Aims: We investigate the behaviour of dust in protoplanetary disks under the action of gas drag in the presence of a planet. Our goal is twofold: to determine the spatial distribution of dust depending on grain size and planet mass, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Fouchet , S. T. Maddison , J. -F. Gonzalez , J. R. Murray

We study the dynamics and growth of dust particles in circumstellar disks of different masses that are prone to gravitational instability during the critical first Myr of their evolution. The dust component is made up of two different…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Vardan G. Elbakyan , Anders Johansen , Michiel Lambrechts , Vitaly Akimkin , Eduard I. Vorobyov

A clear understanding of the chemical processing of matter, as it is transferred from a molecular cloud to a planetary system, depends heavily on knowledge of the physical conditions endured by gas and dust as these accrete onto a disk and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David W. Koerner

Recent surveys of protoplanetary disks show that substructure in dust thermal continuum emission maps is common in protoplanetary disks. These substructures, most prominently rings and gaps, shape and change the chemical and physical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-17 Felipe Alarcon , Richard Teague , Ke Zhang , Edwin Bergin , Marcelo Barraza-Alfaro

We propose a new evolutionary process of protoplanetary disks "co-evolution of dust grains and protoplanetary disks", revealed by dust-gas two-fluid non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics simulations considering the growth of dust and associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Yusuke Tsukamoto , Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We discuss the results of laboratory measurements and theoretical models concerning the aggregation of dust in protoplanetary disks, as the initial step toward planet formation. Small particles easily stick when they collide and form…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Dominik , J. Blum , J. Cuzzi , G. Wurm

The connection between the nature of a protoplanetary disk and that of a debris disk is not well understood. Dust evolution, planet formation, and disk dissipation likely play a role in the processes involved. We aim to reconcile both…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Arnaud Michel , Nienke van der Marel , Brenda Matthews

We investigate the behaviour of dust in protoplanetary disks under the action of gas drag using our 3D, two-fluid (gas+dust) SPH code. We present the evolution of the dust spatial distribution in global simulations of planetless disks as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jean-François Gonzalez , Laure Fouchet , Sarah T. Maddison , Guillaume Laibe

Radially compact protoplanetary discs (<=50 au) are ubiquitous in nearby star-forming regions. Multiple mechanisms have been invoked to interpret various compact discs. In this paper, we propose that fragmentation of fragile dust grains in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Simin Tong , Richard Alexander

Mineralogical studies of silicate features emitted by dust grains in protoplanetary disks and Solar System bodies can shed light on the progress of planet formation. The significant fraction of crystalline material in comets, chondritic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Isa Oliveira , Johan Olofsson , Klaus M. Pontoppidan , Ewine F. van Dishoeck , Jean-Charles Augereau , Bruno Merin

This review introduces physical processes in protoplanetary disks relevant to accretion and the initial stages of planet formation. After a brief overview of the observational context, I introduce the elementary theory of disk structure and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-04 Philip J. Armitage

We present the first 2D hydrodynamical finite volume simulations in which dust is fully coupled with the gas, including its back-reaction onto it, and at the same time the dust size is evolving according to coagulation and fragmentation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-17 Tomas Tamfal , Joanna Drazkowska , Lucio Mayer , Clément Surville

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