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Protoplanetary discs form and evolve in a wide variety of stellar environments and are accordingly exposed to a wide range of ambient far ultraviolet (FUV) field strengths. Strong FUV fields are known to drive vigorous gaseous flows from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-19 Andrew D. Sellek , Richard A. Booth , Cathie J. Clarke

We present a study of the evolution of the inner few astronomical units of protoplanetary disks around low-mass stars. We consider nearby stellar groups with ages spanning from 1 to 11 Myr, distributed into four age bins. Combining…

The expectation that aerodynamic drag will force the solids in a gas-rich protoplanetary disk to spiral in toward the host star on short timescales is one of the fundamental problems in planet formation theory. The nominal efficiency of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Tilman Birnstiel , Sean M. Andrews

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

Recent observations have uncovered a correlation between the accretion rates (measured from the UV continuum excess) of protoplanetary discs and their masses inferred from observations of the sub-mm continuum. While viscous evolution models…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Andrew D. Sellek , Richard A. Booth , Cathie J. Clarke

Recent observations of protoplanetary discs reveal disc substructures potentially caused by embedded planets. We investigate how the gas surface density in discs changes the observed morphology in scattered light and dust continuum…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 B. Veronesi , G. Lodato , G. Dipierro , E. Ragusa , C. Hall , D. J. Price

Observational data on the dust content of circumstellar disks show that the median dust content in disks around pre-main sequence stars in nearby star forming regions seem to increase from about 1 Myr to about 2 Myr, and then decline with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-01 Lia Marta Bernabò , Diego Turrini , Leonardo Testi , Francesco Marzari , Danai Polychroni

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

How substructures and disk properties affect dust evolution and the delivery of solids and volatiles into planet-forming regions remains an open question. We present results from tailored dust evolution modeling of the AGE-PRO ALMA large…

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

Aims. Dust plays a crucial role in the evolution of protoplanetary disks. We study the dynamics and growth of initially sub-$\mu m$ dust particles in self-gravitating young protoplanetary disks with various strengths of turbulent viscosity.…

Protoplanetary discs are crucial to understanding how planets form and evolve, but these objects are subject to the vagaries of the birth environments of their host stars. In particular, photoionising radiation from massive stars has been…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Bridget Marchington , Richard J. Parker

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

In the context of planet formation, growth from micron-sized grains to kilometer-sized planetesimals is a crucial question. Since the dust growth rate depends on the amount of dust, realizing planet formation scenarios based on dust growth…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Ryoki Matsukoba , Eduard I. Vorobyov , Takashi Hosokawa

The presence of distant protoplanets may explain the observed gaps in the dust emission of protoplanetary disks. Here, we derive a novel analytical model to describe the temporal decay of the pebble flux through a protoplanetary disk as the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-07 Nerea Gurrutxaga , Anders Johansen , Michiel Lambrechts , Johan Appelgren

Protoplanetary discs exhibit a diversity of gaps and rings of dust material, believed to be a manifestation of pressure maxima commonly associated with an ongoing planet formation and several other physical processes. Hydrodynamic disc…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-18 Geoffrey Andama , Nelson Ndugu , Simon . K. Anguma , Edward Jurua

Planet formation via core accretion involves the growth of solids that can accumulate to form planetary cores. There are a number of barriers to the collisional growth of solids in protostellar discs, one of which is the drift, or metre,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-02 Ken Rice , Hans Baehr , Alison K Young , Richard Booth , Sahl Rowther , Farzana Meru , Cassandra Hall , Adam Koval

The frequency of discs around young stars, a key parameter for understanding planet formation, is most readily determined in young stellar clusters where many relatively coeval stars are located in close proximity. Observational studies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Susanne Pfalzner , Manuel Steinhausen , Karl Menten

While the population of main sequence debris discs is well constrained, little is known about debris discs around evolved stars. This paper provides a theoretical framework considering the effects of stellar evolution on debris discs,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Bonsor , M. C. Wyatt

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