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Accretion discs properties should deviate from standard theory when magnetic pressure exceeds the thermal pressure. To quantify these deviations, we present a systematic study of the dynamical properties of magnetically arrested discs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-26 Nicolas Scepi , Mitchell C. Begelman , Jason Dexter

MHD winds can emanate from both stars and surrounding accretion disks. It is of interest to know how much wind power is available and which (if either) of the two rotators dominates that power. We investigate this in the context of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric G. Blackman , Adam Frank , Carl Welch

The assembly and architecture of planetary systems strongly depend on the physical processes governing the evolution and dispersal of protoplanetary disks. Since Protostars and Planets VI, new observations and theoretical insights favor…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-21 Ilaria Pascucci , Sylvie Cabrit , Suzan Edwards , Uma Gorti , Oliver Gressel , Takeru Suzuki

Understanding the complex evolution of protoplanetary disks (PPDs) and their dispersal via energetic stellar radiation are prominent challenges in astrophysics. It has recently been established that specifically the X-ray luminosity from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Eleftheria Sarafidou , Oliver Gressel , Giovanni Picogna , Barbara Ercolano

Magnetized winds may be important in dispersing protoplanetary disks and influencing planet formation. We carry out global full magnetohydrodynamic simulations in axisymmetry, coupled with ray-tracing radiative transfer, consistent…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Lile Wang , Xue-Ning Bai , Jeremy Goodman

The mechanisms of angular momentum transport and level of turbulence in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) are crucial for understanding many aspects of planet formation. In the recent years, it has been realized that the magneto-rotational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Can Cui , Xue-Ning Bai

The traditional paradigm of viscosity-dominated evolution of protoplanetary discs has been recently challenged by magnetized disc winds. However, distinguishing wind-driven and turbulence-driven accretion through observations has been…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-30 Yinhao Wu , Yi-Xian Chen , Haochang Jiang , Ruobing Dong , Enrique Macías , Min-Kai Lin , Giovanni P. Rosotti , Vardan Elbakyan

We developed a one-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation code to investigate the long-term evolution of protoplanetary disks with low computational cost. In this simulation code, the physical processes necessary for protostellar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-11 Yudai Kobayashi , Daisuke Takaishi , Yusuke Tsukamoto , Shantanu Basu

By performing local three-dimensional MHD simulations of stratified accretion disks, we investigate disk winds driven by MHD turbulence. Initially given weak vertical magnetic fields are effectively amplified by magnetorotational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. K. Suzuki , S. Inutsuka

How protoplanetary discs evolve remains an unanswered question. Competing theories of viscosity and magnetohydrodynamic disc winds have been put forward as the drivers of angular momentum transport in protoplanetary discs. These two models…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-08 Gavin A. L. Coleman , Joseph K. Mroueh , Thomas J. Haworth

We report new global ideal MHD simulations for thin accretion disks (with thermal scale height H/R=0.1 and 0.05) threaded by net vertical magnetic fields. Our computations span three orders of magnitude in radius, extend all the way to the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Zhaohuan Zhu , James M. Stone

We perform a series of 3D simulations to study the accretion of giant planet embedded in protoplanetary discs (PPDs) over gap-opening timescales. We find that the accretion mass flux mainly comes from the intermediate latitude above the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-05 Ya-Ping Li , Yi-Xian Chen , Douglas N. C. Lin

Winds are commonly observed in luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs). A plausible model of those winds is magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) disc winds. In the case of disc winds from a thin accretion disc, isothermal or adiabatic assumption is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Weixiao Wang , De-Fu Bu , Feng Yuan

We study the 2-D, time-dependent hydrodynamics of radiation-driven winds from luminous accretion disks threaded by a strong, large-scale, ordered magnetic field. The radiation force is due to spectral lines and is calculated using a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Proga

We perform a population synthesis of protoplanetary discs including infall with a total of $50\,000$ simulations using a 1D vertically integrated viscous evolution code, studying a large parameter space in final stellar mass. Initial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 O. Schib , C. Mordasini , N. Wenger , G. -D. Marleau , R. Helled

An analytic model is developed for the erosion of protoplanetary gas discs by high velocity magnetized stellar winds. The winds are centrifugally driven from the surface of rapidly rotating, strongly magnetized young stars. The presence of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Neesha R. Schnepf , Richard V. E. Lovelace , Marina Romanova , Vladimir Airapetian

The driving mechanism of massive outflows observed in high-mass star-forming regions is investigated using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and protostellar evolution calculations. In our previous paper, we showed that the mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Yuko Matsushita , Yuya Sakurai , Takashi Hosokawa , Masahiro N. Machida

Disc winds and planet-disc interactions are two crucial mechanisms that define the structure, evolution and dispersal of protoplanetary discs. While winds are capable of removing material from discs, eventually leading to their dispersal,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 Michael L. Weber , Giovanni Picogna , Barbara Ercolano

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

We conduct simulations of the inner regions of protoplanetary disks (PPDs) to investigate the effects of protostellar magnetic fields on their long-term evolution. We use an inner boundary model that incorporates the influence of a stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 D. Steiner , L. Gehrig , B. W. Ratschiner , F. Ragossnig , E. I. Vorobyov , M. Güdel , E. A. Dorfi