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The streaming instability is often invoked as solution to the fragmentation and drift barriers in planetesimal formation, catalyzing the aggregation of dust on kyr timescales to grow km-sized cores. However there remains a lack of consensus…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Barbara Ercolano , Jeff Jennings , Giovanni Rosotti , Tilmann Birnstiel

Dust substructures observed in protoplanetary disks are commonly attributed to embedded planets; however, intrinsic gas-dust interactions can also generate complex morphologies. We performed two-dimensional, axisymmetric simulations of gas…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Jiaqing Bi , Mario Flock , Dominik Ostertag , Neele Lüttkemöller , Sebastian Wolf

Recent years have seen growing interest in the streaming instability as a candidate mechanism to produce planetesimals. However, these investigations have been limited to small-scale simulations. We now present the results of a global…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Daniel Carrera , Uma Gorti , Anders Johansen , Melvyn B. Davies

The formation of planetesimals via the streaming instability (SI) is a crucial step in planet formation, yet its triggering conditions and efficiency are highly sensitive to both disk properties and specific evolutionary processes. We aim…

Recent numerical simulations have revealed that dust clumping and planetesimal formation likely proceed in ring-like disc substructures, where dust gets trapped in weakly turbulent pressure maxima. The streaming instability has difficulty…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-28 Hanpu Liu , Xue-Ning Bai

The core accretion scenario of planet formation assumes that planetesimals and planetary embryos are formed during the primordial, gaseous phases of the protoplanetary disk. However, how the dust particles overcome the traditional growth…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-20 Zsolt Regaly , Kundan Kadam , Cornelis P. Dullemond

The coagulation of dust particles is a key process in planetesimal formation. However, the radial drift and bouncing barriers are not completely resolved, especially for silicate dust. Since the collision velocities of dust particles are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Takashi Ishihara , Naoki Kobayashi , Kei Enohata , Masayuki Umemura , Kenji Shiraishi

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 Goldreich and Ward (1973) (axisymmetric) gravitational instability of a razor thin particle layer occurs when the Toomre parameter $Q_T \equiv c_p \Omega_0 / \pi G \Sigma_p < 1$ ($c_p$ being the particle dispersion velocity).…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-03 Karim Shariff , Jeffrey N. Cuzzi

Stellar flybys are likely to be common in young star-forming regions and could be responsible for substructures observed in protoplanetary discs. Using three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations, we study dust trapping in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Vasundhara R. Prasad , Cristiano Longarini , Cathie J. Clarke

Turbulence in protoplanetary disks affects dust evolution and planetesimal formation. The vertical shear instability (VSI) is one of the candidate turbulence-driving mechanisms in the outer disk region. Since the VSI requires rapid gas…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yuya Fukuhara , Mario Flock , Satoshi Okuzumi , Ryosuke T. Tominaga

The rapid depletion of dust particles in protoplanetary disks limits the time available for planetesimal formation, as solids are typically accreted onto the central star before dust particles can undergo substantial growth. Dust traps…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 D. Tarczay-Nehéz

We investigate the formation process of planetesimals from the dust layer by the gravitational instability in the gas disk using local $N$-body simulations. The gas is modeled as a background laminar flow. We study the formation process of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Shugo Michikoshi , Eiichiro Kokubo , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

High spatial resolution observations of protoplanetary disks (PPDs) by ALMA have revealed many details that are providing interesting constraints on the disk physics as well as dust dynamics, both of which are essential for understanding…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Pinghui Huang , Hui Li , Andrea Isella , Ryan Miranda , Shengtai Li , Jianghui Ji

Turbulence in protoplanetary disks affects planet formation in many ways. While small dust particles are mainly affected by the aerodynamical coupling with turbulent gas velocity fields, planetesimals and larger bodies are more affected by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Satoshi Okuzumi , Chris W. Ormel

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

Gas and dust in inclined orbits around binaries experience precession induced by the binary gravitational torque. The difference in precession between gas and dust alters the radial drift of weakly coupled dust and leads to density…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Hossam Aly , Jean-François Gonzalez , Rebecca Nealon , Cristiano Longarini , Giuseppe Lodato , Daniel J. Price

We investigate the simultaneous evolution of dust and gas density profiles at a radial pressure bump located in a protoplanetary disk. If dust particles are treated as test particles, a radial pressure bump traps dust particles that drift…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Tetsuo Taki , Masaki Fujimoto , Shigeru Ida

The formation of planetesimals via gravitational instability of the dust layer in a protoplanetary disks demands that there be local patches where dust is concentrated by a factor of $\sim$ a few $\times 10^3$ over the background value.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Philip Chang , Jeffrey S. Oishi

We consider the dynamics of porous icy dust aggregates in a turbulent gas disk and investigate the stability of the disk. We evaluate the random velocity of porous dust aggregates by considering their self-gravity, collisions, aerodynamic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Shugo Michikoshi , Eiichiro Kokubo