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Interstellar dust is an important component of the galactic ecosystem, playing a key role in multiple galaxy formation processes. We present a novel numerical framework for the dynamics and size evolution of dust grains implemented in the…

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Planet formation in the discs around young stars involves the coagulation of sub-micron sized dust grains into much larger grains that may be mixed by turbulence and migrate through the disc. In this paper, we describe how we have combined…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Matthew R. Bate , Mark A. Hutchison , Daniel Elsender

By carrying out two-dimensional two-fluid global simulations, we have studied the response of dust to gap formation by a single planet in the gaseous component of a protoplanetary disk - the so-called "dust filtration" mechanism. We have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Zhaohuan Zhu , Richard P. Nelson , Ruobing Dong , Catherine Espaillat , Lee Hartmann

Protoplanetary disks are the sites of planet formation, and the evolution and eventual dispersal of these disks strongly influences the formation of planetary systems. Disk evolution during the planet-forming epoch is driven by accretion…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Richard Alexander , Ilaria Pascucci , Sean Andrews , Philip Armitage , Lucas Cieza

Context. Rotational instability of rubble-pile asteroids can trigger mass shedding, forming transient debris clouds that may provide the initial conditions for secondary formation in binary systems. Aims. We investigate the dynamical and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Yutian Wu , Xiaojing Zhang , Chenyang Huang , Yang Yu

Millimeter astronomy provides valuable information on the birthplaces of planetary systems. In order to compare theoretical models with observations, the dust component has to be carefully calculated. Here, we aim to study the effects of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Remo Burn , Alexandre Emsenhuber , Jesse Weder , Oliver Völkel , Hubert Klahr , Til Birnstiel , Barbara Ercolano , Christoph Mordasini

MHD turbulence plays a crucial role in the dust dynamics of protoplanetary discs. It affects planet formation, vertical settling and is one possible origin of the large scale axisymmetric structures, such as rings, recently imaged by ALMA…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-03 A. Riols , G. Lesur

Gaps in protoplanetary disks have long been hailed as signposts of planet formation. However, a direct link between exoplanets and disks remains hard to identify. We present a large sample study of ALMA disk surveys of nearby star-forming…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Nienke van der Marel , Gijs Mulders

The formation and early evolution of low mass young stellar objects (YSOs) are investigated using three-dimensional non-ideal magneto-hydrodynamics simulations. We investigate the evolution of YSOs up to ~ 10^4 yr after protostar formation,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Y. Tsukamoto , M. N. Machida , H. Susa , H. Nomura , S. Inutsuka

Aerodynamic theory predicts that dust grains in protoplanetary disks will drift radially inward on comparatively short timescales. In this context, it has long been known that the presence of a gap opened by a planet can alter the dust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Philipp Weber , Pablo Benítez-Llambay , Oliver Gressel , Leonardo Krapp , Martin E. Pessah

In a series of papers, we present a comprehensive analytic study of the global motion of growing dust grains in protoplanetary discs, addressing both the radial drift and the vertical settling of the particles. Here we study how the radial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Guillaume Laibe , Jean-François Gonzalez , Sarah T. Maddison

Tidal interactions between the embedded planets and their surrounding protoplanetary disks are often postulated to produce the observed complex dust substructures, including rings, gaps, and asymmetries. In this Letter, we explore the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 JT Laune , Hui Li , Shengtai Li , Ya-Ping Li , Levi G. Walls , Tilman Birnstiel , Joanna Drazkowska , Sebastian Stammler

Dust plays a key role in the formation of planets and its emission also provides one of our most accessible views of protoplanetary discs. If set by radiative equilibrium with the central star, the temperature of dust in the disc plateaus…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 T. J. Haworth

Spatial distribution and growth of dust in a clumpy protoplanetary disk subject to vigorous gravitational instability and fragmentation is studied numerically with sub-au resolution using the FEOSAD code. Hydrodynamics equations describing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Eduard I. Vorobyov , Vardan G. Elbakyan

Planet migration in protoplanetary discs plays an important role in the longer term evolution of planetary systems, yet we currently have no direct observational test to determine if a planet is migrating in its gaseous disc. We explore the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Farzana Meru , Giovanni P. Rosotti , Richard A. Booth , Pooneh Nazari , Cathie J. Clarke

ALMA observations of protoplanetary disks confirm earlier indications that there is a clear difference between the dust and gas radial extents. The origin of this difference is still debated, with both radial drift of the dust and optical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 Stefano Facchini , Til Birnstiel , Simon Bruderer , Ewine F. van Dishoeck

The pairwise collisional growth of dust aggregates consisting submicron-sized grains is the first step of the planet formation, and understanding the collisional behavior of dust aggregates is therefore essential. It is known that the main…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Sota Arakawa , Hidekazu Tanaka , Eiichiro Kokubo

Dust-grain growth and settling are the first steps towards planet formation. An understanding of dust physics is therefore integral to a complete theory of the planet formation process. In this paper, we explore the possibility of using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. Tannirkulam , T. J. Harries , J. D. Monnier

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

This tutorial is an introduction to observational studies of dust transport and evolution in protoplanetary disks. Spatially resolved observations of disks at multiple wavelengths can allow to infer the distribution of various dust grains…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Marion Villenave