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We use resistive magnetohydrodynamical simulations with the nested grid technique to study the formation of protoplanetary disks around protostars from molecular cloud cores that provide the realistic environments for planet formation. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Masahiro N. Machida , Tomoaki Matsumoto

Irradiation from the central star controls the temperature structure in protoplanetary discs. Yet simulations of gravitational instability typically use models of stellar irradiation with varying complexity, or ignore it altogether,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-18 Sahl Rowther , Daniel J. Price , Christophe Pinte , Rebecca Nealon , Farzana Meru , Richard Alexander

Protoplanetary disks form through angular momentum conservation in collapsing dense cores. In this work, we perform the first simulations with a maximal resolution down to the astronomical unit (au) of protoplanetary disk formation, through…

We explore dust flow in the hottest parts of protoplanetary discs using the forces of gravity, gas drag and radiation pressure. Our main focus is on the optically thin regions of dusty disc, where the dust is exposed to the most extreme…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Dejan Vinković , Miljenko Čemeljić

We study the three-dimensional evolution of a viscous protoplanetary disc which accretes gas material from a second protoplanetary disc during a close encounter in an embedded star cluster. The aim is to investigate the capability of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 M. Xiang-Gruess , P. Kroupa

Gravitational instability is one of considerable mechanisms to explain the formation of giant planets. We study the gravitational stability for the protoplanetary disks around a protostar. The temperature and Toomre's Q-value are calculated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-18 Shigeo S. Kimura , Toru Tsuribe

We investigate how the detectability of signatures of self-gravity in a protoplanetary disc depends on its temporal evolution. We run a one-dimensional model for secular timescales to follow the disc mass as a function of time. We then…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-11 Cassandra Hall , Ruobing Dong , Ken Rice , Tim J. Harries , Joan Najita , Richard Alexander , Sean Brittain

Context. Protoplanetary discs are formed due to the fragmentation and collapse of giant molecular cloud cores. The physical properties and structure of a formed disc are of great importance when studying the onset of planet formation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 A. Anyiszonyan , Zs. Sándor

We study the dependence of protoplanetary disk evolution on stellar mass using a large sample of young stellar objects in nearby young star-forming regions. We update the protoplanetary disk fractions presented in our recent work (paper I…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Álvaro Ribas , Hervé Bouy , Bruno Merín

Discs of gas and dust surrounding young stars are the birthplace of planets. However, direct detection of protoplanets forming within discs has proved elusive to date. We present the detection of a large, localized deviation from Keplerian…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 C. Pinte , D. J. Price , F. Menard , G. Duchene , W. R. F. Dent , T. Hill , I. de Gregorio-Monsalvo , A. Hales , D. Mentiplay

Precise estimates of protostellar masses are crucial to characterize the formation of stars of low masses down to brown-dwarfs (BDs; M* < 0.08 Msun). The most accurate estimation of protostellar mass uses the Keplerian rotation in the…

While most protoplanetary discs lose their gas within less than 10 Myr, individual disc lifetimes vary from < 1 Myr to >> 20 Myr, with some discs existing for > 40 Myr. Mean disc half lifetimes hide this diversity; only a so-far…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Susanne Pfalzner , Furkan Dincer

We present the analysis of the properties of large samples of protostellar discs formed in four radiation hydrodynamical simulations of star cluster formation. The four calculations have metallicities of 0.01, 0.1, 1 and 3 times solar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-13 Daniel Elsender , Matthew R. Bate

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

[Abridged] The study of disc kinematics has recently opened up as a promising method to detect unseen planets. However, a systematic, statistically meaningful analysis of such an approach remains missing. The aim of this work is to devise…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-29 Andres F. Izquierdo , Leonardo Testi , Stefano Facchini , Giovanni P. Rosotti , Ewine F. van Dishoeck

Millimeter emitting dust grains have sizes that make them susceptible to drift in protoplanetary disks due to a difference between their orbital speed and that of the gas. The characteristic drift timescale depends on the surface density of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Jonathan P. Williams , Caleb Painter , Alexa R. Anderson , Alvaro Ribas

Understanding the origin of accretion and dispersal of protoplanetary disks is fundamental for investigating planet formation. Recent numerical simulations show that launching winds are unavoidable when disks undergo magnetically driven…

Many protoplanetary disks exhibit annular gaps in dust emission, which may be produced by planets. Simulations of planet-disk interaction aimed at interpreting these observations often treat the disk thermodynamics in an overly simplified…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Ryan Miranda , Roman R. Rafikov

Recent observations of gaps and non-axisymmetric features in the dust distributions of transition disks have been interpreted as evidence of embedded massive protoplanets. However, comparing the predictions of planet-disk interaction models…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Alexander J. W. Richert , Wladimir Lyra , Aaron Boley , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Neal Turner

The mass of solids in a young circumstellar disc may be the key factor in its efficiency in building planetesimals and planetary cores, and dust observed around young T Tauri and Herbig Ae stars can be used as a proxy for this initial solid…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. S. Greaves