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Various instabilities have been proposed as a promising mechanism to accumulate dust. Moreover, some of them are expected to lead to the multiple-ring structure formation and the planetesimal formation in protoplanetary disks. In a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Ryosuke T. Tominaga , Sanemichi Z. Takahashi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

In order to explain grain growth to mm sized particles and their retention in outer regions of protoplanetary disks, as it is observed at sub-mm and mm wavelengths, we investigate if strong inhomogeneities in the gas density profiles can…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-14 P. Pinilla , T. Birnstiel , L. Ricci , C. P. Dullemond , A. L. Uribe , L. Testi , A. Natta

The size distribution of asteroids and Kuiper belt objects in the solar system is difficult to reconcile with a bottom-up formation scenario due to the observed scarcity of objects smaller than $\sim$100 km in size. Instead, planetesimals…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Daniel Carrera , Anders Johansen , Melvyn B. Davies

The interaction between gas and dust in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) plays a crucial role in setting the stage of planet formation. In particular, the streaming instability (SI) is well recognized as the mechanism for planetesimal formation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-25 Pinghui Huang , Xue-Ning Bai

High-resolution ALMA observations have revealed asymmetric dust crescents in several protoplanetary disks, suggesting efficient dust trapping mechanisms potentially linked to gas vortices. While such features have been associated with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Lizxandra Flores-Rivera , Natascha Manger , Michiel Lambrechts , Mario Flock , Sebastian Lorek , Anders Johansen , Hubert Klahr

Transition disks have dust-depleted inner regions and may represent an intermediate step of an on-going disk dispersal process, where planet formation is probably in progress. Recent millimetre observations of transition disks reveal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-19 P. Pinilla , M. de Juan Ovelar , S. Ataiee , M. Benisty , T. Birnstiel , E. F. van Dishoeck , M. Min

The streaming instability is a promising mechanism to overcome the barriers in direct dust growth and lead to the formation of planetesimals. Most previous studies of the streaming instability, however, were focused on a local region of a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Chao-Chin Yang , Anders Johansen

Clumping by streaming instability (SI) leading to gravitational collapse is the leading proposed mechanism for forming planetesimals, the building blocks of terrestrial planets and giant-planet cores. The critical dust-to-gas density ratio…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Linn E. J. Eriksson , Ziyan Xu , Jeonghoon Lim , Chao-Chin Yang , Pinghui Huang , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

The streaming instability for solid particles in protoplanetary disks is re-examined assuming the familiar alpha ($\alpha$) model for isotropic turbulence. Turbulence always reduces the growth rates of the streaming instability relative to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-26 Orkan. M. Umurhan , Paul. R. Estrada , Jeffrey N. Cuzzi

(Abridged) In this paper we have used the RIEMANN code for computational astrophysics to study the interaction of a realistic distribution of dust grains with gas in a vertically stratified protostellar accretion disc. The disc was modeled…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dinshaw S. Balsara , David A. Tilley , Terrence Rettig , Sean A. Brittain

Context: The radial drift and fragmentation of small dust grains in protoplanetary discs impedes their growth past centimetre sizes. Several mechanisms have been proposed to overcome these planet formation barriers, such as dust porosity or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Jean-François Gonzalez , Stéphane Michoulier

Dust growth from micron- to planet-size in protoplanetary discs involves multiple physical processes, including dust collisions, the streaming instability, and pebble accretion. Disc turbulence and dust fragility matter at almost every…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Simin Tong , Richard Alexander , Giovanni Rosotti

Substructures are ubiquitous in high resolution (sub-)millimeter continuum observations of circumstellar disks. They are possibly caused by forming planets embedded in the disk. To investigate the relation between observed substructures and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-19 Fabian Binkert , Judit Szulágyi , Til Birnstiel

Context. Particle trapping in local or global pressure maxima in protoplanetary disks is one of the new paradigms in the theory of the first stages of planet formation. However, finding observational evidence for this effect is not easy.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 T. Birnstiel , C. P. Dullemond , P. Pinilla

The streaming instability (SI) is a leading candidate for planetesimal formation, which can concentrate solids through two-way aerodynamic interactions with the gas. The resulting concentrations can become sufficiently dense to collapse…

Streaming Instability (SI) in dust has long been thought to be a promising process in triggering planetesimal formation in the protoplanetary disks (PPDs). In this study, we present the first numerical investigation that models the SI in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Ka Wai Ho , Hui Li , Shengtai Li

We present simulations of the non-linear evolution of streaming instabilities in protoplanetary disks. The two components of the disk, gas treated with grid hydrodynamics and solids treated as superparticles, are mutually coupled by drag…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Anders Johansen , Andrew Youdin

We revisit, via a very simplified set of equations, a linear streaming instability (technically an overstability), which is present in, and potentially important for, dusty protoplanetary disks (Youdin & Goodman 2005). The goal is a better…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Emmanuel Jacquet , Steven A. Balbus , Henrik N. Latter

Context.Transition disks are believed to be the final stages of protoplanetary disks, during which a forming planetary system or photoevaporation processes open a gap in the inner disk, drastically changing the disk structure. From…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-17 P. Pinilla , M. Benisty , T. Birnstiel

We propose a mechanism by which dust rings in protoplanetary disks can form and be long-lasting compared to gas rings. This involves the existence of a pressure maximum which traps dust either in between two gap-opening planets or at the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-21 Farzana Meru , Sascha P. Quanz , Maddalena Reggiani , Clement Baruteau , Jaime E. Pineda