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Regular satellites in the solar system are thought to form within circumplanetary discs. We consider a model of a layered circumplanetary disc that consists of a nonturbulent midplane layer and and strongly turbulent disc surface layers.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Stephen H. Lubow , Rebecca G. Martin

We have studied formation of planetesimals at a radial pressure bump in a protoplanetary disk created by radially inhomogeneous magnetorotational instability (MRI), through three-dimensional resistive MHD simulations including dust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Mariko T. Kato , Masaki Fujimoto , Shigeru Ida

High angular resolution observations of discs at mm wavelengths (on scales of a few au) are now commonplace, but there is a current lack of a comparable angular resolution for observations at cm wavelengths. This presents a significant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 John D. Ilee , Cassandra Hall , Catherine Walsh , Izaskun Jiménez-Serra , Christophe Pinte , Jason Terry , Tyler Bourke , Melvin Hoare

Recent observations have revealed that protoplanetary discs often exhibit cavities and azimuthal asymmetries such as dust traps and clumps. The presence of a stellar binary system in the inner disc regions has been proposed to explain the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Pedro P. Poblete , Nicolás Cuello , Jorge Cuadra

Planetary migration in standard models of gaseous protoplanetary disks is known to be very rapid ($\sim 10^5$ years) jeopardizing the existence of planetary systems. We present a new mechanism for significantly slowing rapid planetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yasuhiro Hasegawa , Ralph E. Pudritz

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

Debris disks are the dust disks found around ~20% of nearby main sequence stars in far-IR surveys. They can be considered as descendants of protoplanetary disks or components of planetary systems, providing valuable information on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Mark C. Wyatt

In our previous study (Tsukamoto {\it et al.} 2023), we investigated formation and early evolution of protoplanetary disks with 3D non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics simulations considering dust growth, and found that the modified equations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Yusuke Tsukamoto

Axisymmetric dust rings are a ubiquitous feature of young protoplanetary disks. These rings are likely caused by pressure bumps in the gas profile; a small bump can induce a traffic jam-like pattern in the dust density, while a large bump…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Daniel Carrera , Jacob B. Simon , Rixin Li , Katherine A. Kretke , Hubert Klahr

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

The discovery of substructures in protoplanetary disks with ALMA has provided us key insights on the formation of planets. However, observational constraints on the formation of rocky planets have been still sparse, especially because of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Takahiro Ueda , Luca Ricci , Mario Flock , Zachary Castro

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

Protoplanetary discs contain a wide range of dust sizes that influence their thermal structure and planet formation processes such as planetesimal formation and pebble accretion. Dust evolution models are therefore essential for both planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-22 Linn E. J. Eriksson , Thomas Pfeil , Nicolas Kaufmann , Vignesh Vaikundaraman

Determination of the composition and size distribution of dust grains in debris discs is strongly dependent on constraining the underlying spatial distribution of that dust through multi-wavelength, spatially resolved imaging spanning…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 J. P. Marshall , S. Hengst , R. Young , F. Kemper , L. Matrà , N. Pawellek , H. Kobayashi , P. Scicluna , S. T. Zeegers

Dust is a major component of protoplanetary and debris disks as it is the main observable signature of planetary formation. However, since dust dynamics is size-dependent (because of gas-drag or radiation pressure) any attempt to understand…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Charnoz , E. Taillifet

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

Abridged: Recent simulations have explored different ways to form accretion disks around low-mass stars. We aim to present observables to differentiate a rotationally supported disk from an infalling rotating envelope toward deeply embedded…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-29 Daniel Harsono , Ewine van Dishoeck , Simon Bruderer , Zhi-Yun Li , Jes Jorgensen

The presence of planets in binary systems poses interesting problems for planet formation theories, both in cases where planets must have formed in very compact discs around the individual stars and where they are located near the edge of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Yayaati Chachan , Richard A. Booth , Amaury H. M. J. Triaud , Cathie Clarke

Turbulent, two-dimensional, hydrodynamic flows are characterized by the emergence of coherent, long-lived vortices without a need to invoke special initial conditions. Vortices have the ability to sequester particles, with typical radii…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Kevin Heng , Scott J. Kenyon

ALMA surveys have suggested that protoplanetary disks are not massive enough to form the known exoplanet population, under the assumption that the millimeter continuum emission is optically thin. In this work, we investigate how the mass…