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The streaming instability (SI), driven by aerodynamic coupling between solids and the gas under a global radial pressure gradient, concentrates solids and facilitates planetesimal formation. Unstratified simulations are commonly used to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Jeonghoon Lim , Stanley A. Baronett , Jacob B. Simon , Chao-Chin Yang , Debanjan Sengupta , Orkan M. Umurhan , Wladimir Lyra

We identify a new hydrodynamical instability in protoplanetary discs that may arise due to variations in the dust-to-gas ratio and may lead to concentration of dust grains within a disc. The instability can arise due to dust settling, which…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Pablo Loren-Aguilar , Matthew R. Bate

In the innermost regions of protoplanerary discs, the solid-to-gas ratio can be increased considerably by a number of processes, including photoevaporative and particle drift. MHD disc models also suggest the existence of a dead-zone at…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Arnaud Pierens , Min-Kai Lin , Sean Raymond

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

The sticking of micron sized dust particles due to surface forces in circumstellar disks is the first stage in the production of asteroids and planets. The key ingredients that drive this process are the relative velocity between the dust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Zsom , C. W. Ormel , C. Guettler , J. Blum , C. P. Dullemond

As accretion in protoplanetary disks is enabled by turbulent viscosity, the border between active and inactive (dead) zones constitutes a location where there is an abrupt change in the accretion flow. The gas accumulation that ensues…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. Lyra , A. Johansen , A. Zsom , H. Klahr , N. Piskunov

The solid content of circumstellar disks is inherited from the interstellar medium: dust particles of at most a micrometer in size. Protoplanetary disks are the environment where these dust grains need to grow at least 13 orders of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-19 T. Birnstiel , M. Fang , A. Johansen

Vortex formation through the Rossby wave instability (RWI) in protoplanetary discs has been invoked to play a role in planet formation theory, and suggested to explain the observation of large dust asymmetries in several transitional discs.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Min-Kai Lin

Protoplanetary disks are prone to several hydrodynamic instabilities. One candidate, Convective Overstability (COS), can drive radial semi-convection that may influence dust dynamics and planetesimal formation. However, the COS has…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-12 Marius Lehmann , Min-Kai Lin

Super-Earths exist around subsolar-metallicity host stars with a frequency comparable to that around solar-metallicity stars, suggesting efficient assembly of dust grains even in metal-deficient environments. In this study, we propose a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 Ryoki Matsukoba , Eduard I. Vorobyov , Takashi Hosokawa

We perform a systematic study of the dynamics of dust particles in protoplanetary disks with embedded planets using global 2-D and 3-D inviscid hydrodynamic simulations. Lagrangian particles have been implemented into magnetohydrodynamic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Zhaohuan Zhu , James M. Stone , Roman R. Rafikov , Xuening Bai

Principal regular satellites of gas giants are thought to be formed by the accumulation of solid materials in circumplanetary disks (CPDs). While there has been significant progress in the study of satellite formation in CPDs, details of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-19 Natsuho Maeda , Keiji Ohtsuki , Ryo Suetsugu , Yuhito Shibaike , Takayuki Tanigawa , Masahiro N. Machida

We investigate the occurrence of accretion bursts, dust accumulation, and the prospects for planetesimal formation in a gravitationally unstable magnetized protoplanetary disk with globally suppressed but episodically triggered…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-21 Indrani Das , Eduard Vorobyov , Shantanu Basu

Secular gravitational instability (GI) is one of the promising mechanisms for creating annular substructures and planetesimals in protoplanetary disks. We perform numerical simulations of the secular GI in a radially extended disk with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-07 Ryosuke T. Tominaga , Sanemichi Z. Takahashi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Hydrodynamic, non-magnetic instabilities can provide turbulent stress in the regions of protoplanetary discs, where the MRI can not develop. The induced motions influence the grain growth, from which formation of planetesimals begins.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 M. G. Malygin , H. Klahr , D. Semenov , Th. Henning , C. P. Dullemond

The recently discovered resonant drag instability (RDI) of dust streaming in protoplanetary disc is considered as the mode coupling of subsonic gas-dust mixture perturbations. This mode coupling is coalescence of two modes with nearly equal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 V. V. Zhuravlev

We study particle dynamics in local two-dimensional simulations of self-gravitating accretion discs with a simple cooling law. It is well known that the structure which arises in the gaseous component of the disc due to a gravitational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. G. Gibbons , W. K. M. Rice , G. R. Mamatsashvili

We study the dynamics and growth of dust particles in circumstellar disks of different masses that are prone to gravitational instability during the critical first Myr of their evolution. The dust component is made up of two different…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Vardan G. Elbakyan , Anders Johansen , Michiel Lambrechts , Vitaly Akimkin , Eduard I. Vorobyov

In this paper, we study the effect of MHD turbulence on the dynamics of dust particles in protoplanetary disks. We vary the size of the particles and relate the dust evolution to the turbulent velocity fluctuations. We performed numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Fromang , J. Papaloizou

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