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We improve on our previous treatments of long-term evolution of protostellar disks by explicitly solving disk self-gravity in two dimensions. The current model is an extension of the one-dimensional layered accretion disk model of Bae et…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Jaehan Bae , Lee Hartmann , Zhaohuan Zhu , Richard P. Nelson

We report on the results of the first 3D SPH simulation of massive, gravitationally unstable protoplanetary disks with radiative transfer. We adopt a flux-limited diffusion scheme justified by the high opacity of most of the disk. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lucio Mayer , Graeme Lufkin , Thomas Quinn , James Wadsley

We perform non-linear simulation of secular gravitational instability (GI) in protoplanetary disks that has been proposed as a mechanism of the planetesimal formation and the multiple ring formation. Since the timescale of the growth of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Ryosuke T. Tominaga , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Sanemichi Z. Takahashi

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

Using high resolution, two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations, we investigate the evolution of a self-gravitating multi-phase interstellar medium in the central kiloparsec region of a galactic disk. We find that a gravitationally and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Keiichi Wada , C. A. Norman

The strength and structure of the large-scale magnetic field in protoplanetary discs are still unknown, although they could have important consequences for the dynamics and evolution of the disc. Using a mean-field approach in which we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jerome Guilet , Gordon I. Ogilvie

Young protostellar discs are likely to be both self-gravitating, and to support grain growth to sizes where the particles decoupled from the gas. This combination could lead to short-wavelength fragmentation of the solid component in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Cristiano Longarini , Philip J. Armitage , Giuseppe Lodato , Daniel J. Price , Simone Ceppi

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

One of many challenges in forming giant gas planets via Gravitational disc Instability model (GI) is an inefficient radiative cooling of the pre-collapse fragments. Since fragment contraction times are as long at $10^5 -10^7$ years, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Sergei Nayakshin

Using radiation hydrodynamics simulations in a local stratified shearing box with realistic equations of state and opacities, we explored the outcome of self-gravity at 50 AU in a protoplanetary disc irradiated by the central star. We found…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Shigenobu Hirose , Ji-Ming Shi

Post-asymptotic giant branch (post-AGB) binary stars are evolved systems that host circumbinary discs formed through mass loss during late stage binary interactions. Their structural, morphological, kinematic, and chemical similarities to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Ali Pourmand , Devika Kamath , Orsola De Marco , Mark Wardle

The inner regions of protoplanetary disks are prone to thermal instability (TI), which can significantly impact the thermal and dynamic evolution of planet-forming regions. Observable as episodic accretion outbursts, such periodic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-18 Michael Cecil , Mario Flock

Massive disk fragmentation has been suggested to be one of the mechanisms leading to the formation of giant planets. While it has been heavily studied in quiescent hydrodynamic disks, the effect of MHD turbulence arising from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sebastien Fromang

The gravitational instabilities are important to the evolution of the disks and the planet formation in the disks. We calculate the evolution of the disks which form from the collapse of the molecular cloud cores. By changing the properties…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-10 Ning Sui , Ping He , Min Li

This paper presents a fully three-dimensional radiative hydrodymanics simulation with realistic opacities for a gravitationally unstable 0.07 Msun disk around a 0.5 Msun star. We address the following aspects of disk evolution: the strength…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. C. Boley , A. C. Mejia , R. H. Durisen , K. Cai , M. K. Pickett , P. D'Alessio

The core-accretion mechanism for gas giant formation may be too slow to create all observed gas giant planets during reasonable gas disk lifetimes, but it has yet to be firmly established that the disk instability model can produce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard H. Durisen , Kai Cai , Annie C. Mejia , Megan K. Pickett

The instability in protoplanetary disks due to gas-dust friction and self-gravity of gas and dust is investigated by linear analysis. In the case where the dust to gas ratio is enhanced and turbulence is week, the instability grows, even in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Sanemichi Z. Takahashi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Low mass, self-gravitating accretion disks admit quasi-steady,`gravito-turbulent' states in which cooling balances turbulent viscous heating. However, numerical simulations show that gravito-turbulence cannot be sustained beyond dynamical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Min-Kai Lin , Kaitlin M. Kratter

We perform 3D radiation hydrodynamic local shearing box simulations to study the outcome of gravitational instability (GI) in optically thick Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) accretion disks. GI develops when the Toomre parameter QT \leq 1, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Yi-Xian Chen , Yan-Fei Jiang , Jeremy Goodman , Eve C. Ostriker

This paper considers gravitational perturbations in geometrically thin disks with rotation curves dominated by a central object, but with substantial contributions from magnetic pressure and tension. The treatment is general, but the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Susana Lizano , Daniele Galli , Mike J. Cai , Fred C. Adams