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The spatial distribution of dust particles in protoplanetary disks affects dust evolution and planetesimal formation processes. The vertical shear instability (VSI) is one of the candidate hydrodynamic mechanisms that can generate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-25 Yuya Fukuhara , Satoshi Okuzumi

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

Protoplanetary disks exhibit a vertical gradient in angular momentum, rendering them susceptible to the Vertical Shear Instability (VSI). The most important condition for the onset of this mechanism is a short timescale of thermal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-18 Thomas Pfeil , Til Birnstiel , Hubert Klahr

Several protoplanetary disks observed by ALMA show dust concentrations consistent with particle trapping in giant vortices. The formation and survival of vortices is of major importance for planet formation, because vortices act as particle…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 Natascha Manger , Hubert Klahr

The vertical shear instability (VSI) is a hydrodynamical instability that requires rapid gas cooling and has been suggested to operate in outer regions of protoplanetary disks. The VSI drives turbulence with strong vertical motions, which…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Yuya Fukuhara , Satoshi Okuzumi , Tomohiro Ono

In weakly ionized discs turbulence can be generated through the vertical shear instability (VSI). Embedded planets feel a stochastic component in the torques acting on them which can impact their migration. In this work we study the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Moritz Stoll , Giovanni Picogna , Wilhelm Kley

Context. Gas in protoplanetary disks mostly cools via thermal accommodation with dust particles. Thermal relaxation is thus highly sensitive to the local dust size distributions and the spatial distribution of the grains. So far, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-26 Thomas Pfeil , Til Birnstiel , Hubert Klahr

Planets are born in protostellar disks, which are now observed with enough resolution to address questions about internal gas flows. Candidates for driving the flows include magnetic forces, but ionization state estimates suggest much of…

In recent years hydrodynamical (HD) models have become important to describe the gas kinematics in protoplanetary disks, especially in combination with models of photoevaporation and/or magnetic-driven winds. We focus on diagnosing the the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Lizxandra Flores-Rivera , Mario Flock , Ryohei Nakatani

We investigate a massive ($\varSigma \sim 10000 g cm^{-2}$ at 1 AU) protoplanetary disc model by means of 3D radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations. The vertical structure of the disc is determined self-consistently by a balance between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Flaig , W. Kley , R. Kissmann

We present the results of 2D and 3D hydrodynamic simulations of idealized protoplanetary discs that examine the formation and evolution of vortices by the vertical shear instability (VSI). In agreement with recent work, we find that discs…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-01 Samuel Richard , Richard P. Nelson , Orkan M. Umurhan

Turbulence is crucial for protoplanetary disk dynamics, and Vertical Shear Instability (VSI) is a promising mechanism in outer disk regions to generate turbulence. We use Athena++ radiation module to study VSI in full and transition disks,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-12 Shangjia Zhang , Zhaohuan Zhu , Yan-Fei Jiang

Protoplanetary discs should exhibit a weak vertical variation in their rotation profiles. Typically this `vertical shear' issues from a baroclinic effect driven by the central star's radiation field, but it might also arise during the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 Henrik N. Latter , Matthew W. Kunz

Recently, the vertical shear instability (VSI) has become an attractive purely hydrodynamic candidate for the anomalous angular momentum transport required for weakly ionized accretion disks. In direct three-dimensional numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Moritz H. R. Stoll , Giovanni Picogna , Wilhelm Kley

The mechanisms of angular momentum transport and level of turbulence in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) are crucial for understanding many aspects of planet formation. In the recent years, it has been realized that the magneto-rotational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Can Cui , Xue-Ning Bai

The vertical shear instability (VSI) is a robust phenomenon in irradiated protoplanetary disks (PPDs). While there is extensive literature on the VSI in the hydrodynamic limit, PPDs are expected to be magnetized and their extremely low…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-27 Can Cui , Min-Kai Lin

The Streaming Instability (SI) is a mechanism to concentrate solids in protoplanetary disks. Nonlinear particle clumping from the SI can trigger gravitational collapse into planetesimals. To better understand the numerical robustness of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 Rixin Li , Andrew N. Youdin , Jacob B. Simon

Theoretical models of the ionization state in protoplanetary disks suggest the existence of large areas with low ionization and weak coupling between the gas and magnetic fields. In this regime hydrodynamical instabilities may become…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Mario Flock , Neal J. Turner , Richard P. Nelson , Wladimir Lyra , Natascha Manger , Hubert Klahr

We explore the linear stability of astrophysical discs exhibiting vertical shear, which arises when there is a radial variation in the temperature or entropy. Such discs are subject to a "vertical-shear instability", which recent nonlinear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Adrian J. Barker , Henrik N. Latter

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