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The evolution of protoplanetary disks, especially in the early stages of planetary formation, as dust grows, is the cornerstone of the birth of planets. The mechanisms involved in the growth of sub-micrometric dust grains into planetesimals…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Maxime Roumesy , François Ménard , Gaspard Duchêne , Ryo Tazaki , Christian Ginski

Dust grains with sizes around (sub)mm are expected to couple only weakly to the gas motion in regions beyond 10 au of circumstellar disks. In this work, we investigate the influence of the spatial distribution of such grains on the (sub)mm…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 J. P. Ruge , M. Flock , S. Wolf , N. Dzyurkevich , S. Fromang , Th. Henning , H. Klahr , H. Meheut

Enhancing the local dust-to-gas ratio in protoplanetary discs is a necessary first step to planetesimal formation. In laminar discs, dust settling is an efficient mechanism to raise the dust-to-gas ratio at the disc midplane. However,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Min-Kai Lin

Nearly-axisymmetric gaps and rings are commonly observed in protoplanetary discs. The leading theory regarding the origin of these patterns is that they are due to dust trapping at the edges of gas gaps induced by the gravitational torques…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 Linn E. J. Eriksson , Anders Johansen , Beibei Liu

Large-scale vertical magnetic fields are believed to play a key role in the evolution of protoplanetary discs. Associated with non-ideal effects, such as ambipolar diffusion, they are known to launch a wind that could drive accretion in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 A. Riols , G. Lesur , F. Menard

High spatial resolution observations of protoplanetary disks (PPDs) by ALMA have revealed many details that are providing interesting constraints on the disk physics as well as dust dynamics, both of which are essential for understanding…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Pinghui Huang , Hui Li , Andrea Isella , Ryan Miranda , Shengtai Li , Jianghui Ji

Large-scale vortices in protoplanetary disks are thought to form and survive for long periods of time. Hence, they can significantly change the global disk evolution and particularly the distribution of the solid particles embedded in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 P. Barge , L. Ricci , C. L. Carilli , R. Previn-Ratnasingam

Radio images of protoplanetary disks demonstrate that dust grains tend to organize themselves into rings. These rings may be a consequence of dust trapping within gas pressure maxima wherein the local high dust-to-gas ratio is expected to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Eve J. Lee , J. R. Fuentes , Philip F. Hopkins

MHD turbulence plays a crucial role in the dust dynamics of protoplanetary discs. It affects planet formation, vertical settling and is one possible origin of the large scale axisymmetric structures, such as rings, recently imaged by ALMA…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-03 A. Riols , G. Lesur

Aims. Dust plays a crucial role in the evolution of protoplanetary disks. We study the dynamics and growth of initially sub-$\mu m$ dust particles in self-gravitating young protoplanetary disks with various strengths of turbulent viscosity.…

The observed dust rings and gaps in protoplanetary disks could be imprints of forming planets. Even low-mass planets in the one-to-ten Earth-mass regime, that do not yet carve deep gas gaps, can generate such dust rings and gaps by driving…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Ayumu Kuwahara , Michiel Lambrechts , Hiroyuki Kurokawa , Satoshi Okuzumi , Takayuki Tanigawa

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

Recent spatially-resolved observations of protoplanetary disks revealed a plethora of substructures, including concentric rings and gaps, inner cavities, misalignments, spiral arms, and azimuthal asymmetries. This is the major breakthrough…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Jaehan Bae , Andrea Isella , Zhaohuan Zhu , Rebecca Martin , Satoshi Okuzumi , Scott Suriano

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

Rings and gaps are ubiquitous in protoplanetary disks. Larger dust grains will concentrate in gaseous rings more compactly due to stronger aerodynamic drag. However, the effects of dust concentration on the ring's thermal structure have not…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Shangjia Zhang , Xiao Hu , Zhaohuan Zhu , Jaehan Bae

Over the last years, large (sub-)millimetre surveys of protoplanetary disks have well constrained the demographics of disks, such as their millimetre luminosities, spectral indices, and disk radii. Additionally, several high-resolution…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Jochen Stadler , Matías Gárate , Paola Pinilla , Christian Lenz , Cornelis P. Dullemond , Til Birnstiel , Sebastian M. Stammler

This tutorial is an introduction to observational studies of dust transport and evolution in protoplanetary disks. Spatially resolved observations of disks at multiple wavelengths can allow to infer the distribution of various dust grains…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Marion Villenave

Dust evolution in protoplanetary disks from small dust grains to pebbles is key to the planet formation process. The gas in protoplanetary disks should influence the vertical distribution of small dust grains ($\sim$1 $\mu m$) in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Evan A. Rich , Richard Teague , John D. Monnier , Claire L. Davies , Arthur Bosman , Tim J. Harries , Nuria Calvet , Fred C. Adams , Zhaohuan Zhu

Spatial distribution and growth of dust in a clumpy protoplanetary disk subject to vigorous gravitational instability and fragmentation is studied numerically with sub-au resolution using the FEOSAD code. Hydrodynamics equations describing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Eduard I. Vorobyov , Vardan G. Elbakyan

We present new Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations for three protoplanetary disks in Taurus at 2.9\,mm and comparisons with previous 1.3\,mm data both at an angular resolution of $\sim0.''1$ (15\,au for the…