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Streaming instability can be a very efficient way of overcoming growth and drift barriers to planetesimal formation. However, it was shown that strong clumping, which leads to planetesimal formation, requires a considerable number of large…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-03 Joanna Drazkowska , Cornelis P. Dullemond

We introduce a new technique to determine the gas turbulence and surface density in bright disc rings, under the assumption that dust growth is limited by turbulent fragmentation at the ring centre. We benchmark this prescription in HD…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-16 Francesco Zagaria , Cathie J. Clarke , Richard A. Booth , Stefano Facchini , Giovanni P. Rosotti

The main hurdle of planet formation theory is the metre-scale barrier. One of the most promising ways to overcome it is via the streaming instability (SI). Unfortunately, the mechanism responsible for the onset of this instability remains…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-15 Nathan Magnan , Tobias Heinemann , Henrik N. Latter

We present evidence that it is unlikely that the streaming instability (SI) can form planetesimals from mm grains inside axisymmetric pressure bumps. We conducted the largest simulation of the SI so far (7 million CPU hours), consisting of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Daniel Carrera , Jacob B. Simon

The streaming instability is a promising mechanism to overcome the barriers in direct dust growth and lead to the formation of planetesimals. Most previous studies of the streaming instability, however, were focused on a local region of a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Chao-Chin Yang , Anders Johansen

The streaming instability (SI) provides a promising mechanism for planetesimal formation because of its ability to concentrate solids into dense clumps. The degree of clumping strongly depends on the height-integrated solid to gas mass…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Xue-Ning Bai , James M Stone

The streaming instability (SI) is one of the most promising candidates for triggering planetesimal formation by producing dense dust clumps that undergo gravitational collapse. Understanding how the SI operates in realistic protoplanetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Chun-Yen Hsu , Min-Kai Lin

Streaming instability is a powerful mechanism which concentrates dust grains in pro- toplanetary discs, eventually up to the stage where they collapse gravitationally and form planetesimals. Previous studies inferred that it should be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Jérémy Auffinger , Guillaume Laibe

Forming macroscopic solid bodies in circumstellar discs requires local dust concentration levels significantly higher than the mean. Interactions of the dust particles with the gas must serve to augment local particle densities, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Holly L. Capelo , Jan Molacek , Michiel Lambrechts , John Lawson , Anders Johansen , Jurgen Blum , Eberhard Bodenschatz , Haitao Xu

Context. The Dust Settling Instabilty (DSI) is a member of the Resonant Drag Instabilities (RDI) family, and is thus related to the Streaming Instability (SI). Linear calculations found that the unstratified monodisperse DSI has growth…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Hossam Aly , Sijme-Jan Paardekooper

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

Streaming Instability (SI) in dust has long been thought to be a promising process in triggering planetesimal formation in the protoplanetary disks (PPDs). In this study, we present the first numerical investigation that models the SI in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Ka Wai Ho , Hui Li , Shengtai Li

The streaming instability concentrates solid particles in protoplanetary disks, leading to gravitational collapse into planetesimals. Despite its key role in producing particle clumping and determining critical length scales in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Charles P. Abod , Jacob B. Simon , Rixin Li , Philip J. Armitage , Andrew N. Youdin , Katherine A. Kretke

The streaming instability is a leading candidate mechanism to explain the formation of planetesimals. Yet, the role of this instability in the driving of turbulence in protoplanetary disks, given its fundamental nature as a linear…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Urs Schäfer , Anders Johansen , Robi Banerjee

The streaming instability, a promising mechanism to drive planetesimal formation in dusty protoplanetary discs, relies on aerodynamic drag naturally induced by the background radial pressure gradient. This gradient should vary in disks, but…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-09 Stanley A. Baronett , Chao-Chin Yang , Zhaohuan Zhu

We develop simple, physically motivated models for drag-induced dust-gas streaming instabilities, which are thought to be crucial for clumping grains to form planetesimals in protoplanetary disks. The models explain, based on the physics of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Jonathan Squire , Philip F. Hopkins

We present three-dimensional numerical simulations of particle clumping and planetesimal formation in protoplanetary disks with varying amounts of solid material. As centimeter-size pebbles settle to the mid-plane, turbulence develops…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Anders Johansen , Andrew Youdin , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

The streaming instability is a fundamental process that can drive dust-gas dynamics and ultimately planetesimal formation in protoplanetary discs. As a linear instability, it has been shown that its growth with a distribution of dust sizes…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Chao-Chin Yang , Zhaohuan Zhu

Recent study suggests that the streaming instability, one of the leading mechanisms for driving the formation of planetesimals, may not be as efficient as previously thought. Under some disc conditions, the growth timescale of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Zhaohuan Zhu , Chao-Chin Yang

The streaming instability is an efficient method for overcoming the barriers to planet formation in protoplanetary discs. The streaming instability has been extensively modelled by hydrodynamic simulations of gas and a single dust size.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Jip Matthijsse , Hossam Aly , Sijme-Jan Paardekooper