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Understanding planet formation requires to discern how dust grows in protoplanetary disks. An important parameter to measure in disks is the maximum dust grain size present. This is usually estimated through measurements of the dust opacity…

ALMA has spatially resolved over 200 annular structures in protoplanetary discs, many of which are suggestive of the presence of planets. Constraining the mass of these putative planets is quite degenerate for it depends on the disc…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Yinhao Wu , Clément Baruteau , Sergei Nayakshin

High-resolution ALMA observations have revealed asymmetric dust crescents in several protoplanetary disks, suggesting efficient dust trapping mechanisms potentially linked to gas vortices. While such features have been associated with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Lizxandra Flores-Rivera , Natascha Manger , Michiel Lambrechts , Mario Flock , Sebastian Lorek , Anders Johansen , Hubert Klahr

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

Protoplanetary disks often appear as multiple concentric rings in dust continuum emission maps and scattered light images. These features are often associated with possible young planets in these disks. Many non-planetary explanations have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 C. P. Dullemond , A. B. T. Penzlin

The crucial initial step in planet formation is the agglomeration of micron-sized dust into macroscopic aggregates. This phase is likely to happen very early during the protostellar disc formation, which is characterised by active gas…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Vitaly Akimkin , Eduard Vorobyov , Yaroslav Pavlyuchenkov , Olga Stoyanovskaya

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…

Recent surveys have revealed that protoplanetary discs typically have dust masses that appear to be insufficient to account for the high occurrence rate of exoplanet systems. We demonstrate that this observed dust depletion is consistent…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Johan Appelgren , Michiel Lambrechts , Anders Johansen

We present 3D smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of protoplanetary discs undergoing a flyby by a stellar perturber on a parabolic orbit lying in a plane inclined relative to the disc mid-plane. We model the disc as a mixture of gas…

Dust constitutes only about one percent of the mass of circumstellar disks, yet it is of crucial importance for the modeling of planet formation, disk chemistry, radiative transfer and observations. The initial growth of dust from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 T. Birnstiel

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

The early evolution of protostellar, star-forming discs, including their density structure, turbulence, magnetic dynamics, and accretion variability, remains poorly understood. We present high-resolution magnetohydrodynamic simulations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Trey Qingyun Yang , Christoph Federrath

Accurate disk mass measurements are necessary to constrain disk evolution and the timescale of planet formation, but such measurements are difficult to make and are very dependent on assumptions. Here we look at the assumption that the disk…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 Z. Xin , C. C. Espaillat , A. M. Rilinger , A. Ribas , E. Macias

Instruments achieve sharper and finer observations of micron-in-size dust grains in the top layers of young stellar discs. To provide accurate models, we revisit the theory of dust settling for small grains, when gas stratification, dust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Guillaume Laibe , Charles-Edouard Brehier , Maxime Lombart

Stellar flybys are a common dynamical process in young stellar clusters and can significantly reshape protoplanetary discs. However, their impact on dust dynamics remains poorly understood, particularly in the weakly coupled regime…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Wei-Shan Su , Jeremy L. Smallwood , Min-Kai Lin , Chao-Chin Yang , Nicolás Cuello

We measure the turbulent diffusion coefficient of dust grains embedded in magnetorotational turbulence in a protoplanetary disc directly from numerical simulations and compare it to the turbulent viscosity of the flow. The simulations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Anders Johansen , Hubert Klahr

Context. Despite the recent discovery of spiral-shaped features in protoplanetary discs in the near-infrared and millimetric wavelengths, there is still an active discussion to understand how they formed. In fact, the spiral waves observed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Nicolás Cuello , Matías Montesinos , Sebastian M. Stammler , Fabien Louvet , Jorge Cuadra

The potential for planet formation of a circumstellar disk depends on the dust and gas reservoirs, which evolve as a function of the disk age. The ALMA Large Program AGE-PRO has measured several disk properties across three star-forming…

Constraining the strength of gas turbulence in protoplanetary discs is an open problem that has relevant implications for the physics of gas accretion and planet formation. In this work, we gauge the amount of turbulence in 6 of the discs…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-25 E. Pizzati , G. P. Rosotti , B. Tabone

In this paper we study the evolution of radiative fluxes, flux radii and observable dust masses in protoplanetary discs, in order to understand how these depend on the angular momentum budget and on the assumed heat sources. We use a model…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Johan Appelgren , Anders Johansen , Michiel Lambrechts , Jes Jørgensen , Nienke van der Marel , Nagayoshi Ohashi , John Tobin