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Super-thermal gas giant planets or their progenitor cores are known to open deep gaps in protoplanetary disks, which stop large, drifting dust particles on their way to the inner disk. The possible separation of the disk into distinct…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 Thomas Pfeil , Philip J. Armitage , Yan-Fei Jiang

Planetesimal formation via the streaming and gravitational instabilities of dust in protoplanetary disks requires a local enhancement of the dust-to-gas mass ratio. Radial drift of large grains toward pressure bumps in gas disks is a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-21 Satoshi Okuzumi

Aims. We numerically investigated dust enrichment and growth during the initial stages of protoplanetary disk formation. A particular objective was to determine the effects of various growth barriers, mimicked by imposing a series of upper…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 E. I. Vorobyov , V. G. Elbakyan , A. Skliarevskii , V. Akimkin , I. Kulikov

(abridged) In the core accretion scenario for the formation of planetary rocky cores, the first step toward planet formation is the growth of dust grains into larger and larger aggregates and eventually planetesimals. Although dust grains…

In protoplanetary disks, the formation of planetesimals via streaming and/or gravitational instabilities requires regions with a locally enhanced dust-to-gas mass ratio. Conventionally, gas pressure maxima sustained by gas surface density…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Ryo Kato , Takahiro Ueda , Satoshi Okuzumi

Planet formation via core accretion involves the growth of solids that can accumulate to form planetary cores. There are a number of barriers to the collisional growth of solids in protostellar discs, one of which is the drift, or metre,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-02 Ken Rice , Hans Baehr , Alison K Young , Richard Booth , Sahl Rowther , Farzana Meru , Cassandra Hall , Adam Koval

[abridged] Recent laboratory experiments indicate that destructive collisions of icy dust particles occur with much lower velocities than previously thought. When these new velocities are considered from laboratory experiments in dust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Paola Pinilla , Christian T. Lenz , Sebastian M. Stammler

We investigate dust growth due to settling in a 1D vertical column of a protoplanetary disk. It is known from the observed 10 micron feature in disk SEDs, that small micron-sized grains are present at the disk atmosphere throughout the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Zsom , C. W. Ormel , C. P. Dullemond , Th. Henning

A key problem in protoplanetary disc evolution is understanding the efficiency of dust radial drift. This process makes the observed dust disc sizes shrink on relatively short timescales, implying that discs started much larger than what we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Claudia Toci , Giovanni Rosotti , Giuseppe Lodato , Leonardo Testi , Leon Trapman

We have developed a new model for the astrochemical structure of a viscously evolving protoplanetary disk that couples an analytic description of the disk's temperature and density profile, chemical evolution, and an evolving dust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-10 Alex J. Cridland , Ralph E. Pudritz , Tilman Birnstiel

Rapid orbital drift of macroscopic dust particles is one of the major obstacles against planetesimal formation in protoplanetary disks. We reexamine this problem by considering porosity evolution of dust aggregates. We apply a porosity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Satoshi Okuzumi , Hidekazu Tanaka , Hiroshi Kobayashi , Koji Wada

The expectation that aerodynamic drag will force the solids in a gas-rich protoplanetary disk to spiral in toward the host star on short timescales is one of the fundamental problems in planet formation theory. The nominal efficiency of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Tilman Birnstiel , Sean M. Andrews

In this paper, we study the effect of MHD turbulence on the dynamics of dust particles in protoplanetary disks. We vary the size of the particles and relate the dust evolution to the turbulent velocity fluctuations. We performed numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Fromang , J. Papaloizou

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…

Context: In planetesimal formation theory, several barriers have been proposed, which are bouncing, fragmentation, and radial drift problems. To understand the structure evolution of dust aggregates is a key in the planetesimal formation.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Akimasa Kataoka , Hidekazu Tanaka , Satoshi Okuzumi , Koji Wada

We propose a new evolutionary process of protoplanetary disks "co-evolution of dust grains and protoplanetary disks", revealed by dust-gas two-fluid non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics simulations considering the growth of dust and associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Yusuke Tsukamoto , Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Coagulation of submicron-sized dust grains into porous aggregates is the initial step of dust evolution in protoplanetary disks. Recently, it has been pointed out that negative charging of dust in the weakly ionized disks could…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Satoshi Okuzumi , Hidekazu Tanaka , Taku Takeuchi , Masa-aki Sakagami

The thesis deals with the first stage of planet formation, namely dust coagulation from micron to millimeter sizes in circumstellar disks. For the first time, we collect and compile the recent laboratory experiments on dust aggregates into…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 Andras Zsom

Dust trapping in the global pressure bump induced by magnetospheric truncation offers a promising formation mechanism for close-in super-Earths/sub-Neptunes. These planets likely form in evolved protoplanetary discs, where the gas…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-23 Rixin Li , Yi-Xian Chen , Douglas N. C. Lin

The connection between the nature of a protoplanetary disk and that of a debris disk is not well understood. Dust evolution, planet formation, and disk dissipation likely play a role in the processes involved. We aim to reconcile both…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Arnaud Michel , Nienke van der Marel , Brenda Matthews