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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

Context: Sticking of colliding dust particles through van der Waals forces is the first stage in the grain growth process in protoplanetary disks, eventually leading to the formation of comets, asteroids and planets. A key aspect of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. W. Ormel , M. Spaans , A. G. G. M. Tielens

We numerically model the evolution of dust in a protoplanetary disk using a two-phase (gas+dust) Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) code, which is non-self-gravitating and locally isothermal. The code follows the three dimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. T. Maddison , L. Fouchet , J. -F. Gonzalez

Protoplanetary discs are dynamic environments where the interplay between chemical processes and mass transport shapes the composition of gas and dust available for planet formation. We investigate the combined effects of volatile chemistry…

We develop a simple model to predict the radial distribution of planetesimal formation. The model is based on the observed growth of dust to mm-sized particles, which drift radially, pile-up, and form planetesimals where the stopping time…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Philip J. Armitage , Josh A. Eisner , Jacob B. Simon

We study particle dynamics in local two-dimensional simulations of self-gravitating accretion discs with a simple cooling law. It is well known that the structure which arises in the gaseous component of the disc due to a gravitational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. G. Gibbons , W. K. M. Rice , G. R. Mamatsashvili

Global numerical simulations of protoplanetary disk formation and evolution were conducted in thin-disk limit, where the model included magnetically layered disk structure, a self-consistent treatment for the infall from cloud core as well…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Kundan Kadam , Eduard Vorobyov , Zsolt Regály , Ágnes Kóspál , Péter Ábrahám

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 plays a fundamental role during protostellar collapse, disk and planet formation. Recent observations suggest that efficient dust growth may begin early, in the protostellar envelopes, potentially even before the formation of the disk.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Maxime Lombart , Ugo Lebreuilly , Anaëlle Maury

Millimeter emitting dust grains have sizes that make them susceptible to drift in protoplanetary disks due to a difference between their orbital speed and that of the gas. The characteristic drift timescale depends on the surface density of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Jonathan P. Williams , Caleb Painter , Alexa R. Anderson , Alvaro Ribas

We have studied dust evolution in a quiescent or turbulent protoplanetary disk by numerically solving coagulation equation for settling dust particles, using the minimum mass solar nebular model. As a result, if we assume an ideally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hideko Nomura , Yoshitsugu Nakagawa

Dust growth is a crucial step in planet formation, and the efficiency of this process is controlled by the physical and chemical properties of the dust grains. Monte Carlo-based methods are commonly used to follow the collisional evolution…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Nerea Gurrutxaga , Vignesh Vaikundaraman , Joanna Drazkowska

[Abridged] Aims. We provide an important step toward a better understanding of the magnetorotational instability (MRI)-dust coevolution in protoplanetary disks by presenting a proof of concept that dust evolution ultimately plays a crucial…

Mutual sticking of dust aggregates is the first step toward planetesimal formation in protoplanetary disks. In spite that the electric charging of dust particles is well recognized in some contexts, it has been largely ignored in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Satoshi Okuzumi

One of the main problems in planet formation, hampering the growth of small dust to planetesimals, is the so-called radial-drift barrier. Pebbles of cm to dm sizes are thought to drift radially across protoplanetary discs faster than they…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-24 Anthony J. L. Garcia , Jean-François Gonzalez

Aims. A new mechanism of dust accumulation and planetesimal formation in a gravitationally unstable disk with suppressed magnetorotational instability is studied and compared with the classical dead zone in a layered disk model. Methods. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 Eduard I. Vorobyov , Aleksandr M. Skliarevskii , Manuel Guedel , Tamara Molyarova

Planet formation is thought to begin with the growth of dust particles in protoplanetary disks from micrometer to millimeter and centimeter sizes. Dust growth is hindered by a number of growth barriers, according to dust evolution theory,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-04 Nienke van der Marel

Dust growth from micron- to planet-size in protoplanetary discs involves multiple physical processes, including dust collisions, the streaming instability, and pebble accretion. Disc turbulence and dust fragility matter at almost every…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Simin Tong , Richard Alexander , Giovanni Rosotti

We present cosmological zoom-in hydro-dynamical simulations for the formation of disc galaxies, implementing dust evolution and dust promoted cooling of hot gas. We couple an improved version of our previous treatment of dust evolution,…

The solid content of circumstellar disks is inherited from the interstellar medium: dust particles of at most a micrometer in size. Protoplanetary disks are the environment where these dust grains need to grow at least 13 orders of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-19 T. Birnstiel , M. Fang , A. Johansen