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Since the 1990's, protoplanetary disks and planetary disks have been intensively observed from the optical to the millimetre wavelength and many models have been developed to investigate their gas and dust properties and dynamics. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anne Dutrey , Alain Lecavelier des Etangs , Jean-Charles Augereau

Context: The global size and spatial distribution of dust is an important ingredient in the structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks and in the formation of larger bodies, such as planetesimals. Aims: We aim to derive simple…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-12 T. Birnstiel , H. Klahr , B. Ercolano

Signposts of early planet formation are ubiquitous in substructured young discs. Dense, hot and high-pressure regions formed during gravitational collapse process, integral to star formation, facilitate dynamical mixing of dust within the…

The inferred dust masses from Class II protoplanetary disk observations are lower than or equal to the masses of the observed exoplanet systems. This poses the question of how planets form if their natal environments do not contain enough…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Sofia Savvidou , Bertram Bitsch

Proto-planetary disc surveys conducted with ALMA are measuring disc radii in multiple star forming regions. The disc radius is a fundamental quantity to diagnose whether discs undergo viscous spreading, discriminating between viscosity or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Giovanni P. Rosotti , Marco Tazzari , Richard A. Booth , Leonardo Testi , Giuseppe Lodato , Cathie Clarke

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

Context. Protoplanetary discs are the birthplaces of planets. Recent studies highlight the role of stellar mass sampling in determining disc lifetimes from the observed fraction of stars with discs. Low-mass stars tend to host longer-lived…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Jose L. Gomez , Octavio M. Guilera , Marcelo M. Miller Bertolami , Elisa Castro-Martínez , María Paula Ronco

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

Despite intensive studies of protoplanetary disks, there is still no reliable way to determine their total mass and their surface density distribution, quantities that are crucial for describing both the structure and the evolution of disks…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Anna Miotello , Ewine F. van Dishoeck , Mihkel Kama , Simon Bruderer

Young protostellar discs provide the initial conditions for planet formation. The properties of these discs may be different from those of late-phase (T Tauri) discs due to continuing infall from the envelope and protostellar variability…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Benjamin A. MacFarlane , Dimitris Stamatellos

We study the dynamics of a viscous protoplanetary disc hosting a population of dust grains with a range of sizes. We compute steady-state solutions, and show that the radial motion of both the gas and the dust can deviate substantially from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-26 Giovanni Dipierro , Guillaume Laibe , Richard Alexander , Mark Hutchison

Observations indicate that stars generally lose their protoplanetary discs on a timescale of about 5 Myr. Which mechanisms are responsible for the disc dissipation is still debated. Here we investigate the movement through an ambient medium…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 T. P. G. Wijnen , O. R. Pols , F. I. Pelupessy , S. Portegies Zwart

Understanding the origin of accretion and dispersal of protoplanetary disks is fundamental for investigating planet formation. Recent numerical simulations show that launching winds are unavoidable when disks undergo magnetically driven…

We consider the dynamics of dust and gas during the clearing of protoplanetary discs. We work within the context of a photoevaporation/viscous model for the evolution of the gas disc, and use a two-fluid model to study the dynamics of dust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. D. Alexander , P. J. Armitage

The gaseous mass of protoplanetary disks is a fundamental quantity in planet formation. The presence of gas is necessary to assemble planetesimals, it determines timescales of giant planet birth, and it is an unknown factor for a wide range…

We investigate the simultaneous evolution of dust and gas density profiles at a radial pressure bump located in a protoplanetary disk. If dust particles are treated as test particles, a radial pressure bump traps dust particles that drift…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Tetsuo Taki , Masaki Fujimoto , Shigeru Ida

The major satellites of Jupiter and Saturn are believed to have formed in circumplanetary discs, which orbit forming giant protoplanets. Gas and dust in CPDs have different distributions and affect each other by drag, which varies with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Samuel M. Karlin , Olja Panić , Sven van Loo

Many processes during the evolution of protoplanetary disks and during planet formation are highly sensitive to the sizes of dust particles that are present in the disk: The efficiency of dust accretion in the disk and volatile transport on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Sebastian Markus Stammler , Tilman Birnstiel

When and how planets form in protoplanetary disks is still a topic of discussion. Exoplanet detection surveys and protoplanetary disk surveys are now providing results that allow us to have new insights. We collect the masses of confirmed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 C. F. Manara , A. Morbidelli , T. Guillot

Proto-planetary discs, the birth environment of planets, are an example of a structure commonly found in astrophysics, accretion discs. Identifying the mechanism responsible for accretion is a long-standing problem, dating back several…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-04 Giovanni P. Rosotti