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Linear analysis of the stability of diffuse clouds in the cold neutral medium with uniform magnetic field is performed. We consider that gas in equilibrium state is heated by cosmic rays, X-rays and electronic photoeffect on the surface of…

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It is known that a finite-size homogeneous granular fluid develops an hydrodynamic-like instability when dissipation crosses a threshold value. This instability is analyzed in terms of modified hydrodynamic equations: first, a source term…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Soto , M. Mareschal , M. Malek Mansour

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

(Abridged) In this paper we have used the RIEMANN code for computational astrophysics to study the interaction of a realistic distribution of dust grains with gas in a vertically stratified protostellar accretion disc. The disc was modeled…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dinshaw S. Balsara , David A. Tilley , Terrence Rettig , Sean A. Brittain

The modulational instability of dust-ion-acoustic (DIA) mode and associated rogue waves in a three component dusty plasma system (containing inertial warm ion and negatively charged dust fluids along with inertialess $q$-distributed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 N. K. Tamanna , J. Akter , N. A. Chowdhury , A. A. Mamun

Radiative diffusion damps acoustic modes at large comoving wavenumber (k) before decoupling (``Silk damping''). In a simple WKB analysis, neglecting moments of the temperature distribution beyond the quadrupole, damping appears in the…

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This work presents a linear analytical calculation on the stability and evolution of a compressible, viscous self-gravitating (SG) Keplerian disc with both horizontal thermal diffusion and a constant cooling timescale when an axisymmetric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Riccardo Vanon , Gordon Ogilvie

We study the linear growth and nonlinear saturation of the "acoustic Resonant Drag Instability" (RDI) when the dust grains, which drive the instability, have a wide, continuous spectrum of different sizes. This physics is generally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-13 Jonathan Squire , Stefania Moroianu , Philip F. Hopkins

Context: The streaming instability (SI) is a leading candidate for reaching solid densities sufficient to trigger the gravitational collapse needed for the formation of planetesimals. However, dust growth barriers appear to impede the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 V. Vallucci-Goy , U. Lebreuilly , M. -M. Mac Low , P. Hennebelle

Context. Multiple mechanisms are known to give rise to turbulence in protoplanetary disks, which facilitates the accretion onto the central star. Small dust particles that are well coupled to the gas undergo diffusion due to this turbulent…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-22 B. N. Schobert , A. G. Peeters

Gravitational instabilities play an important role in structure formation of gas-rich high-redshift disc galaxies. In this paper, we revisit the axisymmetric perturbation theory and the resulting growth of structure by taking the realistic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-04 Manuel Behrendt , Andreas Burkert , Marc Schartmann

We perform simulations of the dust and gas disk evolution to investigate the observational features of a dust-pileup at the dead-zone inner edge. We show that the total mass of accumulated dust particles is sensitive to the turbulence…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Takahiro Ueda , Mario Flock , Satoshi Okuzumi

We present a general linear dispersion relation which describes the coupled behavior of magnetorotational, photon bubble, and convective instabilities in weakly magnetized, differentially rotating accretion disks. We presume the accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Omer Blaes , Aristotle Socrates

How rapidly a planet grows in mass and how far they may park from the host star depend sensitively on two non-dimensional parameters: Stokes number St and turbulent $\alpha$. Yet, these parameters remain highly uncertain being difficult or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-04 Eve J. Lee

A new condition for the linear dissipative instability of the strong plane shock wave in an arbitrary medium is obtained. The instability of the shock is realized due to the flow instability behind its front, which is similar to the known…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-24 Sergey G. Chefranov

We consider the linear axisymmetric stability of a differentially rotating collisionless plasma in the presence of a weak magnetic field; we restrict our analysis to wavelengths much larger than the proton Larmor radius. This is the kinetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eliot Quataert , William Dorland , Greg Hammett

We investigate the linear tearing instability in weakly collisional plasmas using a non-ideal gyrotropic-MHD framework, uncovering a previously unknown scaling relation for the instability growth rate in high-$\beta$ environments. Even…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Gabriel L. Ferreira-Santos , Grzegorz Kowal , Diego A. Falceta-Gonçalves

An analytical model for a turbulent clumpy gas disk is presented where turbulence is maintained by the energy input due to supernovae. Expressions for the disk parameters, global filling factors, molecular fractions, and star formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Vollmer , T. Beckert

Recent numerical simulations have revealed that dust clumping and planetesimal formation likely proceed in ring-like disc substructures, where dust gets trapped in weakly turbulent pressure maxima. The streaming instability has difficulty…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-28 Hanpu Liu , Xue-Ning Bai

We study stability of a dust layer in a gaseous disc subject to the linear axisymmetric perturbations. Instead of considering single-size particles, however, the population of dust particles is assumed to consist of two grain species. Dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-15 Mohsen Shadmehri