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The streaming instability is a leading candidate mechanism to explain the formation of planetesimals. Yet, the role of this instability in the driving of turbulence in protoplanetary disks, given its fundamental nature as a linear…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Urs Schäfer , Anders Johansen , Robi Banerjee

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

We develop simple, physically motivated models for drag-induced dust-gas streaming instabilities, which are thought to be crucial for clumping grains to form planetesimals in protoplanetary disks. The models explain, based on the physics of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Jonathan Squire , Philip F. Hopkins

The inner regions of protoplanetary disks are promising formation sites of rocky planetesimals. Theoretical studies have proposed a scenario in which thermal ionization activates the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in the hot inner…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Ryo Kato , Takahiro Ueda , Satoshi Okuzumi

The consistency of planet formation models suffers from the disconnection between the regime of small and large bodies. This is primarily caused by so-called growth barriers: the direct growth of larger bodies is halted at centimetre-sized…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Joanna Drazkowska , Yann Alibert , Ben Moore

We investigate the occurrence of accretion bursts, dust accumulation, and the prospects for planetesimal formation in a gravitationally unstable magnetized protoplanetary disk with globally suppressed but episodically triggered…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-21 Indrani Das , Eduard Vorobyov , Shantanu Basu

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

Infall of interstellar material is a potential non-planetary origin of pressure bumps in protoplanetary disks. While pressure bumps arising from other mechanisms have been numerically demonstrated to promote planet formation, the impact of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-30 Haichen Zhao , Tommy Chi Ho Lau , Tilman Birnstiel , Sebastian M. Stammler , Joanna Drążkowska

The streaming instability is considered one of the leading candidates for the formation of planetesimals, due to its ability to overcome the bouncing and fragmentation barriers. The formation of dense dust clumps through this process,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Arnaud Pierens , Thomas Collin-Dufresne , Min-Kai Lin , Emmanuel DiFolco

We study dust capture by vortices and its long-term consequences in global two-fluid inviscid disk simulations using a new polar grid code RoSSBi. We perform the longest integrations so far, several hundred disk orbits, at the highest…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Clément Surville , Lucio Mayer , Douglas N. C. Lin

The discovery that axisymmetric dust rings are ubiquitous in protoplanetary disks has provoked a flurry of research on the role of pressure bumps in planet formation. High-resolution simulations by our group have shown that even a modest…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Daniel Carrera , Andrew Thomas , Jacob B. Simon , Matthew A. Small , Katherine A. Kretke , Hubert Klahr

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

In protoplanetary disks the aerodynamical friction between particles and gas induces a variety of instabilities that facilitate planet formation. Of these we examine the so-called `secular gravitational instability' (SGI) in the two-fluid…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Henrik Latter , Roxana Rosca

The streaming instability is an efficient method for overcoming the barriers to planet formation in protoplanetary discs. The streaming instability has been extensively modelled by hydrodynamic simulations of gas and a single dust size.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Jip Matthijsse , Hossam Aly , Sijme-Jan Paardekooper

There is growing evidence that planet formation begins early, within the $\lesssim 1$Myr Class 0/I phase, when infall dominates disk dynamics. Our goal is to determine if Class 0/I disks reach the conditions needed to form planetesimals…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-21 Daniel Carrera , Abigail Davenport , Jacob B. Simon , Hans Baehr , Til Birnstiel , Cassandra Hall , David Rea , Sebastian Stammler

Damping of the previously discovered resonant drag instability (RDI) of dust streaming in protoplanetary disc is studied using the local approach to dynamics of gas-dust perturbations in the limit of the small dust fraction. Turbulence in a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 V. V. Zhuravlev

We show that the planetesimal formation due to the gravitational fragmentation of a dust layer in a protoplanetary disk is possible. The dust density distribution in the dust layer would approach the constant Richardson number distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Naoki Ishitsu , Minoru Sekiya

Transition disks have dust-depleted inner regions and may represent an intermediate step of an on-going disk dispersal process, where planet formation is probably in progress. Recent millimetre observations of transition disks reveal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-19 P. Pinilla , M. de Juan Ovelar , S. Ataiee , M. Benisty , T. Birnstiel , E. F. van Dishoeck , M. Min

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 streaming instability (SI) is currently the leading candidate for triggering planetesimal formation in protoplanetary disks. Recently, a novel variation, the `azimuthal-drift' streaming instability (AdSI), was discovered in disks…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-21 Shiang-Chih Wang , Min-Kai Lin