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We review the properties of dust in protoplanetary disks around optically visible pre-main sequence stars obtained with a variety of observational techniques, from measurements of scattered light at visual and infrared wavelengths to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Natta , L. Testi , N. Calvet , Th. Henning , R. Waters , D. Wilner

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

How substructures and disk properties affect dust evolution and the delivery of solids and volatiles into planet-forming regions remains an open question. We present results from tailored dust evolution modeling of the AGE-PRO ALMA large…

Knowing the masses and sizes of protoplanetary disks is of fundamental importance for the contemporary theories of planet formation. However, their measurements are associated with large uncertainties. In this proof of concept study, we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Eduard I. Vorobyov , Aleksandr Skliarevskii , Vardan Elbakyan , Michael Dunham , Manuel Guedel

Understanding the evolution of dust and molecular hydrogen (H$_2$) is a critical aspect of galaxy evolution, as they affect star formation and the spectral energy distribution of galaxies. We use the $N$-body/smoothed-particle-hydrodynamics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 Leonard E. C. Romano , Kentaro Nagamine , Hiroyuki Hirashita

The hydrodynamic models of the protoplanetary disk, which perturbed by the embeded low-mass companion, were calculated by our modification of GADGET-2 code. The cases of circular and eccentric orbits which can be coplanar or slightly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Tatiana Demidova , Vladimir Grinin

We present a novel method for determining the surface density of protoplanetary disks through consideration of disk 'dust lines' which indicate the observed disk radial scale at different observational wavelengths. This method relies on the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 Diana Powell , Ruth Murray-Clay , Hilke E. Schlichting

Protoplanetary disc mass is one of the most fundamental properties of a planet-forming system, as it sets the total mass budget available for planet formation. However, obtaining disc mass measurements remain challenging, since it is not…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Matthew Murray , Cassandra Hall , Hans Baehr , Jason Terry

We study the effects of grain surface reactions on the chemistry of protoplanetary disks where gas, ice surface layers and icy mantles of dust grains are considered as three distinct phases. Gas phase and grain surface chemistry is found to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Maxime Ruaud , Uma Gorti

A method for following fragmentation simulations further in time using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is presented. In a normal SPH simulation of the collapse and fragmentation of a molecular cloud, high-density regions of gas that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. R. Bate , I. A. Bonnell , N. M. Price

We investigate the dynamics of large dust grains in massive lopsided transition discs via 2D hydrodynamical simulations including both gas and dust. Our simulations adopt a ring-like gas density profile that becomes unstable against the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 Clément Baruteau , Zhaohuan Zhu

Context. Protoplanetary disks are known to host spiral features that are observed in scattered light, ALMA continuum and more recently in CO gas emission and gas dynamics. It is however unknown if spirals in gas and dust trace the same…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Ardjan Sturm , Giovanni Rosotti , Carsten Dominik

We analyze the stability of dust layer in protoplanetary disk to understand the effect of the relative motion between gas and dust. The previous analyses not including the effect of relative motion between gas and dust show that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shugo Michikoshi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We present three-dimensional self-gravitating smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of an isothermal gaseous disc interacting with an embedded planet. Discs of varying stability are simulated with planets ranging from 10…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Graeme Lufkin , Thomas Quinn , James Wadsley , Joachim Stadel , Fabio Governato

The chemical and physical evolution of primitive materials in protoplanetary disks are determined by the types of environments they are exposed to and their residence times within each environment. Here a method for calculating…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Fred J. Ciesla

Circumstellar discs, from which planetary systems are formed, consist of gas, dust and solids. Simulations of self-consistent dynamics of gas, dust and solids in circumstellar discs is a challenging problem. In the paper we present fast…

Dust grains play a crucial role in the modeling of protostellar formation, particularly through their opacity and interaction with the magnetic field. The destruction of dust grains in numerical simulations is currently modeled primarily by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-05 Antonin Borderies , Benoît Commerçon , Bernard Bourdon

In the recent years, sub/mm observations of protoplanetary disks have discovered an incredible diversity of substructures in the dust emission. An important result was the finding that dust grains of mm size are embedded in very thin dusty…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Mario Flock , Andrea Mignone

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

We present an implicit method for solving the diffusion equation for the evolution of the dust fraction in the terminal velocity approximation using dust-as-mixture smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). The numerical scheme involves…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-11 Daniel Elsender , Matthew R. Bate