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We carry out three dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations to study the role of gravitational and drag forces on the concentration of large dust grains (St > 1) in the spiral arms of gravitationally unstable protoplanetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-25 Sahl Rowther , Rebecca Nealon , Farzana Meru , James Wurster , Hossam Aly , Richard Alexander , Ken Rice , Richard A. Booth

We study the radial migration of dust particles in accreting protostellar disks analogous to the primordial solar nebula. This study takes account of the two dimensional (radial and normal) structure of the disk gas, including the effects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-03 Taku Takeuchi , D. N. C. Lin

Interstellar dust plays a central role in the evolution of galaxies by shaping star formation, altering observed stellar properties, and redistributing radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. In the Milky Way, dust is concentrated in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-19 H. -L. Guo , B. -Q. Chen , H. -B. Yuan , X. -W. Liu

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

Cosmic dust plays a vital role in stellar and galactic formation and evolution, but its three-dimensional structure in the Milky Way has remained unclear due to insufficient precise reddening and distance measurements. Although early…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-16 Ruoyi Zhang , Haibo Yuan , Bingqiu Chen , Maosheng Xiang , Yang Huang , Xiaowei Liu , Jifeng Liu

Gravitational instability (GI) controls the dynamics of young massive protoplanetary discs. Apart from facilitating gas accretion on to the central protostar, it must also impact on the process of planet formation: directly through…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 A. Riols , B. Roux , H. Latter , G. Lesur

Protoplanetary disks exhibit a vertical gradient in angular momentum, rendering them susceptible to the Vertical Shear Instability (VSI). The most important condition for the onset of this mechanism is a short timescale of thermal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-18 Thomas Pfeil , Til Birnstiel , Hubert Klahr

We report the finding of a new, local diffusion instability in a protoplanetary disk, which can operate in a dust fluid, subject to mass diffusion, shear viscosity, and dust-gas drag, provided diffusivity, viscosity, or both decrease…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-22 Konstantin Gerbig , Min-Kai Lin , Marius Lehmann

Debris rings of dust are found around young luminous stars such as HR4796A and HD141569. Some of these entities have sharp edges and gaps which have been interpreted as evidence for the presence of shepherding and embedded planets. Here we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Klahr , D. N. C. Lin

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

Due to the gas rich environments of early circumstellar disks, the gravitational collapse of cool, dense regions of the disk form fragments largely composed of gas. During formation, disk fragments may attain increased metallicities as they…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-26 Hans Baehr , Hubert Klahr

In this work, we study how the dust coagulation/fragmentation will influence the evolution and observational appearances of vortices induced by a massive planet embedded in a low viscosity disk by performing global 2D high-resolution…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Ya-Ping Li , Hui Li , Shengtai Li , Tilman Birnstiel , Joanna Drazkowska , Sebastian Stammler

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

Stars form within dense cores composed of both gas and dust within molecular clouds. However, despite the crucial role that dust plays in the star formation process, its dynamics is frequently overlooked, with the common assumption being a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-21 Nadine H. Soliman , Philip F. Hopkins , Michael Y. Grudić

The dynamics of dust and gas can be quite different from each other when the dust is poorly coupled to the gas. In protoplanetary discs, it is well known that this decoupling of the dust and gas can lead to diverse spatial structures and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-10 Matthew R. Bate , Pablo Loren-Aguilar

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 investigate the dust structure of gravitationally unstable disks undergoing mass accretion from the envelope envisioning the application to Class 0/I young stellar objects (YSOs) We find that the dust disk quickly settles into a steady…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-16 Y. Tsukamoto , S. Okuzumi , A. Kataoka

Nonlinear numerical simulations are performed to investigate the density evolution in the dust layer of a protoplanetary disk due to the gravitational instability and dust settling toward the midplane. We assume the region where the radial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fumiharu Yamoto , Minoru Sekiya

Under the right conditions, the streaming instability between imperfectly coupled dust and gas is a powerful mechanism for planetesimal formation as it can concentrate dust grains to the point of gravitational collapse. In its simplest…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-04 Min-Kai Lin

Galactic disks consist of both stars and gas. The gas is more dynamically responsive than the stars, and strongly nonlinear structures and velocities can develop in the ISM even while stellar surface density perturbations remain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker