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The flux of ISM neutral atoms surrounding stars and their environment affects the motion of dust particles in debris disks, causing a significant dynamical evolution. Large values of eccentricity and inclination can be excited and strong…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Francesco Marzari , Philippe Thebault

Radially compact protoplanetary discs (<=50 au) are ubiquitous in nearby star-forming regions. Multiple mechanisms have been invoked to interpret various compact discs. In this paper, we propose that fragmentation of fragile dust grains in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Simin Tong , Richard Alexander

We revisit the diffusive instability in dusty disks that arises when the dust mass diffusivity and/or viscosity decreases sufficiently steeply with increasing dust density. Our updated model includes an incompressible, viscous gas that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 Konstantin Gerbig , Min-Kai Lin

We conducted sub-millimeter observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) of star-forming galaxies at $z\sim3.3$, whose gas-phase metallicities have been previously measured. We investigate the dust and gas…

Closely-packed multi-planet systems are known to experience dynamical instability if the spacings between the planets are too small. Such instability can be tempered by the frictional forces acting on the planets from gaseous discs. A…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-07 Jiaru Li , Laetitia Rodet , Dong Lai

In this first paper in a series we present a study of the global dust emission distribution in nearby edge-on spiral galaxies. Our sample consists of 16 angularly large and 13 less spatially resolved galaxies selected from the DustPedia…

Protoplanets may be born into dust-rich environments if planetesimals formed through streaming or gravitational instabilities, or if the protoplanetary disc is undergoing mass loss due to disc winds or photoevaporation. Motivated by this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-08 Jhih-Wei Chen , Min-Kai Lin

In this article, we proceed to study convection as a possible factor of episodic accretion in protoplanetary disks. Within the model presented in Article~I, the accretion history is analyzed at different rates and areas of matter inflow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-17 L. A. Maksimova , Ya. N. Pavlyuchenkov , A. V. Tutukov

Secular gravitational instability (GI) is one promising mechanism for explaining planetesimal formation. The previous studies on secular GI utilized a razor-thin disk model and derived the growth condition in terms of the vertically…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Ryosuke T. Tominaga , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Sanemichi Z. Takahashi

The disk mass is among the most important input parameter for every planet formation model to determine the number and masses of the planets that can form. We present an ALMA 887micron survey of the disk population around objects from 2 to…

Motivated by lopsided structures observed in some massive transition discs, we have carried out 2D numerical simulations to study vortex structure in massive discs, including the effects of disc self-gravity and the indirect force which is…

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

We investigate the effects of different dust and gas opacity descriptions on the structure and evolution of the inner regions of protoplanetary discs. The influence on the episodic instability of the inner rim is hereby of central interest.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Michael Cecil , Mario Flock , Mykola G. Malygin , Rolf Kuiper , Prakruti Sudarshan , Alexandros Ziampras , Vardan G. Elbakyan

High redshift disc galaxies are more gas rich, clumpier, and more turbulent than local Universe galaxies. This early era of galaxy formation imprints the distribution and kinematics of the stars that we observe today, but it is not yet well…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-30 Floor van Donkelaar , Oscar Agertz , Florent Renaud

We use a series of idealized, numerical SPH simulations to study the formation and evolution of galactic, gas-rich disks forming from gas infall within dark matter halos. The temperature and density structure of the gas is varied in order…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Michael Aumer , Andreas Burkert , Peter H. Johansson , Reinhard Genzel

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 investigate the formation of dust traffic jams in polar-aligning circumbinary discs. We use 3D smoothed particle hydrodynamical simulations of both gas and dust to model an initially highly misaligned circumbinary disc around an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Jeremy L. Smallwood , Min-Kai Lin , Hossam Aly , Rebecca Nealon , Cristiano Longarini

To study the dust evolution in the cosmological structure formation history, we perform a smoothed particle hydrodynamic simulation with a dust enrichment model in a cosmological volume. We adopt the dust evolution model that represents the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Kuan-Chou Hou , Shohei Aoyama , Hiroyuki Hirashita , Kentaro Nagamine , Ikkoh Shimizu

We investigate where in protoplanetary disks magnetorotational instability operates, which can cause angular momentum transport in the disks. We investigate the spatial distribution of various charged particles and the unstable regions for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Takayoshi Sano , Shoken M. Miyama , Toyoharu Umebayashi , Takenori Nakano

Our aim is to explore the relation between gas, atomic and molecular, and dust in spiral galaxies. Gas surface densities are from atomic hydrogen and CO line emission maps. To estimate the dust content, we use the disk opacity as inferred…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 B. W. Holwerda , R. J. Allen , W. J. G. de Blok , A. Bouchard , R. A. Gonzalez-Lopezlira , P. C. van der Kruit , A. Leroy

Disk galaxies contain a large amount of interstellar dust, which affects the projection of kinematic quantities. We investigate in detail the effects of dust extinction on the mean projected velocity and the projected velocity dispersion.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maarten Baes , Herwig Dejonghe