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We investigate the dynamics of dust grains with various sizes in protoplanetary disk winds driven by magnetorotational turbulence, by simulating the time evolution of the dust grain distribution in the vertical direction. Small dust grains,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Tomoya Miyake , Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We present a 3-D ideal MHD simulation of magnetospheric accretion onto a non-rotating star. The accretion process unfolds with intricate 3-D structures driven by various mechanisms. First, the disc develops filaments at the magnetospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-18 Zhaohuan Zhu , James M. Stone , Nuria Calvet

The outer protoplanetary disks (PPDs) can be subject to the magnetorotational instability (MRI) and the vertical shear instability (VSI). While both processes can drive turbulence in the disk, existing numerical simulations have studied…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Can Cui , Xue-Ning Bai

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is key physics in accretion disks and is widely considered to play some role in massive-star core collapse. Models of rotating massive stars naturally develop very strong shear at composition…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 J. Craig Wheeler , Daniel Kagan , Emmanouil Chatzopoulos

Activity of the nuclei of galaxies and stellar mass systems involving disk accretion to black holes is thought to be due to (1) a small-scale turbulent magnetic field in the disk (due to the magneto-rotational instability or MRI) which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-05 R. V. E. Lovelace , D. M. Rothstein , G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

Cool weakly ionized gaseous rotating disk, are considered by many models as the origin of the evolution of protoplanetary clouds. Instabilities against perturbations in such disks play an important role in the theory of the formation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 E. Liverts , M. Mond , A. D. Chernin

The theory of waves and instabilities in a differentially rotating disc containing a poloidal magnetic field is developed within the framework of ideal magnetohydrodynamics. A continuous spectrum, for which the eigenfunctions are localized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. I. Ogilvie

We investigate the dynamics of the accretion disks of young stars with fossil large-scale magnetic field. The author's magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model of the accretion disks is generalized to consider the dynamical influence of the magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Sergey A. Khaibrakhmanov , Alexander E. Dudorov

Dwarf Novae and low-mass X-ray binaries are eruptive binary systems comprised of a Roche-lobe overflowing solar-type star and an accreting compact object. Their recurrence time can be explained by a low-accreting phase, the quiescence,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 Marc Van den Bossche , Geoffroy Lesur , Guillaume Dubus

Using radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations with realistic opacities and equation of state, and zero net magnetic flux, we have explored thermodynamics in the inner part of protoplanetary discs where magnetic turbulence is expected.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Shigenobu Hirose

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) has been extensively studied in circular magnetized disks, and its ability to drive accretion has been demonstrated in a multitude of scenarios. There are reasons to expect eccentric magnetized disks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-13 Chi-Ho Chan , Tsvi Piran , Julian H. Krolik

Giant protoplanets evacuate a gap in their host protoplanetary disc, which gas must cross before it can be accreted. A magnetic field is likely carried into the gap, potentially influencing the flow. Gap crossing has been simulated with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Sarah L. Keith , Mark Wardle

Non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is the dominant process. We investigate the effect of magnetic fields (ideal and non-ideal) and turbulence (sub- and transsonic) on the formation of circumstellar discs that form nearly simultaneously…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 James Wurster , Benjamin T. Lewis

Truncated abstract: The formation of a protostellar disc is a natural outcome during the star formation process. As gas in a molecular cloud core collapses under self-gravity, the angular momentum of the gas will slow its collapse on small…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-18 James Wurster , Zhi-Yun Li

The role of magnetic fields for the formation of planets is reviewed. Protoplanetary disc turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability has a huge influence on the early stages of planet formation. Small dust grains are transported…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Anders Johansen

The linear stability of thin vertically-isothermal density-stratified Keplerian discs in toroidally-dominated magnetic fields is treated by asymptotic expansions in the small aspect ratio of the discs. The discs are found to be spectrally…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yuri M. Shtemler , Michael Mond , Edward Liverts

A new non-dissipative mechanism is proposed for the saturation of the axisymmetric magnetorotational (MRI) instability in thin Keplerian disks that are subject to an axial magnetic field. That mechanism relies on the energy transfer from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Edward Liverts , Yuri Shtemler , Michael Mond , Orkan M. Umurhan , Dmitry V. Bisikalo

We present results from the first radiation non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations of low-mass star cluster formation that resolve the fragmentation process down to the opacity limit. We model 50~M$_\odot$ turbulent clouds…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-12 James Wurster , Matthew R. Bate , Daniel J. Price

Global three dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of turbulent accretion disks are presented which start from fully equilibrium initial conditions in which the magnetic forces are accounted for and the induction equation is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 E. R. Parkin , G. V. Bicknell

Recent observations revealed organised structures in protoplanetary disks, such as axisymmetric rings or horseshoe concen- trations evocative of large-scale vortices. These structures are often interpreted as the result of planet-disc…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 William Béthune , Geoffroy Lesur , Jonathan Ferreira