English
Related papers

Related papers: Dust diffusion in protoplanetary discs by magnetor…

200 papers

Dust grains with sizes around (sub)mm are expected to couple only weakly to the gas motion in regions beyond 10 au of circumstellar disks. In this work, we investigate the influence of the spatial distribution of such grains on the (sub)mm…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 J. P. Ruge , M. Flock , S. Wolf , N. Dzyurkevich , S. Fromang , Th. Henning , H. Klahr , H. Meheut

We have studied dust evolution in a quiescent or turbulent protoplanetary disk by numerically solving coagulation equation for settling dust particles, using the minimum mass solar nebular model. As a result, if we assume an ideally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hideko Nomura , Yoshitsugu Nakagawa

Context: The global size and spatial distribution of dust is an important ingredient in the structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks and in the formation of larger bodies, such as planetesimals. Aims: We aim to derive simple…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-12 T. Birnstiel , H. Klahr , B. Ercolano

The rapid depletion of dust particles in protoplanetary disks limits the time available for planetesimal formation, as solids are typically accreted onto the central star before dust particles can undergo substantial growth. Dust traps…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 D. Tarczay-Nehéz

Motivated by recent observations which detect dust at large galactocentric distances in the disks of spiral galaxies, we propose a mechanism of outward radial transport of dust by spiral stellar density waves. We consider spiral galaxies in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. I. Vorobyov , Yu. A. Shchekinov

In spite of making a small contribution to total protoplanetary disk mass, dust affects the disk temperature by controlling absorption of starlight. As grains grow from their initial ISM-like size distribution, settling depletes the disk's…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Debanjan Sengupta , Sarah E. Dodson-Robinson , Yasuhiro Hasegawa , Neal J. Turner

We study the dust motion at the surface layer of protoplanetary disks. Dust grains in surface layer migrate outward due to angular momentum transport via gas-drag force induced by the stellar radiation pressure. In this study, we calculate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Ryo Tazaki , Hideko Nomura

Turbulence driven by magnetorotational instability (MRI) crucially affects the evolution of solid bodies in protoplanetary disks. On the other hand, small dust particles stabilize MRI by capturing ionized gas particles needed for the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Satoshi Okuzumi , Shigenobu Hirose

Tidal interactions between the embedded planets and their surrounding protoplanetary disks are often postulated to produce the observed complex dust substructures, including rings, gaps, and asymmetries. In this Letter, we explore the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 JT Laune , Hui Li , Shengtai Li , Ya-Ping Li , Levi G. Walls , Tilman Birnstiel , Joanna Drazkowska , Sebastian Stammler

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

The streaming instability, a promising mechanism to drive planetesimal formation in dusty protoplanetary discs, relies on aerodynamic drag naturally induced by the background radial pressure gradient. This gradient should vary in disks, but…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-09 Stanley A. Baronett , Chao-Chin Yang , Zhaohuan Zhu

In this paper we discuss the influence of gravitational instabilities in massive protostellar discs on the dynamics of dust grains. Starting from a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulation, we have computed the evolution of the dust…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Giovanni Dipierro , Paola Pinilla , Giuseppe Lodato , Leonardo Testi

We investigate the phenomenon of turbulent thermal diffusion of inertial solid particles in laboratory experiments with convective turbulence forced by one or two oscillating grids in the air. Turbulent thermal diffusion causes a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-26 E. Elmakies , O. Shildkrot , N. Kleeorin , A. Levy , I. Rogachevskii

Planet-forming discs in sufficiently strong UV environments lose gas in external photoevaporative winds. Dust can also be entrained within these winds, which has consequences for the possible solids reservoir for planet formation, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-09 S. Paine , T. J. Haworth , R. P. Nelson

Our previous linear analysis presents a new instability driven by dust coagulation in protoplanetary disks. The coagulation instability has the potential to concentrate dust grains into rings and assist dust coagulation and planetesimal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Ryosuke T. Tominaga , Hiroshi Kobayashi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

In circumstellar disks, the size of dust particles varies from submicron to several centimeters, while planetesimals have sizes of hundreds of kilometers. Therefore, various regimes for the aerodynamic drag between solid bodies and gas can…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-19 Olga P. Stoyanovskaya , Fedor A. Okladnikov , Eduard I. Vorobyov , Yaroslav N. Pavlyuchenkov , Vitaliy V. Akimkin

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

The settling of dust particles plays a critical role in the growth and dynamics of dust grains. We performed a detailed modeling of the ALMA continuum substructures for six highly inclined protoplanetary discs using radiative transfer…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 Juanita Antilen , Paola Pinilla , Dafa Li , Marion Villenave , Anibal Sierra , Yao Liu , Myriam Benisty , Christian Ginski

Theoretical models of grain growth predict dust properties to change as a function of protoplanetary disk radius, mass, age and other physical conditions. We lay down the methodology for a multi-wavelength analysis of (sub-)mm and cm…

More than a decade of dedicated experimental work on the collisional physics of protoplanetary dust has brought us to a point at which the growth of dust aggregates can - for the first time - be self-consistently and reliably modelled. In…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jürgen Blum