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We explore the properties of cold gravitoturbulent accretion disks - non-fragmenting disks hovering on the verge of gravitational instability - using a realistic prescription for the effective viscosity caused by gravitational torques. This…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-02 Roman R. Rafikov

Turbulence, self-gravity, and cooling convert most of the interstellar medium into cloudy structures that form stars. Turbulence compresses the gas into clouds directly and it moves pre-existing clouds around passively when there are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bruce G. Elmegreen

Planets are built from planetesimals: solids larger than a kilometer which grow by colliding pairwise. Planetesimals themselves are unlikely to form by two-body collisions; sub-km objects have gravitational fields individually too weak, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. Chiang , A. Youdin

A new idea is proposed for the origin of bulges in spiral galaxies. Numerical simulations for the protogalactic collapse suggest strongly that galactic bulges have been assembled from massive clumps formed in the galactic disks in their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Masafumi Noguchi

A detailed understanding of the physics of star and planet formation requires study of individual objects as well as statistical assessment of global properties and evolutionary trends. Observational investigations of circumstellar material…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lynne A. Hillenbrand

Since the 1990's, protoplanetary disks and planetary disks have been intensively observed from the optical to the millimetre wavelength and many models have been developed to investigate their gas and dust properties and dynamics. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anne Dutrey , Alain Lecavelier des Etangs , Jean-Charles Augereau

It is quite likely that self-gravity will play an important role in the evolution of accretion discs, in particular those around young stars, and those around supermassive black holes. We summarise, here, our current understanding of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Ken Rice

In weakly ionized discs turbulence can be generated through the vertical shear instability (VSI). Embedded planets feel a stochastic component in the torques acting on them which can impact their migration. In this work we study the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Moritz Stoll , Giovanni Picogna , Wilhelm Kley

Vortex formation through the Rossby wave instability (RWI) in protoplanetary discs has been invoked to play a role in planet formation theory, and suggested to explain the observation of large dust asymmetries in several transitional discs.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Min-Kai Lin

In this paper I describe numerical calculations of the motion of particles in a disk about a solar-mass object perturbed by a planet on a circular orbit with mass greater than 0.001 of the stellar mass. A simple algorithm for simulating…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 R. H. Sanders

We perform a comparative numerical hydrodynamics study of embedded protostellar disks formed as a result of the gravitational collapse of cloud cores of distinct mass (M_cl=0.2--1.7 M_sun) and ratio of rotational to gravitational energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Eduard I. Vorobyov

We investigate the properties of single vortices and of vortex lattice in a rotating dipolar condensate. We show that vortices in this system possess many novel features induced by the long-range anisotropic dipolar interaction between…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Yi , H. Pu

Dusty disks around young stars are formed out of interstellar dust that consists of amorphous, submicrometre grains. Yet the grains found in comets and meteorites, and traced in the spectra of young stars, include large crystalline grains…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 Dejan Vinkovic

We investigate the stability, nonlinear development and equilibrium structure of vortices in a background shearing Keplerian flow. We make use of high-resolution global two-dimensional compressible hydrodynamic simulations. We introduce the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Bodo , A. Tevzadze , G. Chagelishvili , A. Mignone , P. Rossi , A. Ferrari

We find an instability resulting in generation of large-scale vorticity in a fast rotating small-scale turbulence or turbulent convection with inhomogeneous fluid density along the rotational axis in anelastic approximation. The large-scale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-11 Igor Rogachevskii , Nathan Kleeorin

The interplay between stellar multiplicity and protoplanetary discs represents a cornerstone of modern astrophysics, offering key insights into the processes of planet formation. Protoplanetary discs act as cradles for planetary systems,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-03 Nicolás Cuello , Antoine Alaguero , Pedro P. Poblete

The great diversity of extrasolar planetary systems has challenged our understanding of how planets form, and how their orbits evolve as they form. Among the various processes that may account for this diversity, the gravitational…

Protoplanets can interact with their natal disks and generate gas and dust substructures such as gaps and rings. However, how these planet-induced substructures affect the disk temperature, and how that in turn influences the substructures,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-04 Kan Chen , Paola Pinilla , Mihkel Kama

We study the effect of disc self-gravity on vortex-forming instabilities associated with gaps opened by a Saturn mass planet in a protoplanetary disc. It is shown analytically and confirmed through linear calculations that vortex modes with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Min-Kai Lin , John Papaloizou

(Abriged) The existence of large-scale and long-lived 2D vortices in accretion discs has been debated for more than a decade. They appear spontaneously in several 2D disc simulations and they are known to accelerate planetesimal formation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Lesur , J. C. B. Papaloizou