Planet formation is thought to begin with the growth of dust particles in protoplanetary disks from micrometer to millimeter and centimeter sizes. Dust growth is hindered by a number of growth barriers, according to dust evolution theory, while observational evidence indicates that somehow these barriers must have been overcome. The observational evidence of dust traps, in particular the Oph IRS 48 disk, with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has changed our view of the dust growth process. In this article I review the history of dust trapping in models and observations.
@article{arxiv.1902.00005,
title = {Dust trapping in protoplanetary disks},
author = {Nienke van der Marel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.00005},
year = {2019}
}
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Perspective article in Star Formation Newsletter 308, August 2018 (http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~reipurth/newsletter/newsletter308.pdf). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1809.06403