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Dispersal of protoplanetary disks by the combination of magnetically driven and photoevaporative winds

arXiv:2001.03949 · doi:10.1093/mnras/staa087

Abstract

We investigate the roles of magnetically driven disk wind (MDW) and thermally driven photoevaporative wind (PEW) in the long-time evolution of protoplanetary disks. We start simulations from the early phase in which the disk mass is around a star and track the evolution until the disk is completely dispersed. We incorporate the mass loss by PEW and the mass loss and magnetic braking (wind torque) by MDW, in addition to the viscous accretion, viscous heating, and stellar irradiation. We find that MDW and PEW respectively have different roles: magnetically driven wind ejects materials from an inner disk in the early phase, whereas photoevaporation has a dominant role in the late phase in the outer (au) disk. The disk lifetime, which depends on the combination of MDW, PEW, and viscous accretion, shows a large variation of -Myr; the gas is dispersed mainly by the MDW and the PEW in the cases with a low viscosity and the lifetime is sensitive to the mass-loss rate and torque of the MDW, whereas the lifetime is insensitive to these parameters when the viscosity is high. Even in disks with very weak turbulence, the cooperation of MDW and PEW enables the disk dispersal within a few Myr.

11 pages, 6 figures; corrected Table 2 and Equations (17) and (29); see Erratum at https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2748

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