2 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
Triggered Fragmentation in Self-Gravitating Protoplanetary discs: Cooling, Mass Movement and Instability
Pratishtha Rawat, Farzana Meru, Rebecca Nealon
Previous three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of gravitationally unstable discs have shown that the formation of a single fragment can trigger the formation of subsequent f…
astro-ph.EP2026
Revisiting gravitational instability in protostellar discs with improved radiative cooling models
Alison K. Young, Ken Rice, Richard Booth +1
Young discs are expected to be significantly more massive than those observed at Myr and it is at this earliest stage that planet formation likely begins. Such massive discs m…