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most citedPolydisperse Streaming Instability III. Dust evolution encourages fast instability

35 citations · 67 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.EP20228 cited

Dynamics of Dusty Vortices II: Stability of 2D dust laden vortices

Francesco Lovascio, Sijme-Jan Paardekooper, Colin McNally

Vortices have long been speculated to play a role in planet formation, via the collection of dust in the pressure maxima that arise at the cores of vortices in protoplanetary discs…

astro-ph.EP202124 cited

Polydisperse Streaming Instability II. Methods for solving the linear stability problem

Sijme-Jan Paardekooper, Colin P. McNally, Francesco Lovascio

Occurring in protoplanetary discs composed of dust and gas, streaming instabilities are a favoured mechanism to drive the formation of planetesimals. The Polydispserse Streaming In…

astro-ph.EP202135 cited

Polydisperse Streaming Instability III. Dust evolution encourages fast instability

Colin P. McNally, Francesco Lovascio, Sijme-Jan Paardekooper

Planet formation via core accretion requires the production of km-sized planetesimals from cosmic dust. This process must overcome barriers to simple collisional growth, for which…

astro-ph.EP2020

Polydisperse Streaming Instability I. Tightly coupled particles and the terminal velocity approximation

Sijme-Jan Paardekooper, Colin P. McNally, Francesco Lovascio

We introduce a polydisperse version of the streaming instability, where the dust component is treated as a continuum of sizes. We show that its behaviour is remarkably different fr…

astro-ph.EP2019

Dynamics of Dusty Vortices I: Extensions and limitations of the terminal velocity approximation

Francesco Lovascio, Sijme-Jan Paardekooper

Motivated by the stability of dust laden vortices, in this paper we study the terminal velocity approximation equations for a gas coupled to a pressureless dust fluid and present a…