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most citedNon-ideal MHD simulation of HL Tau disk: formation of rings

46 citations · 191 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Dust and Gas Transport in Substructured Nonideal MHD Wind-Launching Disks with Embedded Planets

Chun-Yen Hsu, Zhi-Yun Li, Xiao Hu +2

Radial dust transport in protoplanetary disks is a key process shaping planet formation and disk chemistry. We investigate how this transport, along with gas transport, is regulate…

astro-ph.SR2025

Modeling YSO Jets in 3D II: Accretion-Fed, Star-Anchored Poynting Jets in the Low-Density Polar Cavity Powered by Disk-Magnetosphere Interaction

Yisheng Tu, Zhi-Yun Li, Zhaohuan Zhu +2

The origin of jets in young stellar objects (YSOs) remains a subject of active investigation. We present a 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulation of jet launching in YSOs, focusing on t…

astro-ph.EP2025

Dust Concentration Via Coupled Vertical Settling and Radial Migration in Substructured Non-Ideal MHD Discs and Early Planet Formation

Chun-Yen Hsu, Zhi-Yun Li, Yisheng Tu +2

We investigate the dynamics of dust concentration in actively accreting, substructured, non-ideal MHD wind-launching disks using 2D and 3D simulations incorporating pressureless du…

astro-ph.EP2024

Observational Signatures of Disk Winds in Protoplanetary Disks: Differentiating Magnetized and Photoevaporative Outflows With Fully Coupled Thermochemistry

Xiao Hu, Jaehan Bae, Zhaohuan Zhu +1

Magnetized winds and photoevaporative winds are critical in shaping protoplanetary disk evolution. Using 2D axisymmetric (magneto-)hydrodynamic simulations with Athena++ implementi…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

Rossby Wave Instability and Substructure Formation in 3D Non-Ideal MHD Wind-Launching Disks

Chun-Yen Hsu, Zhi-Yun Li, Yisheng Tu +2

Rings and gaps are routinely observed in the dust continuum emission of protoplanetary discs (PPDs). How they form and evolve remains debated. Previous studies have demonstrated th…

astro-ph.SR2024

YSO Jets Magnetocentrifugally Driven by Reconnecting Atmospheric Avalanche Accretion Streams Above Inner Circumstellar Disks

Yisheng Tu, Zhi-Yun Li, Zhaohuan Zhu +2

Fast, collimated jets are ubiquitous features of young stellar objects (YSOs). They are generally thought to be powered by disk accretion, but the details are debated. Through 2D (…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

3D Gap Opening in Non-Ideal MHD Protoplanetary Disks: Asymmetric Accretion, Meridional Vortices, and Observational Signatures

Xiao Hu, Zhi-Yun Li, Jaehan Bae +1

Recent high-angular resolution ALMA observations have revealed rich information about protoplanetary disks, including ubiquitous substructures and three-dimensional gas kinematics…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 8 cited

Gap Opening in Protoplanetary Disks: Gas Dynamics from Global Non-ideal MHD Simulations with Consistent Thermochemistry

Xiao Hu, Zhi-Yun Li, Lile Wang +2

Recent high angular resolution ALMA observations have revealed numerous gaps in protoplanetary disks. A popular interpretation has been that planets open them. Most previous invest…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 28 cited

Formation of Dust Rings and Gaps in Non-ideal MHD Disks Through Meridional Gas Flows

Xiao Hu, Zhi-Yun Li, Zhaohuan Zhu +1

Rings and gaps are commonly observed in the dust continuum emission of young stellar disks. Previous studies have shown that substructures naturally develop in the weakly ionized g…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 16 cited

Inside-Out Planet Formation. VII. Astrochemical Models of Protoplanetary Disks and Implications for Planetary Compositions

Arturo Cevallos Soto, Jonathan C. Tan, Xiao Hu +2

Inside-Out Planet Formation (IOPF) proposes that the abundant systems of close-in Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes form in situ at the pressure maximum associated with the Dead Zone…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 14 cited

Self-consistent ring model in protoplanetary disks: temperature dips and substructure formation

Shangjia Zhang, Xiao Hu, Zhaohuan Zhu +1

Rings and gaps are ubiquitous in protoplanetary disks. Larger dust grains will concentrate in gaseous rings more compactly due to stronger aerodynamic drag. However, the effects of…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 10 cited

A Tale of Two Grains: impact of grain size on ring formation via nonideal MHD processes

Xiao Hu, Lile Wang, Satoshi Okuzumi +1

Substructures in PPDs, whose ubiquity was unveiled by recent ALMA observations, are widely discussed regarding their possible origins. We carry out global full magnetohydrodynamic…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 46 cited

Non-ideal MHD simulation of HL Tau disk: formation of rings

Xiao Hu, Zhaohuan Zhu, Satoshi Okuzumi +4

Recent high resolution observations unveil ring structures in circumstellar disks. The origin of these rings has been widely investigated under various theoretical scenarios. In th…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 27 cited

Inside-Out Planet Formation. IV. Pebble Evolution and Planet Formation Timescales

Xiao Hu, Jonathan C. Tan, Zhaohuan Zhu +4

Systems with tightly-packed inner planets (STIPs) are very common. Chatterjee & Tan proposed Inside-Out Planet Formation (IOPF), an in situ formation theory, to explain these plane…

astro-ph.EP2015

An Overview of Inside-Out Planet Formation

Jonathan C. Tan, Sourav Chatterjee, Xiao Hu +2

The Kepler-discovered Systems with Tightly-packed Inner Planets (STIPs), typically with several planets of Earth to super-Earth masses on well-aligned, sub-AU orbits may host the m…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 37 cited

Inside-Out Planet Formation. III. Planet-disk interaction at the dead zone inner boundary

Xiao Hu, Zhaohuan Zhu, Jonathan C. Tan +1

The Kepler mission has discovered more than 4000 exoplanet candidates. Many are in systems with tightly packed inner planets. Inside-Out Planet Formation (IOPF) has been proposed t…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 2 cited

Pebble Delivery for Inside-Out Planet Formation

Xiao Hu, Jonathan C. Tan, Sourav Chatterjee

Inside-Out Planet Formation (IOPF; Chatterjee & Tan 2014, hereafter CT14) is a scenario for sequential in situ planet formation at the pressure traps of retreating dead zone inner…