most citedForming Planetesimals by Gravitational Instability: I. The Role of the Richardson Number in Triggering the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability

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astro-ph.EP2010★ 26 cited

Forming Planetesimals by Gravitational Instability: II. How Dust Settles to its Marginally Stable State

Aaron T. Lee, Eugene Chiang, Xylar Asay-Davis +1

Dust at the midplane of a circumstellar disk can become gravitationally unstable and fragment into planetesimals if the local dust-to-gas density ratio mu is sufficiently high. We…

astro-ph.EP2010★ 43 cited

Forming Planetesimals by Gravitational Instability: I. The Role of the Richardson Number in Triggering the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability

Aaron T. Lee, Eugene Chiang, Xylar Asay-Davis +1

Gravitational instability (GI) of a dust-rich layer at the midplane of a gaseous circumstellar disk is one proposed mechanism to form planetesimals, the building blocks of rocky pl…