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20072025
most citedLinear and nonlinear evolution of the vertical shear instability in accretion discs

445 citations · 2.5k across the 51 of their papers we have counts for

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52 papers

astro-ph.EP2025

From thermal to magnetic driving: spectral diagnostics of simulation-based magnetothermal disc wind models

Michael L. Weber, Eleftheria Sarafidou, Christian Rab +2

Disc winds driven by thermal and magnetic processes are thought to play a critical role in protoplanetary disc evolution. However, the relative contribution of each mechanism remai…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Gravito-turbulent bi-fluid protoplanetary discs: 1. An analytical perspective to stratification

S. Rendon Restrepo, U. Ziegler, M. Villenave +1

Context. In Class 0/I and the outskirts of Class II circumstellar discs, the self-gravity of gas significantly affects the disc's vertical hydrostatic equilibrium. The contribution…

astro-ph.EP2025

Global Hall-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of transition disks

Eleftheria Sarafidou, Oliver Gressel, Barbara Ercolano

Context. Transition disks (TDs) are a type of protoplanetary disk characterized by a central dust and gas cavity. The processes behind how these cavities are formed and maintained,…

astro-ph.EP2024

Toward an efficient second-order method for computing the surface gravitational potential on spherical-polar meshes

Oliver Gressel, Udo Ziegler

Astrophysical accretion discs that carry a significant mass compared with their central object are subject to the effect of self-gravity. In the context of circumstellar discs, thi…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

Hall-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of X-ray photoevaporative protoplanetary disc winds

Eleftheria Sarafidou, Oliver Gressel, Giovanni Picogna +1

Understanding the complex evolution of protoplanetary disks (PPDs) and their dispersal via energetic stellar radiation are prominent challenges in astrophysics. It has recently bee…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 2 cited

Alpha tensor and dynamo excitation in turbulent fluids with anisotropic conductivity fluctuations

Oliver Gressel, Günther Rüdiger, Detlef Elstner

A mean-field theory of the electrodynamics of a turbulent fluid is formulated under the assumption that the molecular electric conductivity is correlated with the turbulent velocit…