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Hydro-, Magnetohydro-, and Dust-Gas Dynamics of Protoplanetary Disks
G. Lesur, B. Ercolano, M. Flock +16
The building of planetary systems is controlled by the gas and dust dynamics of protoplanetary disks. While the gas is simultaneously accreted onto the central star and dissipated…
Zombie Vortex Instability. III. Persistence with Nonuniform Stratification and Radiative Damping
Joseph Barranco, Suyang Pei, Philip Marcus
The Zombie Vortex Instability (ZVI) occurs in the dead zones of protoplanetary disks (PPDs) where perturbations excite baroclinic critical layers, generating "zombie" vortices and…
Zombie Vortex Instability. II. Thresholds to Trigger Instability and the Properties of Zombie Turbulence in the Dead Zones of Protoplanetary Disks
Philip S. Marcus, Suyang Pei, Chung-Hsiang Jiang +1
In Zombie Vortex Instability (ZVI), perturbations excite critical layers in stratified, rotating shear flow (as in protoplanetary disks), causing them to generate vortex layers, wh…
Zombie Vortex Instability I: A Purely Hydrodynamic Instability to Resurrect the Dead Zones of Protoplanetary Disks
Philip Marcus, Suyang Pei, Chung-Hsiang Jiang +3
There is considerable interest in hydrodynamic instabilities in dead zones of protoplanetary disks as a mechanism for driving angular momentum transport and as a source of particle…
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…
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…