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Rossby wave instability does not require sharp resistivity gradients
W. Lyra, N. Turner, C. McNally
Rossby wave instability (RWI) at dead zone boundaries may play an important role in planet formation. Viscous hydrodynamics results suggest RWI is excited only when the viscosity c…
Temperature Fluctuations driven by Magnetorotational Instability in Protoplanetary Disks
Colin P. McNally, Alexander Hubbard, Chao-Chin Yang +1
The magnetorotational instability (MRI) drives magnetized turbulence in sufficiently ionized regions of protoplanetary disks, leading to mass accretion. The dissipation of the pote…
On Vertically Global, Horizontally Local Models for Astrophysical Disks
Colin P. McNally, Martin E. Pessah
Disks with a barotropic equilibrium structure, for which the pressure is only a function of the density, rotate on cylinders in the presence of a gravitational potential, so that t…
Radial Stresses and Energy Transport in Accretion Disks
Alexander Hubbard, Colin P. McNally, Jeffrey S. Oishi +2
Early in the study of viscous accretion disks it was realized that energy transfers from distant sources must be important, not least because the flow at the disk midplane in the b…