4 papers
Gas dynamics around dust asymmetries in turbulent disks
Lizxandra Flores-Rivera, Natascha Manger, Michiel Lambrechts +4
High-resolution ALMA observations have revealed asymmetric dust crescents in several protoplanetary disks, suggesting efficient dust trapping mechanisms potentially linked to gas v…
From planetesimals to planets with N-body simulations in the giant-planet formation region
Sebastian Lorek, Michiel Lambrechts
The cores of wide-orbit giant planets can form via pebble accretion if large planetesimals form in the outer regions of protoplanetary discs at sufficiently early times. Streaming…
Super-Earth formation in systems with cold giants
Claudia Danti, Michiel Lambrechts, Sebastian Lorek
Around our Sun, terrestrial planets did not grow beyond Earth in mass, while super-Earths are found to orbit approximately every other solar-like star. It remains unclear what divi…
UV-processing of icy pebbles in the outer parts of VSI-turbulent disks
Lizxandra Flores-Rivera, Michiel Lambrechts, Sacha Gavino +4
Icy dust particles emerge in star-forming clouds and are subsequently incorporated in protoplanetary disks, where they coagulate into larger pebbles up to mm in size. In the disk m…