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Streaming instabilities in accreting protoplanetary disks: A parameter study
Shiang-Chih Wang, Min-Kai Lin
The streaming instability (SI) is currently the leading candidate for triggering planetesimal formation in protoplanetary disks. Recently, a novel variation, the `azimuthal-drift'…
Shoulder of Dust Rings Formed by Planet-disk Interactions
Jiaqing Bi, Min-Kai Lin
Recent analyses of mm-wavelength protoplanetary disk observations have revealed several emission excesses on the previously identified dust rings, referred to as dust shoulders. Th…
Convective overstability in radially global protoplanetary disks I -- Pure gas dynamics
Marius Lehmann, Min-Kai Lin
Protoplanetary disks are prone to several hydrodynamic instabilities. One candidate, Convective Overstability (COS), can drive radial semi-convection that may influence dust dynami…
Distinguishing Magnetized Disc Winds from Turbulent Viscosity through Substructure Morphology in Planet-forming Discs
Yinhao Wu, Yi-Xian Chen, Haochang Jiang +5
The traditional paradigm of viscosity-dominated evolution of protoplanetary discs has been recently challenged by magnetized disc winds. However, distinguishing wind-driven and tur…
Instabilities in dusty non-isothermal proto-planetary discs
Marius Lehmann, Min-Kai Lin
Protoplanetary discs (PPDs) can host a number of instabilities that may partake directly or indirectly in the process of planetesimal formation. These include the Vertical Shear In…
How to form compact & other longer-lived planet-induced vortices: VSI, planet migration, or re-triggers, but not feedback
Michael Hammer, Min-Kai Lin
Past computational studies of planet-induced vortices have shown that the dust asymmetries associated with these vortices can be long-lived enough that they should be much more com…
Gap-opening Planets Make Dust Rings Wider
Jiaqing Bi, Min-Kai Lin, Ruobing Dong
As one of the most commonly observed disk substructures, dust rings from high-resolution disk surveys appear to have different radial widths. Recent observations on PDS 70 and AB A…
Nonlinear evolution of streaming instabilities in accreting protoplanetary disks
Chun-Yen Hsu, Min-Kai Lin
The streaming instability (SI) is one of the most promising candidates for triggering planetesimal formation by producing dense dust clumps that undergo gravitational collapse. Und…
Revealing the drag instability in one-fluid nonideal MHD simulations of a 1D isothermal C-shock
Pin-Gao Gu, Che-Yu Chen, Emma Shen +2
C-type shocks are believed to be ubiquitous in turbulent molecular clouds thanks to ambipolar diffusion. We investigate whether the drag instability in 1D isothermal C-shocks, infe…
Using Bayesian Deep Learning to infer Planet Mass from Gaps in Protoplanetary Disks
Sayantan Auddy, Ramit Dey, Min-Kai Lin +2
Planet induced sub-structures, like annular gaps, observed in dust emission from protoplanetary disks provide a unique probe to characterize unseen young planets. While deep learni…
Streaming instabilities in accreting and magnetized laminar protoplanetary disks
Min-Kai Lin, Chun-Yen Hsu
The streaming instability is one of the most promising pathways to the formation of planetesimals from pebbles. Understanding how this instability operates under realistic conditio…
DPNNet-2.0 Part I: Finding hidden planets from simulated images of protoplanetary disk gaps
Sayantan Auddy, Ramit Dey, Min-Kai Lin +1
The observed sub-structures, like annular gaps, in dust emissions from protoplanetary disk, are often interpreted as signatures of embedded planets. Fitting a model of planetary ga…
On the Vertical Shear Instability in Magnetized Protoplanetary Disks
Can Cui, Min-Kai Lin
The vertical shear instability (VSI) is a robust phenomenon in irradiated protoplanetary disks (PPDs). While there is extensive literature on the VSI in the hydrodynamic limit, PPD…
Which planets trigger longer-lived vortices: low-mass or high-mass?
Michael Hammer, Min-Kai Lin, Kaitlin M. Kratter +1
Recent ALMA observations have found many protoplanetary discs with rings that can be explained by gap-opening planets less massive than Jupiter. Meanwhile, recent studies have sugg…
Stratified and vertically-shearing streaming instabilities in protoplanetary disks
Min-Kai Lin
Under the right conditions, the streaming instability between imperfectly coupled dust and gas is a powerful mechanism for planetesimal formation as it can concentrate dust grains…
A Machine Learning model to infer planet masses from gaps observed in protoplanetary disks
Sayantan Auddy, Min-Kai Lin
Observations of bright protoplanetary disks often show annular gaps in their dust emission. One interpretation of these gaps is disk-planet interaction. If so, fitting models of pl…
Migrating Low-Mass Planets in Inviscid Dusty Protoplanetary Discs
He-Feng Hsieh, Min-Kai Lin
Disc-driven planet migration is integral to the formation of planetary systems. In standard, gas-dominated protoplanetary discs, low-mass planets or planetary cores undergo rapid i…
How efficient is the streaming instability in viscous protoplanetary disks?
Kan Chen, Min-Kai Lin
The streaming instability is a popular candidate for planetesimal formation by concentrating dust particles to trigger gravitational collapse. However, its robustness against physi…
Vortex instabilities triggered by low-mass planets in pebble-rich, inviscid protoplanetary discs
Arnaud Pierens, Min-Kai Lin, Sean Raymond
In the innermost regions of protoplanerary discs, the solid-to-gas ratio can be increased considerably by a number of processes, including photoevaporative and particle drift. MHD…
Dust settling against hydrodynamic turbulence in protoplanetary discs
Min-Kai Lin
Enhancing the local dust-to-gas ratio in protoplanetary discs is a necessary first step to planetesimal formation. In laminar discs, dust settling is an efficient mechanism to rais…
Observational diagnostics of elongated planet-induced vortices with realistic planet formation timescales
Michael Hammer, Paola Pinilla, Kaitlin M. Kratter +1
Gap-opening planets can generate dust-trapping vortices that may explain some of the latest discoveries of high-contrast crescent-shaped dust asymmetries in transition discs. While…
Vortex survival in 3D self-gravitating accretion discs
Min-Kai Lin, Arnaud Pierens
Large-scale, dust-trapping vortices may account for observations of asymmetric protoplanetary discs. Disc vortices are also potential sites for accelerated planetesimal formation b…
On the evolution of vortices in massive protoplanetary discs
Arnaud Pierens, Min-Kai Lin
It is expected that a pressure bump can be formed at the inner edge of a dead-zone, and where vortices can develop through the Rossby Wave Instability (RWI). It has been suggested…
Dusty disc-planet interaction with dust-free simulations
Jhih-Wei Chen, Min-Kai Lin
Protoplanets may be born into dust-rich environments if planetesimals formed through streaming or gravitational instabilities, or if the protoplanetary disc is undergoing mass loss…