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Testing large-scale vortex formation against viscous layers in three-dimensional discs
Min-Kai Lin
Vortex formation through the Rossby wave instability (RWI) in protoplanetary discs has been invoked to play a role in planet formation theory, and suggested to explain the observat…
Steady state of dust distributions in disk vortices: Observational predictions and applications to transitional disks
Wladimir Lyra, Min-Kai Lin
The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) has been returning images of transitional disks in which large asymmetries are seen in the distribution of mm-sized dust in the outer disk…
Orbital migration of giant planets induced by gravitationally unstable gaps: the effect of planet mass
Ryan Cloutier, Min-Kai Lin
It has been suggested that long-period giant planets, such as HD 95086b and HR 8799bcde, may have formed through gravitational instability of protoplanetary discs. However, self-gr…
Instabilities at planetary gap edges in 3D self-gravitating disks
Min-Kai Lin
Numerical simulations are presented to study the stability of gaps opened by giant planets in 3D self-gravitating disks. In weakly self-gravitating disks, a few vortices develop at…