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astro-ph.EP2015★ 169 cited
Cooling Requirements for the Vertical Shear Instability in Protoplanetary Disks
Min-Kai Lin, Andrew N. Youdin
The vertical shear instability (VSI) offers a potential hydrodynamic mechanism for angular momentum transport in protoplanetary disks (PPDs). The VSI is driven by a weak vertical g…
astro-ph.EP2015★ 25 cited
One-armed spirals in locally isothermal, radially structured self-gravitating discs
Min-Kai Lin
We describe a new mechanism that leads to the destabilisation of non-axisymmetric waves in astrophysical discs with an imposed radial temperature gradient. This might apply, for ex…
astro-ph.EP2015★ 26 cited
Gap formation and stability in non-isothermal protoplanetary discs
Robert Les, Min-Kai Lin
Several observations of transition discs show lopsided dust-distributions. A potential explanation is the formation of a large-scale vortex acting as a dust-trap at the edge of a g…