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A 3D Hydrodynamics Study of Gravitational Instabilities in a Young Circumbinary Disc
Karna M. Desai, Thomas Y. Steiman-Cameron, Scott Michael +2
We present a 3D hydrodynamics study of gravitational instabilities (GIs) in a 0.14 M circumbinary protoplanetary disc orbiting a 1 M star and a 0.02 M…
Confronting 3 Dimensional Time-dependent Jet Simulations with HST Observations
Jan Staff, Brian Niebergal, Rachid Ouyed +2
We perform state-of-the-art, 3D, time-dependent simulations of magnetized disk winds, carried out to simulation scales of 60 Astronomical Units, in order to confront optical HST ob…
Giant Planet Formation by Disk Instability: A Comparison Simulation With An Improved Radiative Scheme
Kai Cai, Megan K. Pickett, Richard H. Durisen +1
There has been disagreement currently about whether cooling in protoplanetary disks can be sufficiently fast to induce the formation of gas giant protoplanets via gravitational ins…
The Effects of Metallicity and Grain Size on Gravitational Instabilities in Protoplanetary Disks
Kai Cai, Richard H. Durisen, Scott Michael +4
Observational studies show that the probability of finding gas giant planets around a star increases with the star's metallicity. Our latest simulations of disks undergoing gravita…
A Possible Hybrid Scenario for Gas Giant Planet Formation in Rings
Richard H. Durisen, Kai Cai, Annie C. Mejia +1
The core-accretion mechanism for gas giant formation may be too slow to create all observed gas giant planets during reasonable gas disk lifetimes, but it has yet to be firmly esta…