4 papers
Evolution of dust in a protoplanetary disc driven by stellar flybys: implications for the streaming instability
Wei-Shan Su, Jeremy L. Smallwood, Min-Kai Lin +2
Stellar flybys are a common dynamical process in young stellar clusters and can significantly reshape protoplanetary discs. However, their impact on dust dynamics remains poorly un…
Dust dynamics in radially convective regions of protoplanetary disks
Min-Kai Lin, Marius Lehmann
Hydrodynamic instabilities likely operate in protoplanetary disks. One candidate, Convective Overstability (COS), can be triggered in regions with a negative radial entropy gradien…
Observational Signatures of Dust Traffic Jams in Polar-Aligning Circumbinary Disks
Jeremy L. Smallwood, Rebecca Nealon, Hsi-Wei Yen +4
Misaligned circumbinary disks will produce dust traffic jams during alignment or anti-alignment to the binary orbital plane. We conduct a hydrodynamical simulation of an initially…
Polar alignment of a dusty circumbinary disc -- II. Application to 99 Herculis
Jeremy L. Smallwood, Min-Kai Lin, Rebecca Nealon +2
We investigate the formation of dust traffic jams in polar-aligning circumbinary discs. In our first paper, we found as the circumbinary disc evolves towards a polar configuration…