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Evidence for possible N2 basal flow beneath Pluto northern Sputnik Planitia
S. Alan Stern, Orkan Umurhan, Gary D. Clow +4
Sputnik Planitia (SP) on Pluto is a large, predominantly N2 ice-filled basin with a surface area of one million square kilometers; it is among the most spectacular surface features…
A Comparative Study of the Streaming Instability: Unstratified Models with Marginally Coupled Grains
Stanley A. Baronett, Wladimir Lyra, Hossam Aly +19
The streaming instability is a leading mechanism for concentrating solids and initiating planetesimal formation in protoplanetary disks. Although numerous studies have explored its…
Evidence For Turbulent Concentration In Particle-Laden Midplane Layers of Planet-Forming Disks
Orkan M. Umurhan, Debanjan Sengupta, Thomas Hartlep +2
We investigate the axisymmetric, weakly turbulent state of settled particle layers in a model of a globally laminar protoplanetary disk. We focus on conditions in which the large-s…
Bridging Unstratified and Stratified Simulations of the Streaming Instability for Grains
Jeonghoon Lim, Stanley A. Baronett, Jacob B. Simon +4
The streaming instability (SI), driven by aerodynamic coupling between solids and the gas under a global radial pressure gradient, concentrates solids and facilitates planetesimal…
Outbursts Upon Cooling of Low-Temperature Binary Mixtures: Experiments and Their Planetary Implications
S. M. Raposa, A. E. Engle, S. P. Tan +7
For many binary mixtures, the three-phase solid-liquid-vapor equilibrium curve has intermediate pressures that are higher than the pressure at the two pure triple points. This curv…
Rapid protoplanet formation in vortices: three-dimensional local simulations with selfgravity
Wladimir Lyra, Chao-Chin Yang, Jacob B. Simon +2
Disk vortices, seen in numerical simulations of protoplanetary disks and found observationally in ALMA and VLA images of these objects, are promising sites for planet formation giv…