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The Thermal Regulation of Gravitational Instabilities in Protoplanetary Disks. IV. Simulations with Envelope Irradiation
Kai Cai, Richard H. Durisen, Aaron C. Boley +2
It is generally thought that protoplanetary disks embedded in envelopes are more massive and thus more susceptible to gravitational instabilities (GIs) than exposed disks. We prese…
The Thermal Regulation of Gravitational Instabilities in Protoplanetary Disks III. Simulations with Radiative Cooling and Realistic Opacities
A. C. Boley, A. C. Mejia, R. H. Durisen +3
This paper presents a fully three-dimensional radiative hydrodymanics simulation with realistic opacities for a gravitationally unstable 0.07 Msun disk around a 0.5 Msun star. We a…
The Thermal Regulation of Gravitational Instabilities in Protoplanetary Disks II. Extended Simulations with Varied Cooling Rates
Annie C. Mejia, Richard H. Durisen, Megan K. Pickett +1
In order to investigate mass transport and planet formation by gravitational instabilities (GIs), we have extended our 3-D hydrodynamic simulations of protoplanetary disks from a p…
The Thermal Regulation of Gravitational Instabilities in Disks Around Young Stars
Annie C. Mejia
Gravitational instabilities (GIs) are spiral distortions in a self-gravitating disk that appear wherever the local surface density and temperature become favorable for their growth…
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…