Planetesimal Formation under Realistic Gas Dynamics: Dust Concentration in Turbulent and Windy Protoplanetary Disks

arXiv:2609.38921 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Code: https://github.com/PinghuiHuang/athena-multifluid-dust

Terminology

• Abundance — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ambipolar Diffusion — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Angular Momentum Transport — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Magnetic Flux Concentration — 2× in this paper
• Metallicity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Streaming Instability — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ambipolar Diffusion (AD) — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Angular Momentum Transport in Protoplanetary Disks
• DID PLANET FORMATION BEGIN INSIDE PERSISTENT GASEOUS VORTICES?
• A Comparative Study of the Streaming Instability: Unstratified Models with Marginally Coupled Grains
• Planetesimal formation via the streaming instability persists under turbulence driven by magnetorotational instability
• Hydro-, Magnetohydro-, and Dust-Gas Dynamics of Protoplanetary Disks

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