Particle Trapping and Streaming Instability in Vortices in Protoplanetary Disks
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- Raettig, Natalie
- Klahr, Hubert
- Lyra, Wladimir
Abstract
We analyze the concentration of solid particles in vortices created and sustained by radial buoyancy in protoplanetary disks, e.g., baroclinic vortex growth. Besides the gas drag acting on particles, we also allow for back-reaction from dust onto the gas. This becomes important when the local dust-to-gas ratio approaches unity. In our two-dimensional, local, shearing sheet simulations, we see high concentrations of grains inside the vortices for a broad range of Stokes numbers, St. An initial dust-to-gas ratio of 1:100 can easily be reversed to 100:1 for St = 1.0. The increased dust-to-gas ratio triggers the streaming instability, thus counter-intuitively limiting the maximal achievable overdensities. We find that particle trapping inside vortices opens the possibility for gravity assisted planetesimal formation even for small particles (St = 0.01) and a low initial dust-to-gas ratio of 1:10^4, e.g., much smaller than in the previously studied magnetohydrodynamic zonal flow case.
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© 2015 The American Astronomical Society. Received 12 August 2013, accepted for publication 22 November 2014; Published 28 April 2015. The authors gratefully acknowledge the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) for providing computing time for a GCS Large Scale Project on the GCS share of the supercomputer JUQUEEN at Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC). GCS is the alliance of the three national supercomputing centres HLRS (Universität Stuttgart), JSC (Forschungszentrum Jülich), and LRZ (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the German State Ministries for Research of Baden-Württemberg (MWK), Bayern (StMWFK), and Nordrhein-Westfalen (MIWF).Attached Files
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- 58057
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20150605-135643040
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- German State Ministries for Research of Baden-Württemberg (MWK)
- Bayern (StMWFK)
- Nordrhein-Westfalen (MIWF)
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