title: The interplay of gas, dust, and magnetorotational instability in magnetized protoplanetary disks
creator: Delage, Timmy N.
subject: 520
subject: 520 Astronomy and allied sciences
description: The rich diversity of exoplanets discovered in various physical environments clearly  shows that planet formation is an efficient process with multiple outcomes. To un-  derstand the emergence of newborn planets, one can rewind the clock of planetary  systems by investigating the formation and evolution of their natal environment,  the so-called protoplanetary disks. In the core accretion scenario, rocky planets  such as the Earth are thought to be formed from cosmic dust particles that grow  into pebbles and planetesimals, the building blocks of planets, later assembling to-  gether. An intricate puzzle in this theory is how exactly these building blocks are  formed and kept long enough in the natal protoplanetary disk.  Protoplanetary disks are weakly magnetized accretion disks that are subject to  the magnetorotational instability (MRI). It is to date one of the main candidates  for explaining their turbulence and angular momentum transport. The nonideal  magnetohydrodynamic effects prevent the MRI from operating everywhere in the  protoplanetary disk, leading to MRI active regions with high turbulence and non-  MRI regions with low turbulence. It has been hypothesized that these variations  in the disk turbulence can lead to pressure maxima where dust particles can be  trapped. In these so-called dust traps, dust particles can grow efficiently into peb-  bles and potentially planetesimals. Yet, it is still an open question how this MRI-  powered mechanism shapes the secular evolution of protoplanetary disks, and how  it is involved in the first steps of planet formation. It is because the interplay of gas  evolution, dust evolution (dynamics and grain growth processes combined) and  MRI-driven turbulence over millions of years has never been investigated.  The central goal of this thesis is to bridge the gap in the core accretion scenario  of planet formation by building the very first unified disk evolution framework  that captures self-consistently this interplay. The unique approach adopted in this  thesis leads to an exciting new pathway for the generation of spontaneous dust  traps everywhere in the protoplanetary disk, which can be potential birth-sites for  planets by forming and keeping their necessary building blocks.
date: 2023
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/33991/1/PhD_Dissertation_Timmy_Delage.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00033991
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-339912
identifier:   Delage, Timmy N.  (2023) The interplay of gas, dust, and magnetorotational instability in magnetized protoplanetary disks.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/33991/
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language: eng