Secular ring instability in the protoplanetary accretion disk

DOI10.1007/BF00056356MaRDI QIDQ1185075zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors E. Willerding

Publication date 28 June 1992

Published in Earth, Moon, and Planets (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00056356

zbMATH Keywords

axisymmetric density disturbancescompressible fluidNavier-Stokes equationsnegative diffusionplanetary ringsToomre's parameter

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N10) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30)

Review text

The aim of the present paper is to show that an accretion disk, the material of which satisfies the Navier-Stokes equations of a compressible fluid, is secularly unstable to axisymmetric density disturbances even if Toomre's parameter \(Q\) is greater than one. This instability process, which can also be interpreted as negative diffusion, immediatly leads to the formation of rings in the accretion disk as an intermediate step in the formation of planets, at least for the outer gaseous ones. We believe that the same process is also responsible for the ringlet-structure of planetary rings.

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