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Azimuthal Dust Polarization from Aerodynamically Aligned Grains as Evidence for the Streaming Instability in Protoplanetary Disks

  • Authors: Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin, 哲宇 林, Jeonghoon Lim, 정훈 임, Jacob B. Simon, Zhi-Yun Li, Daniel Carrera, Manuel Fernández-López, Rachel Harrison, Rixin Li, 日新 李, Leslie W. Looney, Ian W. Stephens, Haifeng Yang

Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1006 .

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Caption: Figure 1.

Structure of the simulations, where x is the radial direction and y is the azimuthal direction. The left and right columns correspond to simulations with (τsZ) = (0.01, 0.03) and (0.03, 0.005), respectively. The top row is the dust surface density Σp, while the second row is the dust-to-gas ratio ϵ at the midplane. The third, fourth, and last rows correspond to the radial, azimuthal, and vertical components (Ax, Ay, and Az) of the aerodynamic flow A at the midplane. For reference, the median values of ∣A∣ at the midplane are 6 × 10−4cs and 2.8 × 10−3cs, respectively. In all panels, the black contours show where ϵ = 1. For (τsZ) = (0.01, 0.03), ϵ > 1 almost everywhere in the midplane. The gray regions for (τsZ) = (0.03, 0.005) in panels (f), (h), and (j) are where there is no dust present. The two simulations demonstrate that A show strong positive, azimuthal components (tailwind) where ϵ > 1.

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