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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 6.

The vertical structure of the simulations, where x is the radial direction and z is the vertical 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-to-gas ratio ϵ. The second, third, and last rows correspond to the radial, azimuthal, and vertical components (Ax, Ay, and Az), respectively, of the aerodynamic flow A. The gray regions are where ϵ < 10−5. The black contours show where ϵ = 1 and 10. Since the dust is highly settled, the horizontal axis covers much more length than the vertical axis for easier visualization.

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