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Just a Phase? Weakening Vertical Shear Instability Explains Class II Disk Morphologies: Simulations with Dust Coagulation, Sedimentation, Thermal Relaxation, and Backreaction

  • Authors: Thomas Pfeil, Alexandros Ziampras, Shangjia Zhang, 尚嘉 张, Philip J. Armitage, Yan-Fei Jiang, 燕飞 姜

Thomas Pfeil et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1010 .

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Caption: Figure 2.

Spacetime diagrams visualizing the effects of different physical processes on the time evolution of the VSI and its effect on the dust particles. The top row shows the midplane maximum particle size. The bottom row shows the evolution of the midplane dust-to-gas ratio. The central row shows simulation snapshots toward the end of the simulation (dashed horizontal lines in row one and three), showing the respective quantities throughout the simulation domain.

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