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Polydisperse streaming instability - I. Tightly coupled particles and the terminal velocity approximation

Journal

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 499, Issue 3, Pages 4223-4238

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3162

Keywords

hydrodynamics; instabilities; planets and satellites: formation; protoplanetary discs

Funding

  1. STFC Consolidated grant [ST/P000592/1]
  2. QMUL Astronomy Unit
  3. Royal Society URF
  4. STFC [ST/P000592/1, 1949424, ST/T000341/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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We introduce a polydisperse version of the streaming instability (SI), where the dust component is treated as a continuum of sizes. We show that its behaviour is remarkably different from the monodisperse SI. We focus on tightly coupled particles in the terminal velocity approximation and show that unstable modes that grow exponentially on a dynamical time-scale exist. However, for dust to gas ratios much smaller than unity, they are confined to radial wavenumbers that are a factor similar to 1/(St) over bar larger than where the monodisperse SI growth rates peak. Here St < 1 is a suitable average Stokes number for the dust size distribution. For dust to gas ratios larger than unity, polydisperse modes that grow on a dynamical time-scale are found as well, similar as for the monodisperse SI and at similarly large wavenumbers. At smaller wavenumbers, where the classical monodisperse SI shows secular growth, no growing polydisperse modes are found under the terminal velocity approximation. Outside the region of validity for the terminal velocity approximation, we have found unstable epicyclic modes that grow on similar to 10(4) dynamical time-scales.

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