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Abstract EANA2026-100



Bridging the gap between young and mature planetary systems

Zijia Cui (1) and Ewa Szuszkiewicz (2)
(1) School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University, China (2) Institute of Physics and CASA*, University of Szczecin, Poland


We investigate dust substructure formation induced by two super-Earths migrating in a low-viscosity disk with single-size dust grains selected  from the submillimeter to the centimeter range of diameters. The orbital evolution of planets takes place in the vicinity of the 2:1 commensurability, which allows to determine, in addition to the dust substructure properties, the dust impact on the rate of migration, the resonance capture, the libration overstability and the outcome of passage through the commensurability. Using two-dimensional two-fluid hydrodynamical simulations with dust feedback and dust diffusion considered, we identify two specific regions in  the disk where the accumulation of dust particles is significant, leading  to dust substructure formation with the dust-to-gas ratio values close to or  even higher than 1 for large grains.  The first region, with a narrow dust ring, is found between the planetary orbits and the second one, with a broad feature, evolving in time in a multiple ring substructure, is situated outside the orbit of the outer planet. Our results show that these two locations are favorable for planetesimal formation. We discuss the properties of the dust substructures formed in our simulations and outline possible consequences of their evolution for the observed architectures of multi-planetary systems.