This is a correction to: Amelia J. Cordwell, Roman R. Rafikov, Early stages of gap opening by planets in protoplanetary discs, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 534, Issue 2, October 2024, Pages 1394–1413, 10.1093/mnras/stae2089.

In the originally published version of the manuscript fig. 1 was inadvertently replaced with a supplementary figure.

The correct Fig. 1 is:

Instead of:

This error has been corrected in the paper.

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