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astro-ph.EP2026

Exploration of the inner region of the system HD 142527

T. M. H. Tran, M. Langlois, O. Flasseur +6

HD 142527 is a well-studied intermediate-mass T Tauri star surrounded by a transitional disk with a large dust cavity, spiral structures, and an accreting low-mass companion. Despi…

astro-ph.EP2025

Radial modes of pressure bumps and dips in astrophysical discs

Armand Leclerc, Guillaume Laibe, Elliot Lynch +1

This study investigates the signatures of pressure extrema on global oscillations in discs. To this end, we use the framework of wave topology to establish a generalised local disp…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 8 cited

Exomoon search with VLTI/GRAVITY around the substellar companion HD 206893 B

Q. Kral, J. Wang, J. Kammerer +130

Direct astrometric detection of exomoons remains unexplored. This study presents the first application of high-precision astrometry to search for exomoons around substellar compani…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

Search for exocomets transits in Kepler light curves: Ten new transits identified

Pierre Dumond, Alain Lecavelier des Etangs, Flavien Kiefer +2

The Kepler mission, despite its conclusion over a decade ago, continues to offer a rich dataset for uncovering new astrophysical objects and phenomena. In this study, we conducted…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 6 cited

On inertial forces (indirect terms) in problems with a central body

Aurélien Crida, Clément Baruteau, Philippine Griveaud +14

Gravitational systems in astrophysics often comprise a body -- the primary -- that far outweights the others, and which is taken as the centre of the reference frame. A fictitious…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 12 cited

The COBREX archival survey: improved constraints on the occurrence rate of wide-orbit substellar companions. I. A uniform re-analysis of 400 stars from the GPIES survey

V. Squicciarini, J. Mazoyer, A. -M. Lagrange +4

Direct imaging (DI) campaigns are uniquely suited to probing the outer regions around young stars and looking for giant exoplanet and brown dwarf companions, hence providing key co…

astro-ph.EP2024

On the early thermal processing of planetesimals during and after the giant planet instability

A. Gkotsinas, D. Nesvorny, A. Guilbert-Lepoutre +2

Born as ice-rich planetesimals, cometary nuclei were gravitationally scattered onto their current orbits in the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud during the giant planets' dynamical i…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 8 cited

Giant planets population around B stars from the first part of the BEAST survey

P. Delorme, A. Chomez, V. Squicciarini +23

Exoplanets form from circumstellar protoplanetary discs whose fundamental properties (notably their extent, composition, mass, temperature and lifetime) depend on the host star pro…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 35 cited

Formation and evolution of a protoplanetary disk: combining observations, simulations and cosmochemical constraints

Alessandro Morbidelli, Yves Marrocchi, Adnan Ali Ahmad +12

We present a plausible and coherent view of the evolution of the protosolar disk that is consistent with the cosmochemical constraints and compatible with observations of other pro…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 17 cited

Compaction during fragmentation and bouncing produces realistic dust grain porosities in protoplanetary discs

Stéphane Michoulier, Jean-François Gonzalez, Daniel J. Price

Context: In protoplanetary discs, micron-sized dust grows to form millimetre- to centimetre-sized pebbles but encounters several barriers during its evolution. Collisional fragment…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 17 cited

Geomagnetic dipole stability and zonal flows controlled by mantle heat flux heterogeneities

Thomas Frasson, Natanaël Schaeffer, Henri-Claude Nataf +1

This work aims at acquiring a more complete understanding of how lateral heterogeneities of the CMB heat flux affect the geodynamo while other relevant parameters are pushed toward…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 5 cited

SPHERE RefPlanets: Search for epsilon Eridani b and warm dust

C. Tschudi, H. M. Schmid, M. Nowak +35

We carried out very deep VLT/SPHERE imaging polarimetry of the nearby system Eps Eri based on 38.5 hours of integration time with a 600 - 900 nm broadband filter to search for pola…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 17 cited

Probing the eccentricity in protostellar discs -- Modeling kinematics and morphologies

Enrico Ragusa, Elliot Lynch, Guillaume Laibe +2

Protostellar discs are mostly modelled as circular structures of gas and dust orbiting a protostar. However, a number of physical mechanisms, e.g. the presence of a (sub)stellar co…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 3 cited

Aeolian erosion in protoplanetary discs: How impactful it is on dust evolution?

Stéphane Michoulier, Jean-François Gonzalez, Evgeni Grishin +1

Context: Many barriers prevent dust to form planetesimals via coagulation in protoplanetary discs, such as bouncing, collisional fragmentation or aeolian erosion. Modelling dust an…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 9 cited

The impact of lake shape and size on lake breezes and air-lake exchanges on Titan

Audrey Chatain, Scot C. R. Rafkin, Alejandro Soto +5

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, has many lakes on its surface, formed mainly of liquid methane. Like water lakes on Earth, these methane lakes on Titan likely profoundly affect…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 18 cited

The GAPS program at TNG XLVII: The unusual formation history of V1298 Tau

D. Turrini, F. Marzari, D. Polychroni +33

Observational data from space and ground-based campaigns reveal that the 10-30 Ma old V1298 Tau star hosts a compact and massive system of four planets. Mass estimates for the two…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 9 cited

Eccentric debris disc morphologies II: Surface brightness variations from overlapping orbits in narrow eccentric discs

Joshua B. Lovell, Elliot M. Lynch

We present Paper II of the Eccentric Debris Disc Morphologies series to explore the effects that significant free and forced eccentricities have on high-resolution millimetre-wavel…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 9 cited

An imaged 15Mjup companion within a hierarchical quadruple system

A. Chomez, V. Squicciarini, A. -M. Lagrange +20

Since 2019, the direct imaging B-star Exoplanet Abundance Study (BEAST) at SPHERE@VLT has been scanning the surroundings of young B-type stars in order to ascertain the ultimate fr…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 11 cited

Evidence of Radius Inflation in Radiative GCM Models of WASP-76b due to the Advection of Potential Temperature

Felix Sainsbury-Martinez, Pascal Tremblin, Aaron David Schneider +6

Understanding the discrepancy between the radii of observed hot Jupiters and standard 'radiative-convective' models remains a hotly debated topic in the exoplanet community. One me…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 9 cited

Dust dynamics in current sheets within protoplanetary disks. I. Isothermal models including ambipolar diffusion and Ohmic resistivity

U. Lebreuilly, M. -M. Mac Low, B. Commerçon +1

Context: Chondrules originate from the reprocessing of dust grains. They are key building blocks of telluric planets, yet their formation, which must happen in strongly localized r…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 10 cited

Remarks on compressible convection in Super-Earths

Yanick Ricard, Thierry Alboussière

The radial density of planets increases with depth due to compressibility, leading to impacts on their convective dynamics. To account for these effects, including the presence of…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 6 cited

A Large Double-ring Disk around the Taurus M Dwarf J04124068+2438157

Feng Long, Bin B. Ren, Nicole L. Wallack +23

Planet formation imprints signatures on the physical structures of disks. In this paper, we present high-resolution (50 mas, 8 au) Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Arra…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 23 cited

How the origin of stars in the Galaxy impacts the composition of planetary building blocks

N. Cabral, A. Guilbert-Lepoutre, B. Bitsch +2

Context. Our Galaxy is composed of different stellar populations with varying chemical abundances, which are thought to imprint the composition of planet building blocks (PBBs). As…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 6 cited

On averaging eccentric orbits: Implications for the long-term thermal evolution of comets

Anastasios Gkotsinas, Aurélie Guilbert-Lepoutre, Sean N. Raymond

One of the common approximations in long-term evolution studies of small bodies is the use of circular orbits averaging the actual eccentric ones, facilitating the coupling of proc…