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most citedTheoretical Model of Hydrogen Line Emission from Accreting Gas Giants

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37 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Mid-infrared Imaging of SR 12 c with JWST/MIRI: Grain Growth in an Evolved Circumplanetary Disk

Ya-Lin Wu, Claire O. Finley, Brendan P. Bowler +13

The physical properties of circumplanetary disks offer insights into the formation of giant planets and their satellites. The circumbinary planetary-mass companion SR 12 c (1200 au…

astro-ph.EP2026

Impact of accretion variability on the CO emission of a disk around a very-low-mass star with JWST

C. Bergez-Casalou, B. Tabone, Y. Aoyama +14

Studying the structure of very-low-mass stars () protoplanetary disk is crucial to understand the formation of Earth-like planets. In this paper, we characteriz…

astro-ph.SR2026

Hydrogen Line Emission in Accreting Low-Mass Objects I: Spectral Analysis of Shock-Origin Narrow Component

Yuhiko Aoyama, Jun Hashimoto, Gabriel-Dominique Marleau +5

Hydrogen lines are widely used as tracers of stellar and planetary accretion. In classical T~Tauri stars, hydrogen lines are usually interpreted as arising from magnetospheric accr…

astro-ph.EP2026

Asymmetric, variable H line profile in planetary mass object SR 12 c

Jun Hashimoto, Yuhiko Aoyama, Michihiro Takami +1

Young, forming planetary-mass objects often exhibit clear signatures of ongoing mass accretion and are thought to accrete material through processes analogous to those operating in…

astro-ph.EP2026

Resolving protoplanetary H-alpha emission with the high-resolution spectrograph RISTRETTO

J. W. Blackman, C. Mordasini, G. -D. Marleau +4

Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered to date, but only a handful of them are young planets in the latter stages of their formation. H-alpha emission is a strong tracer of t…

astro-ph.EP2026

Ultraviolet Imaging of SR 12 c with HST/WFC3: Accretion and Variability of a Giant Planet at the End Stages of Growth

Claire O. Finley, Brendan P. Bowler, Ya-Lin Wu +12

Many details of the gas accretion phase during giant planet formation remain untested. We present new 0.2$\unicode{x2013}$0.7 m UV-through-red optical imaging of the young, wide…

astro-ph.EP2026

Hourly radio variability of PDS70c from time-differential photometry

Simon Casassus, Miguel Carcamo, Oriana Dominguez-Jamett +5

The radio emission mechanisms from accreting protoplanets, and their variability, link observations and physical properties. We revisit the variability of the ~343GHz (ALMA Band7)…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 4 cited

ExoplaNeT accRetion mOnitoring sPectroscopic surveY (ENTROPY) - II. Time series of Balmer line profiles of Delorme 1(AB)b

Dorian Demars, Mickaël Bonnefoy, Catherine Dougados +14

Accretion processes in the planetary-mass regime remain poorly constrained, yet they strongly influence planet formation, evolution, and the composition of circumplanetary disks (C…

astro-ph.EP2025

Detectability of resolved hydrogen lines from the accretion shock at gas giants and their circumplanetary discs

Gabriel-Dominique Marleau, Thomas Henning, Roy van Boekel +3

Fewer gas giants have been caught in their accretion phase than mature ones are known. Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) instruments will have a higher sensitivity and a smaller inne…

astro-ph.EP2025

Characterizing the Time Variability of 2M1207 A+b with JWST NIRSpec/PRISM

Arthur D. Adams, Yifan Zhou, Gabriel Dominique-Marleau +13

We present JWST NIRSpec/PRISM IFU time-resolved observations of 2M1207 A and b (TWA 27), a Myr binary system consisting of a K sub-stellar primary hosting a $…

astro-ph.EP2025

VLT/MUSE Detection of the AB Aurigae b Protoplanet with Spectroscopy

Thayne Currie, Jun Hashimoto, Yuhiko Aoyama +6

We analyze high-contrast, medium-spectral-resolution observations of the star AB Aurigae using the Very Large Telescope's Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE). In m…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 7 cited

Multi-frequency observations of PDS 70c: Radio emission mechanisms in the circum-planetary environment

Oriana Domínguez-Jamett, Simon Casassus, Hauyu Baobab Liu +7

PDS 70c is a source of Ha emission and variable sub-mm signal. Understanding its emission mechanisms may enable observations of accretion rates and physical conditions in the circu…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 17 cited

Evidence for Variable Accretion onto PDS 70 c and Implications for Protoplanet Detections

Yifan Zhou, Brendan P. Bowler, Aniket Sanghi +14

Understanding the processes of planet formation and accretion in young systems is essential to unraveling the initial conditions of planetary systems. The PDS 70 system, which host…

astro-ph.EP2024

Analyses of Multiple Balmer Emission Lines from Accreting Brown Dwarfs and Very Low Mass Stars

Jun Hashimoto, Yuhiko Aoyama

A planetary growth rate, a.k.a., the mass accretion rate, is a fundamental parameter in planet formation, as it determines a planet's final mass. Planetary mass accretion rates hav…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 11 cited

Exoplanet accretion monitoring spectroscopic survey (ENTROPY) I. Evidence for magnetospheric accretion in the young isolated planetary-mass object 2MASS J11151597+1937266

Gayathri Viswanath, Simon C. Ringqvist, Dorian Demars +7

Accretion among planets is a poorly understood phenomenon, due to lack of both observational and theoretical studies. Detection of emission lines from accreting gas giants facilita…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 8 cited

Analyzing JWST/NIRSpec Hydrogen Line Detections at TWA 27B: Constraining Accretion Properties and Geometry

Yuhiko Aoyama, Gabriel-Dominique Marleau, Jun Hashimoto

Hydrogen lines from forming planets are crucial for understanding planet formation. However, the number of planetary hydrogen line detections is still limited. Recent JWST/NIRSpec…

astro-ph.EP2024

Testing magnetospheric accretion as an H emission mechanism of embedded giant planets: The case study for the disk exhibiting meridional flow around HD 163296

Yasuhiro Hasegawa, Taichi Uyama, Jun Hashimoto +7

Recent high-sensitivity observations reveal that accreting giant planets embedded in their parental circumstellar disks can emit H at their final formation stages. While the ori…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 13 cited

Revisiting the Helium and Hydrogen Accretion Indicators at TWA 27B: Weak Mass Flow at Near-Freefall Velocity

Gabriel-Dominique Marleau, Yuhiko Aoyama, Jun Hashimoto +1

TWA 27B (2M1207b) is the first directly-imaged planetary-mass (MP ~ 5 MJ) companion (Chauvin et al. 2004) and was observed at 0.9--5.3 micron with JWST/NIRSpec (Luhman et al. 2023)…

astro-ph.SR2023

The Comprehensive Archive of Substellar and Planetary Accretion Rates

S. K. Betti, K. B. Follette, K. Ward-Duong +11

Accretion rates () of young stars show a strong correlation with object mass (); however, extension of the relation into the substellar regime is less certa…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 27 cited

High-resolution [O I] line spectral mapping of TW Hya supportive of a magnetothermal wind

Min Fang, Lile Wang, Gregory J. Herczeg +6

Disk winds are thought to play a critical role in the evolution and dispersal of protoplanetary disks. A primary diagnostic of this physics is emission from the wind, especially in…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 34 cited

Emission line variability of young 10-30 Mjup companions : I. The case of GQ Lup b and GSC 06214-00210 b

Dorian Demars, Mickael Bonnefoy, Catherine Dougados +10

Emission lines indicative of active accretion have been seen on a handful of low-mass companions (M < 30 MJup) to stars. Line variability is ubiquitous on stellar accretors but has…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 6 cited

Planetary line-to-accretion luminosity scaling relations: Extrapolating to higher-order hydrogen lines

Gabriel-Dominique Marleau, Yuhiko Aoyama

Aoyama et al. (2021, ApJL) provided scaling relations between hydrogen-line luminosities and the accretion luminosity for planetary-mass objects. These fits should be an improvemen…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 40 cited

Three-dimensional Global Simulations of Type-II Planet-disk Interaction with a Magnetized Disk Wind: I. Magnetic Flux Concentration and Gap Properties

Yuhiko Aoyama, Xuening Bai

Giant planets embedded in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) can create annulus density gaps around their orbits in the type-II regime, potentially responsible for the ubiquity of annular…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 24 cited

Forbidden emission lines in protostellar outflows and jets with MUSE

Lizxandra Flores-Rivera, Mario Flock, Nicolás Kurtovic +14

Forbidden emission lines in protoplanetary disks are a key diagnostic in studies of the evolution of the disk and the host star. We report spatially resolved emission lines, [OI] 6…