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20142026
most citedA dust and gas cavity in the disc around CQ Tau revealed by ALMA

61 citations · 234 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The Magnetized Universe: From planet-forming disks to the high-redshift universe

Josep M Girart, Gary Fuller, Wouter Vlemmings +32

The interstellar medium (ISM) is magnetized at all scales and phases in our Galaxy and other galaxies across the Universe. Spectro-polarimetric millimetre observations are essentia…

astro-ph.EP2026

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). XXV. Inclination-Induced Minor-Axis Brightness Asymmetries Reveal Limited Dust Settling in Embedded Protostellar Disks

Sidhant Kumar Suar, Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin, Zhi-Yun Li +9

How and when dust settles in young protostellar disks is a key open question for the dust concentration needed to form planetesimals and, ultimately, planets. However, directly mea…

astro-ph.SR2026

Magnetic Fields and Asymmetric Accretion in the Class 0 Protostellar System L1527 IRS

Hanju Nam, Woojin Kwon, Youngwoo Choi +2

Magnetic fields play a crucial role in regulating the collapse of dense molecular clouds, shaping the early stages of protostellar evolution. We present polarization observations i…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALOHA IRDCs Molecular Line Follow-up: I. Gas properties and kinematics

Jinjin Xie, Yaoting Yan, Zhiyuan Ren +109

Infrared Dark Clouds are ideal sites for investigating the initial conditions of massive star and cluster formation. The A Lei Of the Habitat and Assembly of Infrared Dark Clouds (…

astro-ph.SR2026

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). XXIV: Systematic Investigation of Disk Structures based on Visibility Analysis

Mayank Narang, Jerry Xu, Leslie W. Looney +11

The dust continuum emission from young protostellar disks encodes key information about their mass distribution and early evolution, yet uniform high-resolution comparative studies…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 2 cited

HOPS-288: A Laboratory for Complex Organics in Proto-multiple Systems

Shih-Ying Hsu, Nadia M. Murillo, Chin-Fei Lee +21

Complex organic molecules (COMs) in young stellar objects (YSOs) have attracted significant attention in recent years due to their potential connection to pre-biotic chemistry and…

astro-ph.SR2025

A Bridge between Young Stars Formed by Gravitational Interaction

Youngwoo Choi, Woojin Kwon, Leslie W. Looney +1

The majority of stars are born in clustered environments. In these environments, close encounters between young stars with planet-forming disks are expected to occur frequently. Ho…

astro-ph.SR2025

Multi-band ALMA Polarization Observations of BHB07-11 Reveal Aligned Dust Grains in Complex Spiral Arm Structures

Austen Fourkas, Leslie W. Looney, Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin +8

Polarization-mode observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are powerful tools for studying the dust grain populations in circumstellar disks. Many…

astro-ph.SR2025

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). XIX. Structures of molecular outflows

Anton Feeney-Johansson, Yuri Aikawa, Shigehisa Takakuwa +13

As part of the ALMA Large Program "Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks" (eDisk), 12CO (2 - 1) was observed towards 19 nearby low-mass protostars. Of these objects, 15 sources…

astro-ph.SR2025

The Hourglass-shaped Magnetic Fields and Dust Filaments in the HH 211 Protostellar Envelope

Youngwoo Choi, Woojin Kwon, Leslie W. Looney +4

Magnetic fields influence the structure and evolution of protostellar systems, thus understanding their role is essential for probing the earliest stages of star formation. We pres…

astro-ph.SR2025

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) XXII: Keplerian disk, disk structures and jets/outflows in the Class 0 protostar IRAS 04166+2706

Nguyen Thi Phuong, Chang Won Lee, John J. Tobin +20

We present ALMA observations of the Class 0 protostar IRAS 04166+2706, obtained as part of the ALMA large program Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). These observatio…

astro-ph.EP2025

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) XVII: A Compact but Structured Keplerian Disk and Large-scale Streamers Revealed in the Class I Protostellar System IRAS 04169+2702

Ilseung Han, Woojin Kwon, Yusuke Aso +22

We present high-resolution (0.05"; 8 au) dust continuum and molecular line observations toward the Class I protostellar system IRAS 04169+2702 in the Taurus B213 region, as p…

astro-ph.SR2025

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) XXI: Limited role of streamers in mass supply to the disk in the Class 0 protostar IRAS 16544-1604

Miyu Kido, Hsi-Wei Yen, Jinshi Sai +17

Asymmetric and narrow infalling structures, often called streamers, have been observed in several Class 0/I protostars, which is not expected in the classical star formation pictur…

astro-ph.GA2025

Characterizing Magnetic Properties of Young Protostars in Orion

Bo Huang, Josep M. Girart, Ian W. Stephens +15

The {\em B}-field Orion Protostellar Survey (BOPS) recently obtained polarimetric observations at 870 towards 61 protostars in the Orion molecular clouds with $\sim 1^{\…

astro-ph.SR2025

L1448 IRS3B: Dust Polarization Aligned with Spiral Features, Tracing Gas Flows

Leslie W. Looney, Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin, Zhi-Yun Li +11

Circumstellar disk dust polarization in the (sub)millimeter is, for the most part, not from dust grain alignment with magnetic fields but rather indicative of a combination of dust…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 12 cited

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) XVI: An asymmetric dust disk driving a multi-component molecular outflow in the young Class 0 protostar GSS30 IRS3

Alejandro Santamaria-Miranda, Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo, Nagayoshi Ohashi +17

We present the results of the ALMA Large Program Early Planet Formation in Embedded disks observations of the Class 0 protostar GSS30 IRS3. Our observations included 1.3 mm continu…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 7 cited

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). XI. A high-resolution view toward the BHR 71 Class 0 protostellar wide binary

Sacha Gavino, Jes K. Jørgensen, Rajeeb Sharma +25

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of the binary Class 0 protostellar system BHR 71 IRS1 and IRS2 as part of the Early Planet Formation in…

astro-ph.GA2024

The protostars in Orion: Characterizing the properties of their magnetized envelopes

B. Huang, J. M. Girart, I. W. Stephens +17

We present a study connecting the physical properties of protostellar envelopes to the morphology of the envelope-scale magnetic field. We used the ALMA polarization observations o…

astro-ph.SR2024

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) XV: Influence of Magnetic Field Morphology in Dense Cores on Sizes of Protostellar Disks

Hsi-Wei Yen, Jonathan P. Williams, Jinshi Sai +15

The magnetic field of a molecular cloud core may play a role in the formation of circumstellar disks in the core. We present magnetic field morphologies in protostellar cores of 16…

astro-ph.SR2024

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) XIII: Aligned Disks with Non-Settled Dust Around the Newly Resolved Class 0 Protobinary R CrA IRAS 32

Frankie J. Encalada, Leslie W. Looney, Shigehisa Takakuwa +19

Young protostellar binary systems, with expected ages less than 10 years, are little modified since birth, providing key clues to binary formation and evolution. We prese…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 23 cited

On the magnetic field properties of protostellar envelopes in Orion

Bo Huang, Josep M. Girart, Ian W. Stephens +23

We present 870 um polarimetric observations toward 61 protostars in the Orion molecular clouds, with ~400 au (1") resolution using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.…

astro-ph.EP2024

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) XIV: Flared Dust Distribution and Viscous Accretion Heating of the Disk around R CrA IRS 7B-a

Shigehisa Takakuwa, Kazuya Saigo, Miyu Kido +22

We performed radiative transfer calculations and observing simulations to reproduce the 1.3-mm dust-continuum and CO (2-1) images in the Class I protostar R CrA IRS7B-a, obs…

astro-ph.SR2023

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) X: Compact Disks, Extended Infall, and a Fossil Outburst in the Class I Oph IRS43 Binary

Suchitra Narayanan, Jonathan P. Williams, John J. Tobin +17

We present the first results from the Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) ALMA Large Program toward Oph IRS43, a binary system of solar mass protostars. The 1.3 mm dus…

astro-ph.SR2023

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) XII: Accretion streamers, protoplanetary disk, and outflow in the Class I source Oph IRS63

Christian Flores, Nagayoshi Ohashi, John J. Tobin +25

We present ALMA observations of the Class I source Oph IRS63 in the context of the Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) large program. Our ALMA observations of Oph IRS6…