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20192026
most citedSpiral arms in the proto-planetary disc HD100453 detected with ALMA: evidence for binary-disc interaction and a vertical temperature gradient

88 citations · 739 across the 61 of their papers we have counts for

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64 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Planet formation on solar system scales

Francesco Zagaria, Andrés F. Izquierdo, Jaehan Bae +32

Giant planets are often regarded as primordial protoplanetary "architects". Their formation and interactions with planetesimals and other planets during and after the protoplanetar…

astro-ph.EP2026

JWST/MIRI Imaging Search for Kinematically Detected Protoplanetary Candidates

G. Cugno, M. Benisty, R. Teague +32

Kinematic perturbations observed with ALMA in CO line emission provide evidence for a population of embedded giant protoplanets shaping the structure of protoplanetary disks. We pr…

astro-ph.EP2026

Mapping the WISPIT2 Planet-Hosting Cavity at Sub-Hill-Radius scales

Myriam Benisty, Stefano Facchini, Richard Teague +6

We present new deep, very high angular resolution observations of the sub-mm continuum (19x13 mas) and 12CO (67x52 mas) emission from the disk surrounding the planet host WISPIT2.…

astro-ph.EP2026

An SMA Molecular Inventory of the Edge-on Protoplanetary Disk Gomez's Hamburger

Erin M. Cusson, Lisa Wölfer, Richard Teague +10

Gomez's Hamburger (IRAS 18059-3211, GoHam) is a massive, edge-on protoplanetary disk that is potentially gravitationally unstable and hosts an overdensity that may be the site of a…

astro-ph.EP2026

The Circumbinary Disc of HD 34700A II. Analysis of a strong dust asymmetry

Daniele Fasano, Myriam Benisty, Jochen Stadler +8

ALMA observations have shown that substructures are ubiquitous in protoplanetary discs. A sub-group, the transition discs, shows large cavities and rings in dust continuum. Among t…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

exoALMA XX: Tomographic Detection of Embedded Planets in Protoplanetary Disks

Andres F. Izquierdo, Jaehan Bae, Stefano Facchini +32

The exoALMA Large Program has revealed a wealth of substructures in the dust and molecular line emission of several protoplanetary discs, suggesting that planet formation may unfol…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

exoALMA XXIII. Estimating Disk and Planet Properties from Dust Morphologies with DBNets2.0

Alessandro Ruzza, Giuseppe Lodato, Giovanni Rosotti +21

The exoALMA large program provided an unprecedented view of the morphology and kinematics of 15 circumstellar disks, offering a biased but homogenous and well-characterized sample…

astro-ph.EP2026

exoALMA. XXIV. Formaldehyde Emission in Protoplanetary Disks of exoALMA Compared with Their Properties and Dynamical State

Felipe Alarcón, Stefano Facchini, Leon Trapman +15

The presence of asymmetries and substructures in protoplanetary disks, revealed by both dust and gas emission, highlights the potential interplay and the broader connection between…

astro-ph.EP2026

exoALMA XXII: A Two-dimensional Atlas of Deviations from Keplerian Disks

Misato Fukagawa, Andrés F. Izquierdo, Jochen Stadler +35

Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planetary systems, and deviations from Keplerian rotation imprinted in disk gas kinematics serve as key tracers of physical processes an…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 3 cited

exoALMA XXI: The Morphology and Dynamics of Vertical Flows

Myriam Benisty, Andres F. Izquierdo, Jochen Stadler +33

Vertical gas flows, such as winds and meridional circulations, are natural outcomes of protoplanetary disk processes and play a critical role in the earliest stages of planet forma…

astro-ph.SR2026

Benchmarking pre-main sequence stellar evolutionary tracks using disk-based dynamical stellar masses

Luigi Zallio, Miguel Vioque, Sean M. Andrews +14

Stellar masses are a fundamental property to understand models of pre-main sequence evolution, but their values derived from Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagrams are strongly model de…

astro-ph.EP2026

Probing Dust in the MWC 480 Disk from Millimeter to Centimeter Wavelengths

Yangfan Shi, Feng Long, Enrique Macías +12

We present deep, high-resolution (100 mas) Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) Ka-band (9.1 mm) observations of the disk around MWC 480, and infer dust properties through a…

astro-ph.EP2026

A Protoplanet Candidate in the PDS 66 Disk Indicated by Silicon Sulfide Isotopologues

Tomohiro C. Yoshida, Felipe Alarcón, Jaehan Bae +11

Despite observational progress in planet formation, the stage in which planetesimals grow into planets remains poorly understood. During this phase, protoplanets may develop gaseou…

astro-ph.EP2026

Satellites and small bodies with ALMA: Insights into Solar System formation & evolution

Katherine de Kleer, Michael E. Brown, Martin Cordiner +1

Our understanding of the formation and evolution of planetary systems has made major advances in the past decade. This progress has been driven in large part by the Atacama Large M…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 3 cited

exoALMA XIX: Confirmation of Non-thermal Line Broadening in the DM Tau Protoplanetary Disk

Caitlyn Hardiman, Christophe Pinte, Daniel J. Price +38

Turbulence is expected to transport angular momentum and drive mass accretion in protoplanetary disks. One way to directly measure turbulent motion in disks is through molecular li…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 5 cited

A 2 au resolution view by ALMA of the planet-hosting WISPIT 2 disk

Stefano Facchini, Pietro Curone, Myriam Benisty +4

We present deep, high spatial resolution interferometric observations of 0.88 mm continuum emission from the TYC 5709-354-1 system, hereafter WISPIT 2, obtained with the goal of de…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 4 cited

The Circumbinary Disk of HD 34700A: I. CO gas kinematics indicate spirals, infall, and vortex motions

J. Stadler, M. Benisty, F. Zagaria +9

We present the first high-resolution ( 0.14") Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Band 6 dust continuum and CO molecular line emission observations of the qua…

astro-ph.EP2026

Tracing Pebble Drift History in Two Protoplanetary Disks with CO Enhancement

Tayt Armitage, Joe Williams, Ke Zhang +15

Pebble drift is an important mechanism for supplying the materials needed to build planets in the inner region of protoplanetary disks. Thus, constraining pebble drift's timescales…

astro-ph.EP2025

Spirals and Vertical Motions in the Planet-Forming Disk around HD 100546. A multi-line study of its gas kinematics

Lisa Wölfer, Andrés F. Izquierdo, Alice Booth +5

HD100546 represents a particularly interesting target to study dynamical planet-disk interactions as various features have been observed in both the dust and gas that provide direc…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 4 cited

Astrometric view of companions in the inner dust cavities of protoplanetary disks

Miguel Vioque, Richard A. Booth, Enrico Ragusa +16

Protoplanetary disks with inner dust cavities (often referred to as "transition disks") are potential signposts of planet formation. We use Gaia astrometry to search for planetary…

astro-ph.EP2025

A Submillimeter Survey of CS Excitation in Protoplanetary Disks: Evidence of X-ray-Driven Sulfur Chemistry

Charles J. Law, Romane Le Gal, Karin I. Öberg +12

The sulfur chemistry in protoplanetary disks influences the properties of nascent planets, including potential habitability. Although the inventory of sulfur molecules in disks has…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 4 cited

The 12CO Gas Structures of Protoplanetary Disks in the Upper Scorpius Region

Luigi Zallio, Giovanni P. Rosotti, Miguel Vioque +13

We present measurements of key protoplanetary disk properties inferred from parametric models of ALMA 12CO spectral line visibilities. We derive gas-disk radii, integrated fluxes,…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 8 cited

Direct Measurement of Extinction in a Planet-Hosting Gap

G. Cugno, S. Facchini, F. Alarcon +12

Recent disk observations have revealed multiple indirect signatures of forming gas giant planets, but high-contrast imaging has rarely confirmed the presence of the suspected pertu…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

Winding Motion of Spirals in a Gravitationally Unstable Protoplanetary Disk

Tomohiro C. Yoshida, Hideko Nomura, Kiyoaki Doi +5

The discovery of wide-orbit giant exoplanets has posed a challenge to our conventional understanding of planet formation by coagulation of dust grains and planetesimals, and subseq…