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astro-ph.EP2026

DEMOS. II. What the full Lupus demographics truly tell us about protoplanetary disc evolution

Lorenzo A. Malanga, Giovanni P. Rosotti, Giuseppe Lodato +7

Assessing whether disc evolution is driven by viscosity or MHD winds is crucial to determine the conditions in which planets form. The rich statistical information encoded in nearb…

astro-ph.EP2026

Demographics of planet-forming disks with the SKAO

Antonio Garufi, Sebastián Pérez, John D. Ilee +21

Understanding how solid material in planet-forming disks evolves from micron-sized dust to planetary cores is a central challenge in modern astrophysics. This study has advanced dr…

astro-ph.EP2026

Substructures in Planet-Forming Disks with the SKAO

Yinhao Wu, Jessica Speedie, Sebastián Pérez +33

Disks of gas and dust orbiting young stars are the arenas and material reservoirs for planet formation. Over the past decade, multiwavelength observations, from infrared to radio,…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Compact CO emission and no evidence of radial drift. ALMA observations of the faintest planet-forming disks in Lupus

Giulia Ricciardi, Francesco Zagaria, Anna Miotello +13

A large fraction of planet-forming disks observed with ALMA show faint CO emission, often interpreted as strong CO depletion. However, faint emission may also arise from spatially…

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★ 1 cited

A tension between dust and gas radii: the role of substructures and external photoevaporation in protoplanetary disks

Luca Delussu, Rossella Anania, Tilman Birnstiel +5

Protoplanetary disk substructures are thought to play a crucial role in disk evolution and planet formation. Population studies of disks large-sample size surveys show that substru…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 6 cited

The ExoGRAVITY survey: A K-band spectral library of giant exoplanet and brown dwarf companions

J. Kammerer, T. O. Winterhalder, S. Lacour +106

Direct observations of exoplanet and brown dwarf companions with near-infrared interferometry, first enabled by the dual-field mode of VLTI/GRAVITY, provide unique measurements of…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): VII. Testing accretion mechanisms from disk population synthesis

Benoît Tabone, Giovanni P. Rosotti, Leon Trapman +24

The architecture of planetary systems depends on the evolution of the disks in which they form. In this work, we develop a population synthesis approach to interpret the AGE-PRO me…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 7 cited

The likelihood of not detecting cavity-carving companions in transition discs -- A statistical approach

Enrico Ragusa, Giuseppe Lodato, Nicolás Cuello +3

Protoplanetary discs with cavities, also known as ``transition discs'', constitute ~10% of protoplanetary discs at sub-mm wavelengths. Among several explanations, one hypothesis su…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

The survivorship bias of protoplanetary disc populations

Lorenzo Alessio Malanga, Giovanni Pietro Rosotti, Giuseppe Lodato +4

The evolution of protoplanetary discs has a substantial impact on theories of planet formation. To date, neither of the two main competing evolutionary models, namely the viscous-p…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 5 cited

Protoplanetary disk insights from the first ERIS/APP survey at 4 μm

F. Maio, V. Roccatagliata, D. Fedele +17

We present high-contrast imaging observations of seven protoplanetary disks at 4um using the ERIS on the VLT. This study focuses on detecting scattered light from micron-sized dust…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 4 cited

The evolution of the and correlations traces protoplanetary disc dispersal

Alice Somigliana, Leonardo Testi, Giovanni Rosotti +9

(Abridged) Observational surveys of entire star-forming regions have provided evidence of power-law correlations between the disc properties and the stellar mass, especially the di…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 4 cited

Planet-driven spirals in protoplanetary discs: limitations of the semi-analytical theory for observations

D. Fasano, A. J. Winter, M. Benisty +7

Detecting protoplanets during their formation stage is an important but elusive goal of modern astronomy. Kinematic detections via the spiral wakes in the gaseous disc are a promis…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 13 cited

Orbital dynamics in the GG Tau A system: investigating its enigmatic disc

Claudia Toci, Simone Ceppi, Nicolás Cuello +6

GG Tau is one of the most studied multiple young stellar systems: GG Tau A is a hierarchical triple surrounded by a massive disc and its companion, GG Tau B, is also a binary. Desp…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 16 cited

The time evolution of in protoplanetary discs as a way to disentangle between viscosity and MHD winds

Alice Somigliana, Leonardo Testi, Giovanni Rosotti +5

As the classic viscous paradigm for protoplanetary disk accretion is challenged by the observational evidence of low turbulence, the alternative scenario of MHD disk winds is being…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 5 cited

Radio multiwavelength analysis of the compact disk CX Tau: Presence of strong free-free variability or anomalous microwave emission

Pietro Curone, Leonardo Testi, Enrique Macias +8

Protoplanetary disks emit radiation across a broad range of wavelengths, requiring a multiwavelength approach to fully understand their physical mechanisms and how they form planet…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 14 cited

Testing protoplanetary disc evolution with CO fluxes. A proof of concept in Lupus and Upper Sco

Francesco Zagaria, Stefano Facchini, Anna Miotello +3

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) revolutionised our understanding of protoplanetary discs. However, the available data have not given conclusive answers yet…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 71 cited

Confirmation and Keplerian motion of the gap-carving protoplanet HD 169142 b

Iain Hammond, Valentin Christiaens, Daniel J. Price +4

We present the re-detection of a compact source in the face-on protoplanetary disc surrounding HD 169142, using VLT/SPHERE data in YJH bands. The source is found at a separation of…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 16 cited

An analytic solution to measure the gas size in protoplanetary discs in the viscous self-similar scenario

Claudia Toci, Giuseppe Lodato, Francesco Gerardo Livio +2

In order to understand which mechanism is responsible for accretion in protoplanetary discs, a robust knowledge of the observed disc radius using gas tracers such as CO and…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 15 cited

External or internal companion exciting the spiral arms in CQ Tau?

Iain Hammond, Valentin Christiaens, Daniel J. Price +9

We present new high-contrast images in near-infrared wavelengths ( = 1.04, 1.24, 1.62, 2.18 and 3.78m) of the young variable star CQ Tau, aiming to constrain the presence of…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 17 cited

On the time evolution of the and correlations for protoplanetary discs: the viscous timescale increases with stellar mass

Alice Somigliana, Claudia Toci, Giovanni Rosotti +5

Large surveys of star-forming regions have unveiled power-law correlations between the stellar mass and the disc parameters, such as the disc mass $M_{\mathrm{d}} \propto {M_{\star…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 13 cited

A giant planet shaping the disk around the very low-mass star CIDA 1

P. Curone, A. F. Izquierdo, L. Testi +13

(Abridged) Exoplanetary research has provided us with exciting discoveries of planets around very low-mass (VLM) stars (e.g., TRAPPIST-1 and Proxima Centauri). However, current the…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 25 cited

Investigating Protoplanetary Disk Cooling through Kinematics: Analytical GI Wiggle

Cristiano Longarini, Giuseppe Lodato, Claudia Toci +4

It is likely that young protostellar disks undergo a self-gravitating phase. Such systems are characterized by the presence of a spiral pattern that can be either in a quasi-steady…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 1 cited

Constraining protoplanetary disc mass using the GI wiggle

J. P. Terry, C. Hall, Cristiano Longarini +5

Exoplanets form in protoplanetary accretion discs. The total protoplanetary disc mass is the most fundamental parameter, since it sets the mass budget for planet formation. Althoug…