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most citedThe wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation

211 citations · 986 across the 74 of their papers we have counts for

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79 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

HD 152384: A 5 Myr old debris disk system showing a gaseous ring of refractory elements at the dust sublimation radius

Mario van den Ancker, Daniela Iglesias, Olja Panić +2

Context: Circumstellar gas around young stars provides key insights into planet formation and disk evolution. HD 152384, a young (5 Myr) A0 V star in Sco-Cen, shows hybrid-disk tra…

astro-ph.EP2026

A faint dust ring beyond the compact disk of Sz 76

Giulia Ricciardi, Anna Miotello, Karina Mauco +10

We report new ALMA Band 7 high-resolution (0.05) continuum and observations of the disk around the young low-mass star Sz 76. Visibil…

astro-ph.SR2026

Stellar age is not disk age

M. Kuffmeier, A. Winter, A. Kuznetsova +2

Disk fractions in star-forming clusters decline with stellar age, and are routinely read as the lifetime distribution of primordial protoplanetary disks. We argue that this reading…

astro-ph.SR2026

The FU Ori outburst of PR Ori B

Carlos Contreras Pena, Zsofia Nagy, Gregory Herczeg +42

We report the discovery of a nearby FU Ori-type outburst (FUor), PR Ori B, in the L1641 cluster of the Orion star-forming region. The high-amplitude variability was first identifie…

astro-ph.EP2026

Dust Substructures and Line Perturbations driven by a Forming Planet in J16120

Anibal Sierra, Andrés F. Izquierdo, Paola Pinilla +18

Hints of planet formation have been independently reported within the gap of the disc around 2MASS J16120668-301027 from millimetre continuum, infrared, and H-alpha observations. I…

astro-ph.SR2026

X-shooter survey Across Regions and Ages to probe Disk Evolution (ARADE): Accretion properties in Orion A and their relation with disk masses

Lara Piscarreta, Giacomo Beccari, Carlo Manara +10

We present a homogeneous VLT/X-Shooter study of accretion in young stellar objects spanning the entire Orion A complex. Our sample includes 91 pre-main-sequence stars hosting a pro…

astro-ph.EP2026

An analysis of the Herbig star population and their protoplanetary disks within 1 kpc

L. M. Stapper, M. Vioque, A. J. Winter +6

Herbig stars are intermediate mass pre-main sequence stars of 1.5 to ~M and are in between low and high-mass star formation. This work provides a catalog of all 243…

astro-ph.EP2026

The JDISC Survey: Inner Disk Chemistry of Class I/FS Disks and Tentative Evidence for Early Pebble Drift

Ke Zhang, Andrea Banzatti, Colette Salyk +22

We present the first chemical survey of Class I and Flat-Spectrum (I/FS) disks using JWST MIRI/MRS, targeting sixteen sources in the Ophiuchus star-forming region. Through empirica…

astro-ph.IM2026

ESO User Support and Observation Preparation for VLTI Science Operations

M. Wittkowski, G. Beccari, A. Corporaal +15

We present recent enhancements to VLTI observing capabilities from a user-oriented perspective, together with new developments in ESO's Observation Handling Tools and end-to-end op…

astro-ph.SR2026

Far-ultraviolet flux distribution in Orion and its relation to stellar accretion

Rossella Anania, Andrew J. Winter, Miguel Vioque +8

Orion is the closest region hosting active star formation and young OBA stars. Computing far-ultraviolet (FUV) fluxes at its stars is essential to connect stellar and protoplanetar…

astro-ph.IM2026

ESOFinder: an LLM-powered tool to help users navigate ESO documentation

P. Sánchez-Sáez, C. Reinero, M. Vioque +6

The large amount and diversity of documentation available for users of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), spanning the full observing lifecycle from proposal preparation and…

astro-ph.EP2026

From Young to Older Disks: JWST/MIRI Evidence for Fading Molecular Emission and Hints for Elevated C/O in Upper Scorpius

Chengyan Xie, Ilaria Pascucci, Feng Long +23

We present JWST/MIRI spectroscopy of 14 disks in the older (~5-10 Myr) Upper Scorpius (USco) association and use slab of gas in local thermal equilibrium to infer basic gas propert…

astro-ph.EP2026

Chemical Divergence and Water Depletion: Gas Properties of Evolved Upper Scorpius Disks Revealed by JWST/MIRI

Eshan Raul, Ke Zhang, Abygail Waggoner +25

Tracing the chemical evolution of protoplanetary disks over time requires observations of disks at different ages. However, most JWST/MIRI surveys published to date have targeted y…

astro-ph.EP2026

Molecular Similarity and Water Diversity in Coeval Binary Disks: JWST/MIRI Observations of Sz 65 and Sz 66

Jinghuai Yao, Ke Zhang, Andrea Banzatti +10

We present JWST/MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrometer spectra of the wide-separation (projected separation au) binary protoplanetary disks Sz 65 (K7; ) and Sz…

astro-ph.SR2026

A millimeter Survey for Disks around Herbig Be Stars

David J. Wilner, Joshua Bennett Lovell, Sean M. Andrews +3

We present a survey of 24 Herbig Be stars (young stellar objects M) within 3 kpc at 1.3~millimeters using the Submillimeter Array at about resolution to identi…

astro-ph.EP2026

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): Formaldehyde (HCO) emission and its links to disk properties

Ella Chevalier, Ke Zhang, Miguel Vioque +7

Protoplanetary disks are rotating structures of gas and dust surrounding young stars, serving as the birth places of planets. Understanding the chemical evolution of organic materi…

astro-ph.SR2026

X-Shooter survey of disk accretion in Upper Scorpius II. A lack of correlation between accretion rates and disk properties

A. Empey, C. F. Manara, R. Garcia Lopez +19

The evolution of protoplanetary discs is intertwined with the process of planet formation, growth and migration. Studies of nearby star forming regions of different ages and proper…

astro-ph.EP2026

An archival summary: 15 years of ALMA observations on disks and planet formation

Nicolas T. Kurtovic, Lizxandra Flores-Rivera, Laura M. Perez +15

The Atacama Large (sub-)millimeter Array (ALMA) has been in scientific operations for almost 15 years. We celebrate this achievement by providing a summary of the ``Disks and plane…

astro-ph.EP2026

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): Constraints on disk turbulence, fragmentation velocity, and inner pebble fluxes

Lilian Luo, Paola Pinilla, Camila Pulgarés +14

How substructures and disk properties affect dust evolution and the delivery of solids and volatiles into planet-forming regions remains an open question. We present results from t…

astro-ph.EP2026

JWST/MIRI Hydrocarbon and Water Absorption in the Wind of a Young Disk: Signatures of Pebble Drift and Carbon Grain Sublimation

María José Colmenares, Edwin A. Bergin, Ke Zhang +27

We present JWST/MIRI-MRS observations of ISO-Oph 37, a highly inclined flat-spectrum (1 Myr old) source, to investigate the chemical composition and dynamical origin of i…

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.SR2026★ 1 cited

Lithium and the evolution of intermediate-mass T Tauri and Herbig stars. Rotation, accretion, and planets

I. Mendigutía, J. Campbell-White, B. Montesinos +9

(Abridged) We contribute to our understanding of the evolution of young intermediate-mass stars by providing a comprehensive analysis of their lithium (Li) content. A sample of 71…

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.SR2026★ 4 cited

Planet-forming disks and their environment across regions and time from the full NIR census

Antonio Garufi, Christian Ginski, Myriam Benisty +5

The evolution of planet-forming disks and the processes of planet formation influence each other, and both of them are possibly impacted by the local environment. Extensive high-re…