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most citedRadiation hydrodynamics simulations of photoevaporation of protoplanetary disks II: Metallicity dependence of UV and X-ray photoevaporation

78 citations · 549 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

FAUST XXXII. Chemically layered structures and ionisation in the disk and envelope of NGC 1333 IRAS 4C

Shota Notsu, Nami Sakai, Yichen Zhang +71

Recent molecular line observations with high spatial resolutions have revealed vertical chemical stratification in Class I/II disks (i.e. chemical composition changing with height…

astro-ph.EP2026

Thermochemical constraints on a primordial-origin of gas-rich debris disks

H. Mitani, W. Ooyama, R. Nakatani +2

Recent observations have revealed gas-rich debris disks around intermediate-mass stars at ages of tens of Myr. The origin of this gas remains unclear: it may be primordial, retaine…

astro-ph.EP2026

From streamers to stars: Overcoming mass loss in protoplanetary disks

W. Ooyama, R. Nakatani, T. Hosokawa +1

Recent high-resolution observations have revealed filamentary accretion flows (``streamers'') in protoplanetary disks older than 1 Myr, suggesting that late-stage interstellar gas…

astro-ph.IM2025

Finding New Debris Discs at Sub-millimetre Wavelengths

Mark Booth, Patricia Luppe, Sebastian Marino +9

Debris discs reveal the architectures and dynamical histories of planetary systems. Sub-millimetre observations trace large dust grains within debris discs, revealing their bulk pr…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 5 cited

Photoevaporation Can Reproduce Extended Emission from Protoplanetary Disks Imaged by JWST MIRI

R. Nakatani, G. Rosotti, B. Tabone +1

Understanding dispersal of protoplanetary disks remains a central challenge in planet formation theory. Disk winds, driven by magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and/or photoevaporation, ar…

astro-ph.SR2025

Model of X-ray and extreme-UV emission from magnetically heated atmospheres in classical T Tauri stars: Case study of TW Hya

Munehito Shoda, Riouhei Nakatani, Shinsuke Takasao

Photoevaporation caused by X-rays and ultraviolet radiation from the central star has attracted attention as a key process driving the dispersal of protoplanetary discs. Although n…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Physically motivated analytic model of energy efficiency for EUV-driven atmospheric escape of close-in exoplanets

Hiroto Mitani, Riouhei Nakatani, Rolf Kuiper

Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) driven atmospheric escape is a key process in the atmospheric evolution of close-in exoplanets. In many evolutionary models, the energy-limited mass-loss…

astro-ph.EP2024

Water vapor as a probe of the origin of gas in debris disks

Yasuhiro Hasegawa, Riouhei Nakatani, Isabel Rebollido +5

Debris disks embrace the formation and evolution histories of planetary systems. Recent detections of gas in these disks have received considerable attention, as its origin ties up…

astro-ph.EP2024

Secret of Longevity: Protoplanetary Disks as a Source of Gas in Debris Disks

Wataru Ooyama, Riouhei Nakatani, Takashi Hosokawa +2

While protoplanetary disks (PPDs) are generally thought to disperse within several million years, recent observations have revealed gas in their older counterparts, debris disks. T…

astro-ph.EP2024

Broadening the Canonical Picture of EUV-Driven Photoevaporation of Accretion Disks

Riouhei Nakatani, Neal J. Turner, Shinsuke Takasao

Photoevaporation driven by hydrogen-ionizing radiation, also known as extreme-ultraviolet (EUV), profoundly shapes the lives of diverse astrophysical objects. Focusing here mainly…

astro-ph.EP2023

A Primordial Origin for the Gas-Rich Debris Disks Around Intermediate-Mass Stars

Riouhei Nakatani, Neal J. Turner, Yasuhiro Hasegawa +4

While most debris disks consist of dust with little or no gas, a fraction has significant amounts of gas detected via emission lines of CO, ionized carbon, and/or atomic oxygen. Al…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 21 cited

Formation of dust clumps with sub-Jupiter mass and cold shadowed region in gravitationally unstable disk around Class 0/I protostar in L1527 IRS

Satoshi Ohashi, Riouhei Nakatani, Hauyu Baobab Liu +4

We have investigated the protostellar disk around a Class 0/I protostar, L1527 IRS, using multi-wavelength observations of the dust continuum emission at , 2.1, 3.3, and 6.…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 20 cited

Chemical and Physical Characterization of the Isolated Protostellar Source CB68: FAUST. IV

Muneaki Imai, Yoko Oya, Brian Svoboda +1

Chemical diversity of low-mass protostellar sources has so far been recognized, and environmental effects are invoked as its origin. In this context, observations of isolated proto…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 32 cited

FAUST III. Misaligned rotations of the envelope, outflow, and disks in the multiple protostellar system of VLA 16232417

Satoshi Ohashi, Claudio Codella, Nami Sakai +69

We report a study of the low-mass Class-0 multiple system VLA 1623AB in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, using HCO (), CS (), and CCH () lines as…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 10 cited

Stellar Wind Effect on the Atmospheric Escape of Hot Jupiters and their Ly- and H transits

Hiroto Mitani, Riouhei Nakatani, Naoki Yoshida

Atmospheric escape of close-in exoplanets can be driven by high energy radiation from the host star. The planetary outflows interacting with the stellar wind may generate observabl…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 48 cited

Rapid growth of seed black holes during early bulge formation

Kohei Inayoshi, Riouhei Nakatani, Daisuke Toyouchi +3

We study the early growth of massive seed black holes (BHs) via accretion in protogalactic nuclei where the stellar bulge component is assembled, performing axisymmetric two-dimens…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 39 cited

FAUST II. Discovery of a Secondary Outflow in IRAS 15398-3359: Variability in Outflow Direction during the Earliest Stage of Star Formation?

Yuki Okoda, Yoko Oya, Logan Francis +66

We have observed the very low-mass Class 0 protostar IRAS 15398-3359 at scales ranging from 50 au to 1800 au, as part of the ALMA Large Program FAUST. We uncover a linear feature,…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 27 cited

Ring formation by coagulation of dust aggregates in early phase of disk evolution around a protostar

Satoshi Ohashi, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Riouhei Nakatani +6

Ring structures are observed by (sub-)millimeter dust continuum emission in various circumstellar disks from early stages of Class 0 and I to late stage of Class II young stellar o…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 39 cited

Radiation hydrodynamics simulations of protoplanetary disks: Stellar mass dependence of the disk photoevaporation rate

Ayano Komaki, Riouhei Nakatani, Naoki Yoshida

Recent multi-wavelength observations suggest that inner parts of protoplanetary disks (PPDs) have shorter lifetimes for heavier host stars. Since PPDs around high-mass stars are ir…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 28 cited

Hydrodynamical simulations of protoplanetary disks including irradiation of stellar photons. I. Resolution study for Vertical Shear Instability (VSI)

Lizxandra Flores-Rivera, Mario Flock, Ryohei Nakatani

In recent years hydrodynamical (HD) models have become important to describe the gas kinematics in protoplanetary disks, especially in combination with models of photoevaporation a…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 32 cited

Photoevaporation of Grain-Depleted Protoplanetary Disks around Intermediate-Mass Stars: Investigating Possibility of Gas-Rich Debris Disks as Protoplanetary Remnants

Riouhei Nakatani, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Rolf Kuiper +2

Debris disks are classically considered to be gas-less systems, but recent (sub)millimeter observations have detected tens of those with rich gas content. The origin of the gas com…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 14 cited

Photoevaporation of Minihalos during Cosmic Reionization: Primordial and Metal-Enriched Halos

Riouhei Nakatani, Anastasia Fialkov, Naoki Yoshida

The density distribution of the inter-galactic medium is an uncertain but highly important issue in the study of cosmic reionization. It is expected that there are abundant gas clo…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 4 cited

Atmospheric Escape of Close-in Giants around Hot Stars: Far-Ultraviolet Radiation and Photoelectric Heating Effect

Hiroto Mitani, Riouhei Nakatani, Naoki Yoshida

Atmospheric escape is an important process that controls the long-term evolution of close-in planets. We perform radiation hydrodynamics simulations of photo-evaporation of exoplan…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 36 cited

Substructure Formation in a Protostellar Disk of L1527 IRS

Riouhei Nakatani, Hauyu Baobab Liu, Satoshi Ohashi +5

We analyze multi-frequency, high-resolution continuum data obtained by ALMA and JVLA to study detailed structure of the dust distribution in the infant disk of a Class~0/I source,…