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Multi-wavelength Polarization as a Probe of Planet Formation
Ian Stephens, Sarah Sadavoy, Akimasa Kataoka +11
Polarization reveals details of circumstellar disks that are not readily available from total intensity observations. Via multi-wavelength polarimetric observations of disks, we ca…
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…
The ALMA View of the Edge-on Gomez's Hamburger System: A Highly-Dynamic, Asymmetric Protoplanetary Disk Reveals the Earliest Phases of Giant Planet Formation
Charles J. Law, Jensen Lawrence, Richard Teague +18
Chemical tracers provide some of the strongest observational signatures of ongoing planet formation and localized dynamical perturbations in protoplanetary disks. In particular, su…
Azimuthal Dust Polarization from Aerodynamically Aligned Grains as Evidence for the Streaming Instability in Protoplanetary Disks
Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin, Jeonghoon Lim, Jacob B. Simon +8
(Sub)millimeter dust polarization in protoplanetary disks has revealed the presence of large (~ 100 um) dust grains that are aligned along their long axis following the azimuthal d…
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…
Detailed radial scale height profile of dust grains as probed by dust self-scattering in HL Tau
Haifeng Yang, Ian W. Stephens, Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin +4
The vertical settling of dust grains in a circumstellar disk, characterized by their scale height, is a pivotal process in the formation of planets. This study offers in-depth anal…
Magnetic Fields in the Pillars of Creation
Adwitiya Sarkar, Leslie W. Looney, Marc W. Pound +7
Due to dust grain alignment with magnetic fields, dust polarization observations of far-infrared emission from cold molecular clouds are often used to trace magnetic fields, allowi…
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…
Early Grain Growth in the Young Protostellar Disk HH 212 Supported by Dust Self-Scattering Modeling
Ying-Chi Hu, Chin-Fei Lee, Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin +3
Grain growth in disks around young stars plays a crucial role in the formation of planets. Early grain growth has been suggested in the HH 212 protostellar disk by previous polariz…
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…
Polarization Substructure in the Spiral-Dominated HH 111 Disk: Evidence for Grain Growth
Chin-Fei Lee, Zhi-Yun Li, Tao-Chung Ching +4
The HH 111 protostellar disk has recently been found to host a pair of spiral arms. Here we report the dust polarization results in the disk as well as the inner envelope around it…
Badminton Birdie-Like Aerodynamic Alignment of Drifting Dust Grains by Subsonic Gaseous Flows in Protoplanetary Disks
Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin, Zhi-Yun Li, Haifeng Yang +4
Recent (sub)millimeter polarization observations of protoplanetary disks reveal toroidally aligned, effectively prolate dust grains large enough (at least ~100 m) to efficiently…
Protoplanetary Disk Polarization at Multiple Wavelengths: Are Dust Populations Diverse?
Rachel E. Harrison, Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin, Leslie W. Looney +4
Millimeter and sub-millimeter observations of continuum linear dust polarization provide insight into dust grain growth in protoplanetary disks, which are the progenitors of planet…
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…
Turbulent vortex with moderate dust settling probed by scattering-induced polarization in the IRS 48 system
Haifeng Yang, Manuel Fernández-López, Zhi-Yun Li +4
We investigate the crescent-shaped dust trap in the transition disk, Oph IRS 48, using well-resolved (sub)millimeter polarimetric observations at ALMA Band 7 (870 m). The dust p…
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…
Aligned Grains and Scattered Light Found in Gaps of Planet-Forming Disk
Ian W. Stephens, Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin, Manuel Fernandez-Lopez +8
Polarized (sub)millimeter emission from dust grains in circumstellar disks was initially thought to be due to grains aligned with the magnetic field. However, higher resolution mul…
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…
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…
Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). VIII. A Small Protostellar Disk around the Extremely Low-Mass and Young Class 0 Protostar, IRAS 15398-3359
Travis J. Thieme, Shih-Ping Lai, Nagayoshi Ohashi +22
Protostellar disks are a ubiquitous part of the star formation process and the future sites of planet formation. As part of the Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) lar…
Panchromatic (Sub)millimeter Polarization Observations of HL Tau Unveil Aligned Scattering Grains
Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin, Zhi-Yun Li, Ian W. Stephens +14
Polarization is a unique tool to study the properties of dust grains of protoplanetary disks and detail the initial conditions of planet formation. Polarization around HL Tau was p…
Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) VI: Kinematic Structures around the Very Low Mass Protostar IRAS 16253-2429
Yusuke Aso, Woojin Kwon, Nagayoshi Ohashi +24
Precise estimates of protostellar masses are crucial to characterize the formation of stars of low masses down to brown-dwarfs (BDs; M* < 0.08 Msun). The most accurate estimation o…
Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) IX: High-resolution ALMA Observations of the Class 0 Protostar R CrA IRS5N and its surrounding
Rajeeb Sharma, Jes K. Jørgensen, Sacha Gavino +19
We present high-resolution, high-sensitivity observations of the Class 0 protostar RCrA IRS5N as part of the Atacama Large Milimeter/submilimeter Array (ALMA) large program Early P…
AT2018dyk Revisited: a Tidal Disruption Event Candidate with Prominent Infrared Echo and Delayed X-ray Emission in a LINER Galaxy
Shifeng Huang, Ning Jiang, Zheyu Lin +2
The multiwavelength data of nuclear transient AT2018dyk, initially discovered as a changing-look low-ionization nuclear emission-line region (LINER) galaxy, has been revisited by u…