15 papers
Direct Imaging Discovery of Giant Exoplanet Pictoris d: A Decade-Long Game of Hide-and-Seek
Ben J. Sutlieff, Markus J. Bonse, Valentin Christiaens +94
The paper reports the direct imaging discovery of a third giant exoplanet, β Pictoris d, using VLT/ERIS and archival JWST/NIRCam and VLT/SPHERE data, and characterizes its orbit, t…
Using VLTI/GRAVITY+ to determine the identity of a third planet candidate in the PDS 70 system
David Trevascus, Wolfgang Brandner, Olga Balsalobre-Ruza +75
Detections of protoplanets are rare and protoplanetary disk features mischaracterized as planets are common. PDS 70 is one of only two stars known to host multiple confirmed protop…
Two inner dust clumps in PDS 70. A third protoplanet traced by trojan material or a substructured inner disk?
O. Balsalobre-Ruza, V. Christiaens, N. Huélamo +21
The PDS 70 cavity hosts two confirmed directly imaged protoplanets and a third inner planet candidate at 13au, labeled PDS 70 d. Despite its Keplerian motion, its unusually blue sp…
Multi-epoch scattered-light analysis of HD 135344B: new evidence for a spiral-driving protoplanet
J. Latour, V. Christiaens, O. Absil +17
The HD 135344B (SAO 206462) disk exhibits strong signposts of planet formation. ALMA images in the sub-mm revealed a gap-crossing dust filament whose position coincides with a twis…
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…
SO emission in the dynamically perturbed protoplanetary disks around CQ Tau and MWC 758
Francesco Zagaria, Haochang Jiang, Gianni Cataldi +25
We report the serendipitous detection of the SO (219.949 GHz) rotational transition in archival Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of th…