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20192026
most citedGravitational instability in a planet-forming disk

51 citations · 133 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Astrometric Evidence for Outer Giant Planets in Known Exoplanet Systems

Clarissa R. Do Ó, William Thompson, Dori Blakely +19

Outer giant planets can influence the formation and dynamical evolution of their planetary systems. However, their long orbital periods make them difficult to detect using transit…

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

Reading between the rings: observed dust ring properties as probes of planet masses

Amena Faruqi, Jessica Speedie, Ralph E. Pudritz +1

We hypothesise that dust rings in protoplanetary discs formed by an embedded planet should have properties that reflect the planet's mass. We use 2D hydrodynamical simulations of p…

astro-ph.EP2026

Dynamical Mass Constraints on Transition Disk Perturbers with the G23H Catalog

Dori Blakely, William Thompson, Doug Johnstone +14

We present dynamical mass constraints on perturbers in 11 transition disk systems using a novel combination of calibrated Hipparcos and Gaia absolute astrometry data. Out of the sa…

astro-ph.EP2026

Detecting and Characterizing Companions with a Calibrated Gaia DR2, DR3, and Hipparcos Catalog (G23H)

William Thompson, Dori Blakely, Jerry W. Xuan +16

Gaia DR4 epoch astrometry will enable the detection of thousands of exoplanets through astrometric motion. Here, we present a composite catalog and modeling framework that extracts…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 4 cited

The Circumbinary Disk of HD 34700A: I. CO gas kinematics indicate spirals, infall, and vortex motions

J. Stadler, M. Benisty, F. Zagaria +9

We present the first high-resolution ( 0.14") Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Band 6 dust continuum and CO molecular line emission observations of the qua…

astro-ph.IM2025

Picture an Astronomer: Best Practices for Retaining Talent in Astrophysics

Ava Polzin, Katherine E. Whitaker, C. Megan Urry +85

Women are consistently underrepresented in astrophysics yet are simultaneously subject to disproportionate attrition at every career stage. This disparity between demonstrated effi…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 24 cited

Mapping the merging zone of late infall in the AB Aur planet-forming system

Jessica Speedie, Ruobing Dong, Richard Teague +10

Late infall events challenge the traditional view that planet formation occurs without external influence. Here we present deep ALMA CO and SO observ…

astro-ph.EP2024

Anatomy of a Fall: Stationary and super-Keplerian spiral arms generated by accretion streamers in protostellar discs

Josh Calcino, Daniel J. Price, Thomas Hilder +3

Late-stage infall onto evolved protoplanetary discs is an important source of material and angular momentum replenishment, and disc substructures. In this paper we used 3D smoothed…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 51 cited

Gravitational instability in a planet-forming disk

Jessica Speedie, Ruobing Dong, Cassandra Hall +7

The canonical theory for planet formation in circumstellar disks proposes that planets are grown from initially much smaller seeds. The long-considered alternative theory proposes…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

Observational Signatures of Circumbinary Discs II: Kinematic Signatures in Velocity Residuals

Josh Calcino, Brodie Norfolk, Daniel J. Price +7

Kinematic studies of protoplanetary discs are a valuable method for uncovering hidden companions. In the first paper of this series, we presented five morphological and kinematic c…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

Searching for planet-driven dust spirals in ALMA visibilities

Edward T. Stevenson, Álvaro Ribas, Jessica Speedie +2

ALMA (Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array) observations of the thermal emission from protoplanetary disc dust have revealed a wealth of substructures that could evidence e…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 10 cited

Testing velocity kinks as a planet-detection method: Do velocity kinks in surface gas emission trace planetary spiral wakes in the midplane continuum?

Jessica Speedie, Ruobing Dong

Spiral density waves generated by an embedded planet are understood to cause ``kinks'' in observed velocity channel maps of CO surface emission, by perturbing the gas motion within…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 21 cited

Observing planet-driven dust spirals with ALMA

Jessica Speedie, Richard A. Booth, Ruobing Dong

ALMA continuum observations of thermal emission from the dust component of protoplanetary disks have revealed an abundance of substructures that may be interpreted as evidence for…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 11 cited

Turbulent Disk Viscosity and the Bifurcation of Planet Formation Histories

Jessica Speedie, Ralph E. Pudritz, Alex J. Cridland +2

ALMA observations of dust ring/gap structures in a minority but growing sample of protoplanetary disks can be explained by the presence of planets at large disk radii - yet the ori…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 10 cited

The Structure and Stability of Extended, Inclined Circumplanetary Disk or Ring Systems

Jessica Speedie, J. J. Zanazzi

Large dips in the brightness for a number of stars have been observed, for which the tentative explanation is occultation of the star by a transiting circumplanetary disk or ring s…