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20182026
most citedThe dispersal of protoplanetary discs. II: Photoevaporation models with observationally derived irradiating spectra

70 citations · 215 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

EWOCS-IX: JWST/NIRCam observations of Westerlund 2 - Identification of candidate substellar members

V. Almendros-Abad, M. G. Guarcello, K. Muzic +26

[Abridged] Investigating substellar populations in young massive clusters offers crucial insights into the formation of brown dwarfs (BDs) and the role of environmental conditions…

astro-ph.EP2025

Hubble reveals complex multi-scale structure in the edge-on protoplanetary disk IRAS 23077+6707

Kristina Monsch, Joshua B. Lovell, Karl R. Stapelfeldt +11

We present high-resolution () Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) imaging of the near edge-on () protoplanetary disk IRAS 23077…

astro-ph.EP2025

SMA and NOEMA reveal asymmetric sub-structure in the protoplanetary disk of IRAS23077+6707

Joshua B. Lovell, Leon Trapman, Kristina Monsch +5

We present high-resolution data of IRAS 23077+6707 (`Dracula's Chivito') with the Submillimeter Array (SMA at 1.33 mm/225.5 GHz) and the Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA a…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

The Radiowave Hunt for Young Stellar Object Emission and Demographics (RADIOHEAD): A Radio LuminositySpectral Type Dependence in TaurusAuriga YSOs

Ramisa Akther Rahman, Joshua Bennett Lovell, Eric W. Koch +4

We measure the radio continuum fluxes at the locations of all Gaiaconfirmed members of TaurusAuriga using Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array Sky Survey data (VLASS; 24…

astro-ph.SR2024

EWOCS-III: JWST observations of the supermassive star cluster Westerlund 1

M. G. Guarcello, V. Almendros-Abad, J. B. Lovell +29

The typically large distances, extinction, and crowding of Galactic supermassive star clusters have so far hampered the identification of their very low mass members, required to e…

astro-ph.SR2024

DECaPS and SMA discovery of a highly-inclined class I YSO with an outflow: IRAS 08235-4316

Joshua Bennett Lovell, Kristina Monsch, Garrett K. Keating +4

We present images of IRAS~08235--4316 with the Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS; spanning 0.398--1.034m, at resolution) and the Submillimeter Array (SMA; at…

astro-ph.SR2024

On Convective Turnover Times and Dynamos In Low-Mass Stars

Seth Gossage, Rocio Kiman, Kristina Monsch +7

The relationship between magnetic activity and Rossby number is one way through which stellar dynamos can be understood. Using measured rotation rates and X-ray to bolometric lumin…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 8 cited

High-resolution Pan-STARRS and SMA observations of IRAS 23077+6707: A giant edge-on protoplanetary disk

Kristina Monsch, Joshua B. Lovell, Ciprian T. Berghea +6

We present resolved images of IRAS 23077+6707 ("Dracula's Chivito") in 1.3 mm/225 GHz thermal dust and CO gas emission with the Submillimeter Array (SMA) and optical (0.5-$0.8\,μ\m…

astro-ph.EP2024

Heating of the Atmospheres of Short-orbit Exoplanets by Their Rapid Orbital Motion Through an Extreme Space Environment

Ofer Cohen, Alex Glocer, Cecilia Garraffo +4

Exoplanets with short orbit period reside very close to their host stars. They transition very rapidly between different sectors of the circumstellar space environment along their…

astro-ph.SR2023

Linking circumstellar disk lifetimes to the rotational evolution of low-mass stars

Kristina Monsch, Jeremy J. Drake, Cecilia Garraffo +2

The high-energy radiation emitted by young stars can have a strong influence on their rotational evolution at later stages. This is because internal photoevaporation is one of the…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

Breakthroughs in Cool Star Physics with the Line Emission Mapper X-ray Probe

Jeremy J. Drake, Julián Alvarado Gomez, Costanza Argiroffi +10

We outline some of the highlights of the scientific case for the advancement of stellar high energy physics using the Line Emission Mapper X-ray Probe ({\it LEM}). The key to advan…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

Addressing Outstanding Problems in the Physics of Massive Stars with the Line Emission Mapper X-ray Probe

Jeremy J. Drake, David Cohen, Michael Corcoran +5

We present some of the salient aspects of the scientific motivation for high resolution soft X-ray spectroscopy of early-type stars with the Line Emission Mapper X-ray Probe. The m…

astro-ph.EP2023

Lowest accreting protoplanetary discs consistent with X-ray photoevaporation driving their final dispersal

Barbara Ercolano, Giovanni Picogna, Kristina Monsch

Photoevaporation from high energy stellar radiation has been thought to drive the dispersal of protoplanetary discs. Different theoretical models have been proposed, but their pred…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 3 cited

Three-dimensional, Time-dependent MHD Simulation of Disk-Magnetosphere-Stellar Wind Interaction in a T Tauri, Protoplanetary System

Ofer Cohen, Cecilia Garraffo, Jeremy Drake +4

We present a three-dimensional, time-dependent, MHD simulation of the short-term interaction between a protoplanetary disk and the stellar corona in a T Tauri system. The simulatio…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 26 cited

Towards a population synthesis of discs and planets. II. Confronting disc models and observations at the population level

Alexandre Emsenhuber, Remo Burn, Jesse Weder +4

Aims. We want to find the distribution of initial conditions that best reproduces disc observations at the population level. Methods. We first ran a parameter study using a 1D mode…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 70 cited

The dispersal of protoplanetary discs. II: Photoevaporation models with observationally derived irradiating spectra

Barbara Ercolano, Giovanni Picogna, Kristina Monsch +2

Young solar-type stars are known to be strong X-ray emitters and their X-ray spectra have been widely studied. X-rays from the central star may play a crucial role in the thermodyn…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 11 cited

The imprint of X-ray photoevaporation of planet-forming discs on the orbital distribution of giant planets -- II. Theoretical predictions

Kristina Monsch, Giovanni Picogna, Barbara Ercolano +1

Numerical models have shown that disc dispersal via internal photoevaporation driven by the host star can successfully reproduce the observed pile-up of warm Jupiters near 1-2 au.…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 10 cited

Giant planet migration during the disc dispersal phase

Kristina Monsch, Giovanni Picogna, Barbara Ercolano +1

Transition discs are expected to be a natural outcome of the interplay between photoevaporation (PE) and giant planet formation. Massive planets reduce the inflow of material from…

astro-ph.SR2019

White paper for Chandra cool attitude targets (CAT): Stellar activity with TESS and Chandra

Hans Moritz Günther, David A. Principe, Carl Melis +9

All cool stars show magnetic activity, and X-ray emission is the hallmark of this activity. Gaining an understanding of activity aids us in answering fundamental questions about st…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 25 cited

The imprint of X-ray photoevaporation of planet-forming discs on the orbital distribution of giant planets

Kristina Monsch, Barbara Ercolano, Giovanni Picogna +2

High energy radiation from a planet host star can have strong influence on the final habitability of a system through several mechanisms. In this context we have constructed a cata…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 57 cited

Dense gas kinematics and a narrow filament in the Orion A OMC1 region using NH3

Kristina Monsch, Jaime E. Pineda, Hauyu Baobab Liu +12

We present combined observations of the NH3 (J,K) = (1,1) and (2,2) inversion transitions towards OMC1 in Orion A obtained by the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and the 100…