activity
20242026
collaborators

8 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

JWST Edge-on Disk Ice (JEDIce): Vibrationally hot, rotationally cold H in the outer disk of Oph 163131 non-thermally excited by UV and cosmic rays

Korash Assani, Zhi-Yun Li, Jennifer B. Bergner +19

Constraining ionization and excitation processes in protoplanetary disks is essential for understanding the chemical structure and evolution of disk material, shaping planet format…

astro-ph.EP2026

High CO/H2 ratios supports an exocometary origin for a CO-rich debris disk

Kevin D. Smith, Luca MatrÃ, Ke Zhang +9

Over 20 exocometary belts host detectable circumstellar gas, mostly in the form of CO. Two competing theories for its origin have emerged, positing the gas to be primordial or seco…

astro-ph.EP2026

Protoplanetary disk cavities with JWST-MIRI: a dichotomy in molecular emission

Patrick Mallaney, Andrea Banzatti, Colette Salyk +24

The evolution of planet-forming regions in protoplanetary disks is of fundamental importance to understanding planet formation. Disks with a central deficit in dust emission, a "ca…

astro-ph.EP2025

The Flying Saucer edge-on disc's Near Infrared silhouette revealed by the JWST JEDIce program

Emmanuel Dartois, Jennifer A. Noble, Jennifer B. Bergner +17

Edge-on discs offer a unique opportunity to probe radial and vertical dust and gas distributions in the protoplanetary phase. This study aims to investigate the distribution of mic…

astro-ph.EP2025

An Ancient Brown Dwarf Transiting a Metal-Poor Thick Disk Star

Jéa Adams Redai, Vedant Chandra, Samuel W. Yee +20

We report the discovery of TOI-7019b, the first transiting brown dwarf (BD) known to orbit a star that is part of the Milky Way's ancient thick disk, as defined chemically ([Fe/H]…

astro-ph.EP2025

REsolved ALMA and SMA Observations of Nearby Stars (REASONS): A population of 74 resolved planetesimal belts at millimetre wavelengths

L. MatrÃ, S. Marino, D. J. Wilner +19

Planetesimal belts are ubiquitous around nearby stars, and their spatial properties hold crucial information for planetesimal and planet formation models. We present resolved dust…