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most citedexoALMA III: Line-intensity Modeling and System Property Extraction from Protoplanetary Disks

37 citations · 257 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

JWST/MIRI Imaging Search for Kinematically Detected Protoplanetary Candidates

G. Cugno, M. Benisty, R. Teague +32

Kinematic perturbations observed with ALMA in CO line emission provide evidence for a population of embedded giant protoplanets shaping the structure of protoplanetary disks. We pr…

astro-ph.EP2026

An archival summary: 15 years of ALMA observations on disks and planet formation

Nicolas T. Kurtovic, Lizxandra Flores-Rivera, Laura M. Perez +15

The Atacama Large (sub-)millimeter Array (ALMA) has been in scientific operations for almost 15 years. We celebrate this achievement by providing a summary of the ``Disks and plane…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

exoALMA XX: Tomographic Detection of Embedded Planets in Protoplanetary Disks

Andres F. Izquierdo, Jaehan Bae, Stefano Facchini +32

The exoALMA Large Program has revealed a wealth of substructures in the dust and molecular line emission of several protoplanetary discs, suggesting that planet formation may unfol…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

exoALMA XXIII. Estimating Disk and Planet Properties from Dust Morphologies with DBNets2.0

Alessandro Ruzza, Giuseppe Lodato, Giovanni Rosotti +21

The exoALMA large program provided an unprecedented view of the morphology and kinematics of 15 circumstellar disks, offering a biased but homogenous and well-characterized sample…

astro-ph.EP2026

exoALMA. XXIV. Formaldehyde Emission in Protoplanetary Disks of exoALMA Compared with Their Properties and Dynamical State

Felipe Alarcón, Stefano Facchini, Leon Trapman +15

The presence of asymmetries and substructures in protoplanetary disks, revealed by both dust and gas emission, highlights the potential interplay and the broader connection between…

astro-ph.EP2026

exoALMA XXII: A Two-dimensional Atlas of Deviations from Keplerian Disks

Misato Fukagawa, Andrés F. Izquierdo, Jochen Stadler +35

Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planetary systems, and deviations from Keplerian rotation imprinted in disk gas kinematics serve as key tracers of physical processes an…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 3 cited

exoALMA XXI: The Morphology and Dynamics of Vertical Flows

Myriam Benisty, Andres F. Izquierdo, Jochen Stadler +33

Vertical gas flows, such as winds and meridional circulations, are natural outcomes of protoplanetary disk processes and play a critical role in the earliest stages of planet forma…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 3 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2025

Sculpting protoplanetary discs -- modelling circumbinary cavities at observable scales with radiation hydrodynamics

Anna B. T. Penzlin, Alexandros Ziampras, Nicolas T. Kurtovic +2

Observations of circumbinary discs reveal inner cavities, with their shape and size varying strongly between different systems. The structure of the cavity is determined by the com…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

Winding Motion of Spirals in a Gravitationally Unstable Protoplanetary Disk

Tomohiro C. Yoshida, Hideko Nomura, Kiyoaki Doi +5

The discovery of wide-orbit giant exoplanets has posed a challenge to our conventional understanding of planet formation by coagulation of dust grains and planetesimals, and subseq…

astro-ph.EP2025

Revealing Fine Structure in Protoplanetary Disks with Physics Constrained Neural Fields

Aviad Levis, Nhan Luong, Richard Teague +3

Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planets, and resolving their three-dimensional structure is key to understanding disk evolution. The unprecedented resolution of ALMA de…

astro-ph.EP2025

exoALMA. XVIII. Interpreting large scale kinematic structures as moderate warping

Andrew J. Winter, Myriam Benisty, Andrés F. Izquierdo +28

The exoALMA program gave an unprecedented view of the complex kinematics of protoplanetary disks, revealing diverse structures that remain poorly understood. We show that moderate…

astro-ph.EP2025

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…

astro-ph.EP2025

ExoALMA XIII. gas masses from N2H+ and C18O: a comparison of protoplanetary gas disk mass measurement techniques

Leon Trapman, Cristiano Longarini, Giovanni P. Rosotti +37

The gas masses of protoplanetary disks are important but elusive quantities. In this work we present new ALMA observations of N2H+ (3-2) for 11 exoALMA disks. N2H+ is a molecule se…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 25 cited

exoALMA. VI. Rotating under Pressure: Rotation curves, azimuthal velocity substructures, and pressure variations

Jochen Stadler, Myriam Benisty, Andrew J. Winter +36

The bulk motion of the gas in protoplanetary disks around newborn stars is nearly Keplerian. By leveraging the high angular and spectral resolution of ALMA, we can detect small-sca…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 16 cited

exoALMA. XVII. Characterizing the Gas Dynamics around Dust Asymmetries

Lisa Wölfer, Marcelo Barraza-Alfaro, Richard Teague +31

The key planet-formation processes in protoplanetary disks remain an active matter of research. One promising mechanism to radially and azimuthally trap millimeter-emitting dust gr…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 17 cited

exoALMA XV: Interpreting the height of CO emission layer

Giovanni P. Rosotti, Cristiano Longarini, Teresa Paneque-Carreño +32

The availability of exquisite data and the development of new analysis techniques have enabled the study of emitting heights in proto-planetary disks. In this paper we introduce a…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 37 cited

exoALMA III: Line-intensity Modeling and System Property Extraction from Protoplanetary Disks

Andrés F. Izquierdo, Jochen Stadler, Maria Galloway-Sprietsma +37

The ALMA large program exoALMA offers a unique window into the three-dimensional physical and dynamical properties of 15 circumstellar disks where planets may be actively forming.…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 37 cited

exoALMA V: Gaseous Emission Surfaces and Temperature Structures

Maria Galloway-Sprietsma, Jaehan Bae, Andrés F. Izquierdo +35

Analysis of the gaseous component in protoplanetary disks can inform us about their thermal and physical structure, chemical composition, and kinematic properties, all of which are…

astro-ph.EP2025

exoALMA II: Data Calibration and Imaging Pipeline

Ryan A. Loomis, Stefano Facchini, Myriam Benisty +30

The exoALMA Large Program was designed to search for subtle kinematic deviations from Keplerian motion, indicative of embedded planets, in high angular and spectral resolution Band…

astro-ph.EP2025

exoALMA XI: ALMA Observations and Hydrodynamic Models of LkCa 15: Implications for Planetary Mass Companions in the Dust Continuum Cavity

Charles H. Gardner, Andrea Isella, Hui Li +43

In the past decade, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has revealed a plethora of substructures in the disks surrounding young stars. These substructures have…

astro-ph.EP2025

exoALMA. XVI. Predicting Signatures of Large-scale Turbulence in Protoplanetary Disks

Marcelo Barraza-Alfaro, Mario Flock, William Béthune +31

Turbulent gas motions drive planet formation and protoplanetary disk evolution. However, empirical constraints on turbulence are scarce, halting our understanding of its nature. Re…

astro-ph.EP2025

exoALMA XIV. Gas Surface Densities in the RX J1604.3-2130 A Disk from Pressure-broadened CO Line Wings

Tomohiro C. Yoshida, Pietro Curone, Jochen Stadler +31

The gas surface density is one of the most relevant physical quantities in protoplanetary disks. However, its precise measurement remains highly challenging due to the lack of a di…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 10 cited

exoALMA. VIII. Probabilistic Moment Maps and Data Products using Non-parametric Linear Models

Thomas Hilder, Andrew R. Casey, Daniel J. Price +33

Extracting robust inferences on physical quantities from disk kinematics measured from Doppler-shifted molecular line emission is challenging due to the data's size and complexity.…