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20202026
most citedSpiral Arms and a Massive Dust Disk with non-Keplerian Kinematics: Possible Evidence for Gravitational Instability in the Disk of Elias 2-27

75 citations · 566 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Chemistry on solar system scales

Catherine Walsh, Maria Drozdovskaya, Dmitry Semenov +33

The initial chemical composition of planets, primitive bodies in our solar system, and exoplanets is ultimately set by their nascent protoplanetary disks. Yet observing key carbon-…

astro-ph.EP2026

Dust Substructures and Line Perturbations driven by a Forming Planet in J16120

Anibal Sierra, Andrés F. Izquierdo, Paola Pinilla +18

Hints of planet formation have been independently reported within the gap of the disc around 2MASS J16120668-301027 from millimetre continuum, infrared, and H-alpha observations. I…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Extending dynamical mass measurements: probing GI as a possible origin of mm-dust spirals

V. Pezzotta, S. Facchini, A. F. Izquierdo +7

Constraining the total mass of protoplanetary disks is crucial to determine the availability of material for planet formation. Yet, providing accurate and precise measurements of t…

astro-ph.EP2026

Water D/H in 3I/ATLAS as a Probe of Formation Conditions in Another Planetary System

Luis E. Salazar Manzano, Teresa Paneque-Carreño, Martin A. Cordiner +17

Water reservoirs in the Solar System exhibit a deuterium enrichment that links back to the physical environment at the time of stellar birth. Gas-phase and ice-grain deuterium enri…

astro-ph.SR2026

Benchmarking pre-main sequence stellar evolutionary tracks using disk-based dynamical stellar masses

Luigi Zallio, Miguel Vioque, Sean M. Andrews +14

Stellar masses are a fundamental property to understand models of pre-main sequence evolution, but their values derived from Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagrams are strongly model de…

astro-ph.EP2025

Spirals and Vertical Motions in the Planet-Forming Disk around HD 100546. A multi-line study of its gas kinematics

Lisa Wölfer, Andrés F. Izquierdo, Alice Booth +5

HD100546 represents a particularly interesting target to study dynamical planet-disk interactions as various features have been observed in both the dust and gas that provide direc…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 4 cited

The 12CO Gas Structures of Protoplanetary Disks in the Upper Scorpius Region

Luigi Zallio, Giovanni P. Rosotti, Miguel Vioque +13

We present measurements of key protoplanetary disk properties inferred from parametric models of ALMA 12CO spectral line visibilities. We derive gas-disk radii, integrated fluxes,…

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★ 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★ 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.EP2025★ 10 cited

Vertical CO surfaces as a probe for protoplanetary disk mass and carbon depletion

T. Paneque-Carreño, A. Miotello, E. F. van Dishoeck +2

As the sample of mid-inclination disks with measured CO emission surfaces grows, a fundamental unanswered question is how these vertical profiles connect to their host properties.…

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★ 4 cited

Angular momentum transport via gravitational instability in the Elias 2-27 disc

Cristiano Longarini, Giuseppe Lodato, Cathie J. Clarke +6

Gravitational instability is thought to be one of the main drivers of angular momentum transport in young protoplanetary discs. The disc around Elias 2-27 offers a unique example o…

astro-ph.EP2023

C I Traces the Disk Atmosphere in the IM Lup Protoplanetary Disk

Charles J. Law, Felipe Alarcón, L. Ilsedore Cleeves +2

The central star and its energetic radiation fields play a vital role in setting the vertical and radial chemical structure of planet-forming disks. We present observations that, f…

astro-ph.EP2023

High turbulence in the IM Lup protoplanetary disk: Direct observational constraints from CN and CH emission

T. Paneque-Carreño, A. F. Izquierdo, R. Teague +4

Constraining turbulence in disks is key towards understanding their evolution through the transport of angular momentum. Until now measurements of high turbulence have remained elu…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 49 cited

The Disc Miner II: Revealing Gas substructures and Kinematic signatures from Planet-disc interaction through line profile analysis

Andres F. Izquierdo, Leonardo Testi, Stefano Facchini +4

[Abridged] The aim of this work is to identify potential signatures from planet-disc interaction in the circumstellar discs around MWC 480, HD 163296, AS 209, IM Lup, and GM Aur, t…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 37 cited

Mapping Protoplanetary Disk Vertical Structure with CO Isotopologue Line Emission

Charles J. Law, Richard Teague, Karin I. Öberg +21

High spatial resolution observations of CO isotopologue line emission in protoplanetary disks at mid-inclinations (30-75°) allow us to characterize the gas structure in…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 11 cited

A dichotomy in group II Herbig disks: ALMA gas disk height measurements show both shadowed large vertically extended disks and compact flat disks

L. M. Stapper, M. R. Hogerheijde, E. F. van Dishoeck +1

Herbig stars can be classified into group I and group II depending on the shape of the far-IR excess from the spectral energy distribution. This separation may be evolutionary and…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 52 cited

Dynamical mass measurements of two protoplanetary discs

G. Lodato, L. Rampinelli, E. Viscardi +8

ALMA observations of line emission from planet forming discs have demonstrated to be an excellent tool to probe the internal disc kinematics, often revealing subtle effects related…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 58 cited

Directly tracing the vertical stratification of molecules in protoplanetary disks

T. Paneque-Carreño, A. Miotello, E. F. van Dishoeck +3

We aim to directly trace the vertical location of the emitting surface of multiple molecular tracers in protoplanetary disks. Our sample of disks includes Elias 2-27, WaOph 6 and t…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 18 cited

Vertically extended and asymmetric CN emission in the Elias 2-27 protoplanetary disk

T. Paneque-Carreño, A. Miotello, E. F. van Dishoeck +5

Elias 2-27 is a young star that hosts an extended, bright and inclined disk of dust and gas. The inclination and extreme flaring of the disk make Elias 2-27 an ideal target to stud…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 46 cited

Gas temperature structure across transition disk cavities

M. Leemker, A. S. Booth, E. F. van Dishoeck +8

[Abridged] Most disks observed at high angular resolution show substructures. Knowledge about the gas surface density and temperature is essential to understand these. The aim of t…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 1 cited

Constraining protoplanetary disc mass using the GI wiggle

J. P. Terry, C. Hall, Cristiano Longarini +5

Exoplanets form in protoplanetary accretion discs. The total protoplanetary disc mass is the most fundamental parameter, since it sets the mass budget for planet formation. Althoug…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 60 cited

A dynamical measurement of the disk mass in Elias 2-27

Benedetta Veronesi, Teresa Paneque-Carreno, Giuseppe Lodato +4

Recent multi-wavelength ALMA observations of the protoplanetary disk orbiting around Elias 2-27 revealed a two armed spiral structure. The observed morphology together with the you…