3 papers
astro-ph.SR2024
Sites of Planet Formation in Binary Systems. II. Double the Disks in DF Tau
Taylor Kutra, Lisa Prato, Benjamin M Tofflemire +8
This article presents the latest results of our ALMA program to study circumstellar disk characteristics as a function of orbital and stellar properties in a sample of young binary…
astro-ph.EP2024
Eccentric Gas Disk Orbiting the White Dwarf SDSS J1228+1040
Olcay Ates Goksu, Taylor Kutra, Yanqin Wu
Metal pollution onto white dwarfs is a wide-spread phenomenon that remains puzzling. Some of these white dwarfs also harbour gaseous debris disks. Emission lines from these disks o…
astro-ph.EP2024
Irradiated Disks May Settle into Staircases
Taylor Kutra, Yanqin Wu, Yoram Lithwick
Much of a protoplanetary disk is thermally controlled by irradiation from the central star. Such a disk, long thought to have a smoothly flaring shape, is unstable to the so-called…