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astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Direct Imaging Discovery of Giant Exoplanet Pictoris d: A Decade-Long Game of Hide-and-Seek

Ben J. Sutlieff, Markus J. Bonse, Valentin Christiaens +94

We report the direct imaging discovery of a third exoplanet in the Pictoris system. We detect Pictoris d ( Pic d) in non-coronagraphic observations obtained with VLT/ERI…

astro-ph.EP2026

Using VLTI/GRAVITY+ to determine the identity of a third planet candidate in the PDS 70 system

David Trevascus, Wolfgang Brandner, Olga Balsalobre-Ruza +75

Detections of protoplanets are rare and protoplanetary disk features mischaracterized as planets are common. PDS 70 is one of only two stars known to host multiple confirmed protop…

astro-ph.EP2026

Multi-epoch scattered-light analysis of HD 135344B: new evidence for a spiral-driving protoplanet

J. Latour, V. Christiaens, O. Absil +17

The HD 135344B (SAO 206462) disk exhibits strong signposts of planet formation. ALMA images in the sub-mm revealed a gap-crossing dust filament whose position coincides with a twis…

astro-ph.EP2026

Two inner dust clumps in PDS 70. A third protoplanet traced by trojan material or a substructured inner disk?

O. Balsalobre-Ruza, V. Christiaens, N. Huélamo +18

The PDS 70 cavity hosts two confirmed directly imaged protoplanets and a third inner planet candidate at 13au, labeled PDS 70 d. Despite its Keplerian motion, its unusually blue sp…

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

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★ 10 cited

Differentiating Formation Models with New Dynamical Masses for the PDS 70 Protoplanets

David Trevascus, Sarah Blunt, Valentin Christiaens +22

Hot- and cold-start planet formation models predict differing luminosities for the young, bright planets that direct imaging surveys are most sensitive to. However, precise mass es…

astro-ph.EP2025

exoALMA VII: Benchmarking Hydrodynamics and Radiative Transfer Codes

Jaehan Bae, Mario Flock, Andres Izquierdo +25

Forward modeling is often used to interpret substructures observed in protoplanetary disks. To ensure the robustness and consistency of the current forward modeling approach from t…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 8 cited

Keplerian motion of a compact source orbiting the inner disc of PDS 70: a third protoplanet in resonance with b and c?

Iain Hammond, Valentin Christiaens, Daniel J. Price +10

The disc around PDS 70 hosts two directly imaged protoplanets in a gap. Previous VLT/SPHERE and recent James Webb Space Telescope/NIRCam observations have hinted at the presence of…

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★ 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★ 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.…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 36 cited

exoALMA XII: Weighing and sizing exoALMA disks with rotation curve modelling

Cristiano Longarini, Giuseppe Lodato, Giovanni Rosotti +38

The exoALMA large program offers a unique opportunity to investigate the fundamental properties of protoplanetary disks, such as their masses and sizes, providing important insight…

astro-ph.EP2025

exoALMA. X. channel maps reveal complex CO abundance distributions and a variety of kinematic structures with evidence for embedded planets

Christophe Pinte, John D. Ilee, Jane Huang +34

We analyze the CO data cubes of the disks in the exoALMA program. 13/15 disks reveal a variety of kinematic substructures in individual channels: large-scale arcs or…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

exoALMA I. Science Goals, Project Design and Data Products

Richard Teague, Myriam Benisty, Stefano Facchini +40

Planet formation is a hugely dynamic process requiring the transport, concentration and assimilation of gas and dust to form the first planetesimals and cores. With access to extre…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 71 cited

Confirmation and Keplerian motion of the gap-carving protoplanet HD 169142 b

Iain Hammond, Valentin Christiaens, Daniel J. Price +4

We present the re-detection of a compact source in the face-on protoplanetary disc surrounding HD 169142, using VLT/SPHERE data in YJH bands. The source is found at a separation of…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 15 cited

Kinematic and thermal signatures of the directly imaged protoplanet candidate around Elias 2-24

Christophe Pinte, Iain Hammond, Daniel J. Price +9

We report kinematic and thermal signatures associated with the directly imaged protoplanet candidate in the Elias 2-24 disc. Using the DSHARP ALMA observations of the CO J=2…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 16 cited

A kinematic excess in the annular gap and gas depleted cavity in the disc around HD 169142

Himanshi Garg, Christophe Pinte, Iain Hammond +6

We present ALMA band 6 images of the 12CO, 13CO and C18O J=2-1 line emissions for the circumstellar disc around HD 169142, at ~8 au spatial resolution. We resolve a central gas dep…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 19 cited

The Origin of the Doppler-flip in HD 100546: a large scale spiral arm generated by an inner binary companion

Brodie J. Norfolk, Christophe Pinte, Josh Calcino +9

Companions at sub-arcsecond separation from young stars are difficult to image. However their presence can be inferred from the perturbations they create in the dust and gas of pro…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 15 cited

External or internal companion exciting the spiral arms in CQ Tau?

Iain Hammond, Valentin Christiaens, Daniel J. Price +9

We present new high-contrast images in near-infrared wavelengths ( = 1.04, 1.24, 1.62, 2.18 and 3.78m) of the young variable star CQ Tau, aiming to constrain the presence of…