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astro-ph.EP2026

Dust characterization of the HD 163296 disk with high-resolution multi-wavelength ALMA observations

Kiyoaki Doi, Myriam Benisty, Akimasa Kataoka +10

Context. Planets form through the growth and accumulation of dust grains in protoplanetary disks. Characterizing dust properties such as size, surface density, and temperature is k…

astro-ph.EP2026

Direct Retrieval of Protoplanetary Disk Dust Properties using Auto-differentiable Gaussian Processes and Its Application to the HD 169142 Disk

Tomohiro C. Yoshida, Enrique Macías, Giovanni Rosotti +3

Retrieving dust properties in protoplanetary disks, including the surface density distribution, temperature, and grain size distribution, is a fundamental task in observational stu…

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 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

A Protoplanet Candidate in the PDS 66 Disk Indicated by Silicon Sulfide Isotopologues

Tomohiro C. Yoshida, Felipe Alarcón, Jaehan Bae +11

Despite observational progress in planet formation, the stage in which planetesimals grow into planets remains poorly understood. During this phase, protoplanets may develop gaseou…

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

ALMA Band 7 Observations of Water Lines in the Protoplanetary Disk of V883 Ori

Hiroto Nakasone, Shota Notsu, Tomohiro C. Yoshida +8

The FU Orionis star V883 Ori provides a unique opportunity to probe the water snowline in a protoplanetary disk. During an accretion burst, the enhanced stellar luminosity heats th…

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

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★ 9 cited

Inner disc and circumplanetary material in the PDS 70 system

Daniele Fasano, Myriam Benisty, Pietro Curone +13

The two giant protoplanets directly imaged in the dust-depleted cavity of PDS 70 offer a unique opportunity to study ongoing planet formation. Both planets have been detected in in…

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

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★ 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.…