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most citedThe ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): I. Program Overview and Summary of First Results

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astro-ph.EP2026

The JDISC Survey: Inner Disk Chemistry of Class I/FS Disks and Tentative Evidence for Early Pebble Drift

Ke Zhang, Andrea Banzatti, Colette Salyk +22

We present the first chemical survey of Class I and Flat-Spectrum (I/FS) disks using JWST MIRI/MRS, targeting sixteen sources in the Ophiuchus star-forming region. Through empirica…

astro-ph.EP2026

JWST/MIRI Reveals the Evolution from Molecular to Atomic Disk Winds

Naman S. Bajaj, Ilaria Pascucci, Sylvie Cabrit +10

The evolution and dispersal of protoplanetary disks--governed by accretion, magnetically launched jets and winds, and photoevaporative winds--fundamentally shape planetary systems.…

astro-ph.EP2026

From Young to Older Disks: JWST/MIRI Evidence for Fading Molecular Emission and Hints for Elevated C/O in Upper Scorpius

Chengyan Xie, Ilaria Pascucci, Feng Long +23

We present JWST/MIRI spectroscopy of 14 disks in the older (~5-10 Myr) Upper Scorpius (USco) association and use slab of gas in local thermal equilibrium to infer basic gas propert…

astro-ph.EP2026

Chemical Divergence and Water Depletion: Gas Properties of Evolved Upper Scorpius Disks Revealed by JWST/MIRI

Eshan Raul, Ke Zhang, Abygail Waggoner +25

Tracing the chemical evolution of protoplanetary disks over time requires observations of disks at different ages. However, most JWST/MIRI surveys published to date have targeted y…

astro-ph.EP2026

Molecular Similarity and Water Diversity in Coeval Binary Disks: JWST/MIRI Observations of Sz 65 and Sz 66

Jinghuai Yao, Ke Zhang, Andrea Banzatti +10

We present JWST/MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrometer spectra of the wide-separation (projected separation au) binary protoplanetary disks Sz 65 (K7; ) and Sz…

astro-ph.EP2026

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): Formaldehyde (HCO) emission and its links to disk properties

Ella Chevalier, Ke Zhang, Miguel Vioque +7

Protoplanetary disks are rotating structures of gas and dust surrounding young stars, serving as the birth places of planets. Understanding the chemical evolution of organic materi…

astro-ph.EP2026

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): Constraints on disk turbulence, fragmentation velocity, and inner pebble fluxes

Lilian Luo, Paola Pinilla, Camila Pulgarés +14

How substructures and disk properties affect dust evolution and the delivery of solids and volatiles into planet-forming regions remains an open question. We present results from t…

astro-ph.EP2026

The Ophiuchus DIsc Survey Employing ALMA (ODISEA). Substructures as a function of SED Class and disc mass in 100 systems

Trisha Bhowmik, Lucas Cieza, J. M. Miley +17

Current high-resolution studies of protoplanetary discs are biased toward small samples of the brightest (flux > 50 mJy at 225 GHz) and largest systems. We present a complete flux-…

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

Tracing Pebble Drift History in Two Protoplanetary Disks with CO Enhancement

Tayt Armitage, Joe Williams, Ke Zhang +15

Pebble drift is an important mechanism for supplying the materials needed to build planets in the inner region of protoplanetary disks. Thus, constraining pebble drift's timescales…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Protoplanetary disk cavities with JWST-MIRI: a dichotomy in molecular emission

Patrick Mallaney, Andrea Banzatti, Colette Salyk +24

The evolution of planet-forming regions in protoplanetary disks is of fundamental importance to understanding planet formation. Disks with a central deficit in dust emission, a "ca…

astro-ph.EP2025

Searching for Exoplanets Born Outside the Milky Way: VOYAGERS Survey Design

Robert Aloisi, Andrew Vanderburg, Melinda Soares-Furtado +44

Observations over the past few decades have found that planets are common around nearby stars in our Galaxy, but little is known about planets that formed outside the Milky Way. We…

astro-ph.EP2025

Observational Constraints on Evolution of Dust Disc Properties in Upper Scorpius

Paola Pinilla, Anibal Sierra, Nicolas T. Kurtovic +8

Protoplanetary discs in the Upper Scorpius star-forming region are excellent laboratories to investigate late stages of planet formation. In this work, we analyse the morphology of…

astro-ph.EP2025

Cosmic cascades: How disk substructure regulates the flow of water to inner planetary systems

Sebastiaan Krijt, Andrea Banzatti, Ke Zhang +17

The influx of icy pebbles to the inner regions of protoplanetary disks constitutes a fundamental ingredient in most planet formation theories. The observational determination of th…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

The JDISC Survey: Linking the Physics and Chemistry of Inner and Outer Protoplanetary Disk Zones

Nicole Arulanantham, Colette Salyk, Klaus Pontoppidan +20

Mid-infrared spectroscopy of protoplanetary disks provides a chemical inventory of gas within a few au, where planets are readily detected around older stars. With the JWST Disk In…

astro-ph.EP2025

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): XI. Beam-corrected gas disk sizes from fitting 12CO moment zero maps

Leon Trapman, Miguel Vioque, Nicolás T. Kurtovic +16

The inward drift of mm-cm sized pebbles in protoplanetary disks has become an important part of our current theories of planet formation and, more recently, planet composition as w…

astro-ph.EP2025

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): X. Dust Substructures, Disk Geometries, and Dust-disk Radii

Miguel Vioque, Nicolás T. Kurtovic, Leon Trapman +18

We perform visibility fitting to the dust continuum Band 6 1.3 mm data of the 30 protoplanetary disks in the AGE-PRO ALMA Large Program. We obtain disk geometries, dust-disk radii,…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): VII. Testing accretion mechanisms from disk population synthesis

Benoît Tabone, Giovanni P. Rosotti, Leon Trapman +24

The architecture of planetary systems depends on the evolution of the disks in which they form. In this work, we develop a population synthesis approach to interpret the AGE-PRO me…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): V. Protoplanetary gas disk masses

Leon Trapman, Ke Zhang, Giovanni P. Rosotti +19

The evolution of the gas mass of planet-forming disks around young stars is crucial for our understanding of planet formation, yet it has proven hard to constrain observationally,…

astro-ph.EP2025

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): XII. Extreme millimetre variability detected in a Class II disc

James M. Miley, Laura M. Perez, Carolina Agurto-Gangas +15

Variability of millimetre wavelength continuum emission from Class II protoplanetary disks is extremely rare, and when detected it is usually interpreted as originating from non-th…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 16 cited

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): VIII. The impact of external photoevaporation on disk masses and radii in Upper Scorpius

Rossella Anania, Giovanni P. Rosotti, Matías Gárate +18

Protoplanetary disk evolution can be deeply influenced by the UV radiation emitted by neighboring massive stars (mainly of spectral type O and B). We show that the process of exter…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 9 cited

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): VI. Comparison of Dust Evolution Models to AGE-PRO Observations

Nicolas T. Kurtovic, Matias Gárate, Paola Pinilla +18

The potential for planet formation of a circumstellar disk depends on the dust and gas reservoirs, which evolve as a function of the disk age. The ALMA Large Program AGE-PRO has me…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 18 cited

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): IV. Dust and Gas Disk Properties in the Upper Scorpius Star-forming Region

Carolina Agurto-Gangas, L. M. Pérez, Anibal Sierra +18

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) large program AGE-PRO explores protoplanetary disk evolution by studying gas and dust across various ages. This work focuses…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 20 cited

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): III. Dust and Gas Disk Properties in the Lupus Star-forming Region

Dingshan Deng, Miguel Vioque, Ilaria Pascucci +20

We present Band 6 and Band 7 observations of 10 Lupus disks around M3-K6 stars from the ALMA survey of Gas Evolution in PROtoplanetary disks (AGE-PRO) Large Program. In addition to…