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Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). XXIV: Systematic Investigation of Disk Structures based on Visibility Analysis
Mayank Narang, Jerry Xu, Leslie W. Looney +11
The dust continuum emission from young protostellar disks encodes key information about their mass distribution and early evolution, yet uniform high-resolution comparative studies…
Nascent Embedded-protostar Survey in Taurus (NEST) I: Protostellar Multiplicity
Aislinn C. Plante, John J. Tobin, Patrick D. Sheehan +5
We present new ALMA 0.9 mm and VLA 9 mm observations in the Taurus Molecular Cloud (TMC) of 25 protostellar systems, containing 40 protostars, observed at 0.3" (~20 au) resolution.…
Nascent Embedded-protostar Survey in Taurus (NEST) II: Measuring Dust Mass, Disk Size, and Gas Mass
Noshin Yesmin, Patrick Sheehan, John Tobin +6
Envelope-embedded protostellar disks represent the earliest stage of protoplanetary disk evolution, but their masses and sizes are difficult to measure because disk emission is ent…
Magneto-Gravitational Regulated Streamer Accretion onto a Class 0 Protostellar System
Bo Huang, Josep M. Girart, Ian W. Stephens +17
How do magnetic fields shape the way young stars gather gas from their birth clouds? Using high-resolution Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations of a young trip…
Azimuthal Dust Polarization from Aerodynamically Aligned Grains as Evidence for the Streaming Instability in Protoplanetary Disks
Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin, Jeonghoon Lim, Jacob B. Simon +8
(Sub)millimeter dust polarization in protoplanetary disks has revealed the presence of large (~ 100 um) dust grains that are aligned along their long axis following the azimuthal d…
Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). XVIII. Indication of a possible spiral structure in the dust-continuum emission of the protostellar disk around IRAS 16544-1604 in CB 68
Sanemichi Z. Takahashi, Shigehisa Takakuwa, Ryosuke Nakanishi +11
We performed numerical simulations along with radiative transfer calculations to reproduce an intriguing asymmetric shoulder feature in the dust-continuum emission of the protostel…
Protostellar Outflows Shed Light on the Dominant Close Companion Star Formation Pathways
Ryan Sponzilli, Leslie Looney, John J. Tobin +11
Understanding the formation pathway for close-companion protostars is central to unraveling the processes that govern stellar multiplicity and very early star formation. We analyze…
Multi-band ALMA Polarization Observations of BHB07-11 Reveal Aligned Dust Grains in Complex Spiral Arm Structures
Austen Fourkas, Leslie W. Looney, Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin +8
Polarization-mode observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are powerful tools for studying the dust grain populations in circumstellar disks. Many…
Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). XIX. Structures of molecular outflows
Anton Feeney-Johansson, Yuri Aikawa, Shigehisa Takakuwa +13
As part of the ALMA Large Program "Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks" (eDisk), 12CO (2 - 1) was observed towards 19 nearby low-mass protostars. Of these objects, 15 sources…
The Rotation Dip in the Envelope-Disk Transition of HH 111: Evidence for Magnetic Braking
Jyun-Heng Lin, Chin-Fei Lee, Zhi-Yun Li +3
Magnetic braking can drive angular momentum loss in star formation and influence disk evolution. A previous study of HH 111 VLA1 suggested a decrease in rotation velocity in a regi…
Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). XX. Constraining the Chemical Tracers of Young Protostellar Sources
Rajeeb Sharma, Jes K. Jørgensen, Merel L. R. van 't Hoff +12
Recent studies indicate that the formation of planets in protoplanetary disks begins early in the embedded Class 0/I phases of protostellar evolution. The physical and chemical mak…
FIELDMAPS Data Release: Far-Infrared Polarization in the "Bones" of the Milky Way
Simon Coudé, Ian W. Stephens, Philip C. Myers +13
Polarization observations of the Milky Way and many other spiral galaxies have found a close correspondence between the orientation of spiral arms and magnetic field lines on scale…
Magnetic Fields in the Bones of the Milky Way
Ian W. Stephens, Simon Coude, Philip C. Myers +20
Stars primarily form in galactic spiral arms within dense, filamentary molecular clouds. The largest and most elongated of these molecular clouds are referred to as ``bones," which…
The Hourglass-shaped Magnetic Fields and Dust Filaments in the HH 211 Protostellar Envelope
Youngwoo Choi, Woojin Kwon, Leslie W. Looney +4
Magnetic fields influence the structure and evolution of protostellar systems, thus understanding their role is essential for probing the earliest stages of star formation. We pres…
SOFIA Polarization Spectrum of Three Star-Forming Clouds
Erin G. Cox, Giles Novak, David T. Chuss +6
The dust emission polarization spectrum -- how the polarization percentage changes with wavelength -- serves as a probe of dust grain properties in star-forming regions. In this pa…
Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) XXII: Keplerian disk, disk structures and jets/outflows in the Class 0 protostar IRAS 04166+2706
Nguyen Thi Phuong, Chang Won Lee, John J. Tobin +20
We present ALMA observations of the Class 0 protostar IRAS 04166+2706, obtained as part of the ALMA large program Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). These observatio…
Detailed radial scale height profile of dust grains as probed by dust self-scattering in HL Tau
Haifeng Yang, Ian W. Stephens, Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin +4
The vertical settling of dust grains in a circumstellar disk, characterized by their scale height, is a pivotal process in the formation of planets. This study offers in-depth anal…
Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) XVII: A Compact but Structured Keplerian Disk and Large-scale Streamers Revealed in the Class I Protostellar System IRAS 04169+2702
Ilseung Han, Woojin Kwon, Yusuke Aso +22
We present high-resolution (0.05"; 8 au) dust continuum and molecular line observations toward the Class I protostellar system IRAS 04169+2702 in the Taurus B213 region, as p…
Magnetic Fields in the Pillars of Creation
Adwitiya Sarkar, Leslie W. Looney, Marc W. Pound +7
Due to dust grain alignment with magnetic fields, dust polarization observations of far-infrared emission from cold molecular clouds are often used to trace magnetic fields, allowi…
Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) XXI: Limited role of streamers in mass supply to the disk in the Class 0 protostar IRAS 16544-1604
Miyu Kido, Hsi-Wei Yen, Jinshi Sai +17
Asymmetric and narrow infalling structures, often called streamers, have been observed in several Class 0/I protostars, which is not expected in the classical star formation pictur…
Characterizing Magnetic Properties of Young Protostars in Orion
Bo Huang, Josep M. Girart, Ian W. Stephens +15
The {\em B}-field Orion Protostellar Survey (BOPS) recently obtained polarimetric observations at 870 towards 61 protostars in the Orion molecular clouds with $\sim 1^{\…
L1448 IRS3B: Dust Polarization Aligned with Spiral Features, Tracing Gas Flows
Leslie W. Looney, Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin, Zhi-Yun Li +11
Circumstellar disk dust polarization in the (sub)millimeter is, for the most part, not from dust grain alignment with magnetic fields but rather indicative of a combination of dust…
Early Grain Growth in the Young Protostellar Disk HH 212 Supported by Dust Self-Scattering Modeling
Ying-Chi Hu, Chin-Fei Lee, Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin +3
Grain growth in disks around young stars plays a crucial role in the formation of planets. Early grain growth has been suggested in the HH 212 protostellar disk by previous polariz…
Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) XVI: An asymmetric dust disk driving a multi-component molecular outflow in the young Class 0 protostar GSS30 IRS3
Alejandro Santamaria-Miranda, Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo, Nagayoshi Ohashi +17
We present the results of the ALMA Large Program Early Planet Formation in Embedded disks observations of the Class 0 protostar GSS30 IRS3. Our observations included 1.3 mm continu…