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most citedAbundant hydrocarbons in the disk around a very-low-mass star

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astro-ph.SR2026

JWST/MIRI Detection of Molecular H Winds from an Edge-on Class II Source HV Tau C

Vinod Chandra Pathak, P. Manoj, Himanshu Tyagi +14

The evolution of protoplanetary disks is regulated by accretion onto the central star and mass loss through jets and winds. While atomic and ionized outflows are commonly observed,…

astro-ph.SR2026

PRODIGE -- envelope to disk with NOEMA VIII. Sulfur oxides trace a shock caused by a streamer in the inner envelope of a protostar

María Teresa Valdivia-Mena, Jaime E. Pineda, Caroline Gieser +24

(Abridged) Recently, streamers have been observed causing shocks at the outer edge of protoplanetary disks. The study of sulfur-bearing species can help us to understand the physic…

astro-ph.EP2025

MINDS: The molecule-rich disc of the Herbig star HD 35929 revealed with JWST/MIRI

Till Kaeufer, Rens Waters, Danny Gasman +16

Our knowledge of the chemical composition of the gas in the inner disc of intermediate-mass young stars is limited, due to the lack of suitable instrumentation. The launch of JWST…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 5 cited

MINDS. Cha Hα 1, a brown dwarf with a hydrocarbon-rich disk

María Morales-Calderón, Hyerin Jang, Aditya M. Arabhavi +23

Context. Recent JWST observations have shown that brown dwarfs (BD) are chemically rich, offering valuable insights into giant planet formation. Aims. As part of the MIRI mid-INfra…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 17 cited

A transition from HO to CH dominated spectra with decreasing stellar luminosity

Sierra L. Grant, Milou Temmink, Ewine F. van Dishoeck +19

The chemical composition of the inner regions of disks around young stars will determine the properties of planets forming there. Many disk physical processes drive the chemical ev…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 5 cited

MINDS. Young binary systems with JWST/MIRI: Variable water-rich primaries and extended emission

Nicolas T. Kurtovic, Sierra L. Grant, Milou Temmink +16

As part of the JWST GTO program MINDS, we analyze the mid-infrared emission of three Class II binary systems: VW Cha, WX Cha, and RW Aur, to investigate the impact of stellar multi…

astro-ph.EP2025

MINDS: Detection of an inner gas disk caused by evaporating bodies around HD 172555

M. Samland, T. Henning, A. Caratti o Garatti +23

Mechanisms such as collisions of rocky bodies or cometary activity give rise to dusty debris disks. Debris disks trace the leftover building blocks of planets, and thus also planet…

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★ 28 cited

MINDS: The very low-mass star and brown dwarf sample. Detections and trends in the inner disk gas

A. M. Arabhavi, I. Kamp, Th. Henning +22

Planet-forming disks around brown dwarfs and very low-mass stars (VLMS) are on average less massive and are expected to undergo faster radial solid transport than their higher mass…

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…

astro-ph.EP2025

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

Dary A. Ruíz-Rodríguez, Camilo González-Ruilova, Lucas A. Cieza +17

The ALMA survey of Gas Evolution in PROtoplanetary disks (AGE-PRO) Large Program aims to trace the evolution of gas disk mass and size throughout the lifetime of protoplanetary dis…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 35 cited

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

Ke Zhang, Laura M. Pérez, Ilaria Pascucci +19

We present the ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO), a Large Program of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). AGE-PRO aims to systemati…

astro-ph.EP2025

MINDS. Water reservoirs of compact planet-forming dust disk: A diversity of HO distributions

Milou Temmink, Andrew D. Sellek, Danny Gasman +17

Millimetre-compact dust disks are thought to have efficient radial drift of icy dust pebbles, which has been hypothesised to produce an enhanced cold (400 K) HO reservoir i…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 20 cited

MINDS: The very low-mass star and brown dwarf sample -- Hidden water in carbon-dominated protoplanetary disks

Aditya M. Arabhavi, Inga Kamp, Ewine F. van Dishoeck +21

Infrared observations of the inner disks around very low-mass stars (VLMS, 0.3) have revealed a carbon-rich gas composition in the terrestrial planet-forming region…

astro-ph.EP2025

MINDS. Anatomy of a water-rich, inclined, brown dwarf disk: lack of abundant hydrocarbons

Giulia Perotti, Nicolás T. Kurtovic, Thomas Henning +23

2MASS J04381486+2611399 (or J0438) is one of the few young brown dwarfs (BD) with a highly inclined () disk. Here we report results from JWST-MIRI MRS, HST-ACS a…

astro-ph.EP2025

Class I/II Jets with JWST: Mass loss rates, Asymmetries, and Binary induced Wigglings

Naman S. Bajaj, Ilaria Pascucci, Tracy L. Beck +11

We present JWST NIRSpec spectro-imaging observations of jets from four edge-on protoplanetary disks that exhibit clear signatures of MHD disk winds. Bipolar jets are detected and s…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

MINDS. The influence of outer dust disc structure on the volatile delivery to the inner disc

Danny Gasman, Milou Temmink, Ewine F. van Dishoeck +18

ALMA has revealed that the millimetre dust structures of protoplanetary discs are extremely diverse. It has been proposed that the strength of HO emission in the inner disc par…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 23 cited

MINDS. JWST-MIRI reveals a peculiar CO-rich chemistry in the drift-dominated disk CX Tau

Marissa Vlasblom, Milou Temmink, Sierra L. Grant +20

Radial drift of icy pebbles can have a large impact on the chemistry of the inner regions of protoplanetary disks. Compact dust disks (50 au) are suggested to have a high…

astro-ph.SR2024

MINDS. JWST-MIRI Observations of a Spatially Resolved Atomic Jet and Polychromatic Molecular Wind Toward SY Cha

Kamber R. Schwarz, Matthias Samland, Göran Olofsson +21

The removal of angular momentum from protostellar systems drives accretion onto the central star and may drive the dispersal of the protoplanetary disk. Winds and jets can contribu…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 29 cited

Dust mineralogy and variability of the inner PDS 70 disk

Hyerin Jang, Rens Waters, Till Kaeufer +17

The inner disk of the young star PDS 70 may be a site of rocky planet formation, with two giant planets detected further out. Solids in the inner disk may inform us about the origi…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 27 cited

MINDS. A multi-instrument investigation into the molecule-rich JWST-MIRI spectrum of the DF Tau binary system

Sierra L. Grant, Nicolas T. Kurtovic, Ewine F. van Dishoeck +26

Most stars form in multiple systems whose properties can significantly impact circumstellar disk evolution. We investigate the physical and chemical properties of the equal-mass, s…

astro-ph.EP2024

MINDS. The DR Tau disk II: probing the hot and cold HO reservoirs in the JWST-MIRI spectrum

Milou Temmink, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Danny Gasman +14

The MRS mode of the JWST-MIRI instrument gives insights into the chemical richness and complexity of the inner regions of planet-forming disks. Here, we analyse the HO-rich spe…