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20022026
most citedDiscovery of a planetary-mass companion within the gap of the transition disk around PDS 70

700 citations · 6.9k across the 135 of their papers we have counts for

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136 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Toward the Italian Astronomical Community's Contribution to HWO: Science, Technology, and Instrument Concepts

A. Fontana, F. Annibali, N. Antonietti +101

This paper summarizes the interest of the Italian astronomical community in the possible participation in the development of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). It is largely b…

astro-ph.EP2026

SaNDi-SHoP: Searching for Satellites'N'Disks with a Star-Hopping Program II. Spectrophotometric analysis and orbital monitoring of directly imaged companions

Andrea Bernardi, Alice Zurlo, Cecilia Lazzoni +6

Over the past decade, advances in high-contrast imaging instrumentation, coupled with extreme adaptive optics systems, have enabled the discovery of tens of planets and brown dwarf…

astro-ph.EP2026

SaNDi-SHoP: Searching for Satellites'N'Disks with a Star-Hopping Program I. Analysis of the close surroundings of DI companions

Cecilia Lazzoni, Alice Zurlo, Silvano Desidera +6

We aim to search for satellites and circumplanetary or circumsubstellar disks around directly imaged substellar companions, exploring their immediate environment to constrain the c…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 8 cited

Characterization of debris disks observed with SPHERE

N. Engler, J. Milli, N. Pawellek +33

This study aims to characterize debris disks observed with SPHERE across multiple programs, with the goal of identifying systematic trends in disk morphology, dust mass, and grain…

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.IM2025

SHINS, the SHARK-NIR Instrument Control Software

Davide Ricci, Fulvio Laudisio, Alessandro Lorenzetto +20

SHARK-NIR is a new compact instrument for coronagraphic imaging, direct imaging, and coronagraphic spectroscopy in the near-infrared wavelengths mounted at LBT. Taking advantage of…