11 papers
JWST-MIRI's multi-dimensional view of mass loss in the irradiated disks of NGC 1977
Alice S. Booth, Qijia Zhou, Jinyoung Serena Kim +10
The evolution of protoplanetary disks, and consequently the outcomes of planet formation, are thought to be significantly altered in regions containing massive stars. Extreme cases…
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…
Extreme Debris Disks: Insights into Violent Collisions in Planet Formation and Destruction
Kate Y. L. Su, Attila Moor, Agnes Kospal +7
Debris disks are dusty structures around mature stars, primarily identified by infrared excesses in the stellar spectra. A subset, known as extreme debris disks (EDDs), exhibits st…
JWST-DECO: Temporal Variations in the Mid-IR Silicate Features of Two T Tauri Discs Based on Spitzer and JWST observations
N. Sameshima, T. Miyata, T. Kamizuka +9
Mid-infrared spectra of planet-forming discs commonly show prominent silicate emission, whose spectral shape is sensitive to the disc temperature distribution as well as its minera…
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…