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most citedGaps and Rings in an ALMA Survey of Disks in the Taurus Star-forming Region

530 citations · 6k across the 86 of their papers we have counts for

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88 papers

cs.CL2026

FOLD: Position-Free Far Memory with Local Order for Long-Context Speculative Decoding

Shuxuan Li, Jialiang Kang, Yanghao Zhou +2

Speculative decoding accelerates LLM generation through lightweight drafting and parallel verification. It is particularly promising for long inputs, where KV-cache access costs ca…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Gaps and Rings: A Near-Universal Trait of Extended Protoplanetary Discs

Quincy Bosschaart, Osmar M. Guerra-Alvarado, Nienke van der Marel +1

Substructures such as rings, gaps, and cavities are commonly observed in protoplanetary discs and are thought to play a key role in dust evolution and planet formation. However, a…

astro-ph.EP2026

The Radius Cliff is a Waterfall: Explaining Sub-Neptune Exoplanets with Steam Worlds

Aritra Chakrabarty, Gijs D. Mulders, Artyom Aguichine +1

The demographics of Kepler planets provide a key testbed for models of planet formation and evolution, particularly for explaining the radius valley separating super-Earths and sub…

astro-ph.EP2025

Are We There Yet? Challenges in Quantifying the Frequency of Earth Analogs in the Habitable Zone

Rachel B. Fernandes, Samson Johnson, Galen J. Bergsten +43

Searching for life elsewhere in the universe is one of the most highly prioritized pursuits in astronomy today. However, the ability to observe evidence of Earth-like life through…

astro-ph.EP2025

Why Estimating is Difficult: A Kepler-Centric Perspective

Steve Bryson, Michelle Kunimoto, Ruslan Belikov +13

, the occurrence rate of rocky habitable zone exoplanets orbiting Sun-like stars, is of great interest to both the astronomical community and the general public. The Ke…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

New migration patterns in high planet-star mass ratio systems in disks with low viscosity

Mariana Sánchez, Sijme-Jan Paardekooper, Nienke van der Marel +2

Migration of giant planets remains a complex topic. While significant progress has been made for high-viscosity disks, the migration of planets with large planet-star mass ratios i…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Diversity in planetary architectures from pebble accretion: Water delivery to the habitable zone with pebble snow

Sean McCloat, Gijs Mulders, Sherry Fieber-Beyer

"Pebble snow" describes a planet formation mechanism where icy pebbles in the outer disk reach inner planet embryos as the water ice line evolves inward. We model the effects pebbl…

astro-ph.EP2025

ALMA High-resolution Observation for the Transitional Disk around IRAS 04125+2902

Ayumu Shoshi, Takayuki Muto, Quincy Bosschaart +5

Recently, the youngest transiting planet was discovered around the T Tauri star, IRAS 04125+2902, in the Taurus-Auriga star-forming region. This system is crucial for understanding…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 4 cited

Radius valley scaling among low mass stars with TESS

Harshitha M. Parashivamurthy, Gijs D. Mulders

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been highly successful in detecting planets in close orbits around low-mass stars, particularly M dwarfs. This presents a valua…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 26 cited

A high-resolution survey of protoplanetary disks in Lupus and the nature of compact disks

Osmar M. Guerra-Alvarado, Nienke van der Marel, Jonathan P. Williams +4

Most of the exoplanets discovered in our galaxy to date orbit low-mass stars, which tend to host small disks in their early stages. To better elucidate the link between planet form…

astro-ph.EP2025

Signatures of Atmospheric Mass Loss and Planet Migration in the Time Evolution of Short-Period Transiting Exoplanets

Rachel B. Fernandes, Galen J. Bergsten, Gijs D. Mulders +19

Comparative studies of young and old exoplanet populations offer a glimpse into how planets may form and evolve with time. We present an occurrence rate study of short-period (1…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

Rocky planet formation in compact disks around M dwarfs

M. Sanchez, N. van der Marel, M. Lambrechts +2

Rocky planets in compact configurations are the most common ones around M dwarfs. Many disks around very low mass stars (between 0.1 and 0.5 M) are rather compact and small…

astro-ph.EP2024

Small and Large Dust Cavities in Disks around mid-M Stars in Taurus

Yangfan Shi, Feng Long, Gregory J. Herczeg +10

High-angular resolution imaging by ALMA has revealed the near-universality and diversity of substructures in protoplanetary disks. However, disks around M-type pre-main-sequence st…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

No Evidence for More Earth-sized Planets in the Habitable Zone of Kepler's M versus FGK Stars

Galen J. Bergsten, Ilaria Pascucci, Kevin K. Hardegree-Ullman +3

Reliable detections of Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone remain elusive in the Kepler sample, even for M dwarfs. The Kepler sample was once thought to contain a considerabl…

astro-ph.EP2023

Where are the Water Worlds? Identifying the Exo-water-worlds Using Models of Planet Formation and Atmospheric Evolution

Aritra Chakrabarty, Gijs D. Mulders

Planet formation models suggest that the small exoplanets that migrate from beyond the snowline of the protoplanetary disk likely contain water-ice-rich cores ( by mass)…

astro-ph.EP2023

Using Photometrically-Derived Properties of Young Stars to Refine TESS's Transiting Young Planet Survey Completeness

Rachel B. Fernandes, Kevin K. Hardegree-Ullman, Ilaria Pascucci +7

The demographics of young exoplanets can shed light onto their formation and evolution processes. Exoplanet properties are derived from the properties of their host stars. As such,…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

The Effect of Dust Evolution and Traps on Inner Disk Water Enrichment

Anusha Kalyaan, Paola Pinilla, Sebastiaan Krijt +6

Substructures in protoplanetary disks can act as dust traps that shape the radial distribution of pebbles. By blocking the passage of pebbles, the presence of gaps in disks may hav…

astro-ph.IM2023

Enabling Exoplanet Demographics Studies with Standardized Exoplanet Survey Meta-Data

Prepared by the ExoPAG Science Interest Group, 2 on Exoplanet Demographics, Jessie L. Christiansen +18

Goal 1 of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Mathematics Exoplanet Science Strategy is "to understand the formation and evolution of planetary systems as products o…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 6 cited

A Large Double-ring Disk around the Taurus M Dwarf J04124068+2438157

Feng Long, Bin B. Ren, Nicole L. Wallack +23

Planet formation imprints signatures on the physical structures of disks. In this paper, we present high-resolution (50 mas, 8 au) Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Arra…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 37 cited

The Demographics of Kepler's Earths and super-Earths into the Habitable Zone

Galen J. Bergsten, Ilaria Pascucci, Gijs D. Mulders +2

Understanding the occurrence of Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone of Sun-like stars is essential to the search for Earth analogues. Yet a lack of reliable Kepler detections…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 20 cited

Pterodactyls: A Tool to Uniformly Search and Vet for Young Transiting Planets In TESS Primary Mission Photometry

Rachel B. Fernandes, Gijs D. Mulders, Ilaria Pascucci +8

Kepler's short-period exoplanet population has revealed evolutionary features such as the Radius Valley and the Hot Neptune desert that are likely sculpted by atmospheric loss over…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 69 cited

Planet Formation Theory in the Era of ALMA and Kepler: from Pebbles to Exoplanets

Joanna Drazkowska, Bertram Bitsch, Michiel Lambrechts +7

Our understanding of planet formation has been rapidly evolving in recent years. The classical planet formation theory, developed when the only known planetary system was our own S…

astro-ph.EP2021

New evidence for wet accretion of inner solar system planetesimals from meteorites Chelyabinsk andBenenitra

Ziliang Jin, Maitrayee Bose, Tim Lichtenberg +1

We investigated the hydrogen isotopic compositions and water contents of pyroxenes in two recent ordinary chondrite falls, namely, Chelyabinsk (2013 fall) and Benenitra (2018 fall)…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 70 cited

Why do M dwarfs have more transiting planets?

Gijs D. Mulders, Joanna Drążkowska, Nienke van der Marel +2

We propose a planet formation scenario to explain the elevated occurrence rates of transiting planets around M dwarfs compared to sun-like stars discovered by Kepler. We use a pebb…