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most citedCO and dust properties in the TW Hya disk from high-resolution ALMA observations

153 citations · 509 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Dust Substructures and Line Perturbations driven by a Forming Planet in J16120

Anibal Sierra, Andrés F. Izquierdo, Paola Pinilla +18

Hints of planet formation have been independently reported within the gap of the disc around 2MASS J16120668-301027 from millimetre continuum, infrared, and H-alpha observations. I…

astro-ph.EP2026

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): Formaldehyde (HCO) emission and its links to disk properties

Ella Chevalier, Ke Zhang, Miguel Vioque +7

Protoplanetary disks are rotating structures of gas and dust surrounding young stars, serving as the birth places of planets. Understanding the chemical evolution of organic materi…

astro-ph.EP2026

Evidence for Systematically Larger Dust Grains in Upper Scorpius Relative to Taurus Disks

Yao Liu, Ilaria Pascucci, Fei Gao +10

Infrared spectroscopy provides a powerful diagnostic for probing the mineralogical properties of dust grains in the terrestrial planet-forming regions of protoplanetary disks. The…

astro-ph.EP2026

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): Constraints on disk turbulence, fragmentation velocity, and inner pebble fluxes

Lilian Luo, Paola Pinilla, Camila Pulgarés +14

How substructures and disk properties affect dust evolution and the delivery of solids and volatiles into planet-forming regions remains an open question. We present results from t…

astro-ph.EP2026

JWST/MIRI Hydrocarbon and Water Absorption in the Wind of a Young Disk: Signatures of Pebble Drift and Carbon Grain Sublimation

María José Colmenares, Edwin A. Bergin, Ke Zhang +27

We present JWST/MIRI-MRS observations of ISO-Oph 37, a highly inclined flat-spectrum (1 Myr old) source, to investigate the chemical composition and dynamical origin of i…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Compact CO emission and no evidence of radial drift. ALMA observations of the faintest planet-forming disks in Lupus

Giulia Ricciardi, Francesco Zagaria, Anna Miotello +13

A large fraction of planet-forming disks observed with ALMA show faint CO emission, often interpreted as strong CO depletion. However, faint emission may also arise from spatially…

astro-ph.EP2025

Resolving the large exoKuiper belt of the HD 126062 debris disc and extended gas emission in its vicinity

James M. Miley, Grant M. Kennedy, Alvaro Ribas +8

Intermediate-mass stars (1-3 Msun) host some of the brightest and best-studied debris discs. This stellar class is also the most frequent host of molecular gas in systems older tha…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 4 cited

The 12CO Gas Structures of Protoplanetary Disks in the Upper Scorpius Region

Luigi Zallio, Giovanni P. Rosotti, Miguel Vioque +13

We present measurements of key protoplanetary disk properties inferred from parametric models of ALMA 12CO spectral line visibilities. We derive gas-disk radii, integrated fluxes,…

astro-ph.EP2025

Observational Constraints on Evolution of Dust Disc Properties in Upper Scorpius

Paola Pinilla, Anibal Sierra, Nicolas T. Kurtovic +8

Protoplanetary discs in the Upper Scorpius star-forming region are excellent laboratories to investigate late stages of planet formation. In this work, we analyse the morphology of…

astro-ph.EP2025

Discovery of H Emission from a Protoplanet Candidate Around the Young Star 2MASS J16120668-3010270 with MagAO-X

Jialin Li, Laird M. Close, Feng Long +32

2MASS J16120668-3010270 (hereafter 2MJ1612) is a young M0 star that hosts a protoplanetary disk in the Upper Scorpious star-forming region. Recent ALMA observations of 2MJ1612 show…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 11 cited

A young gas giant and hidden substructures in a protoplanetary disk

Álvaro Ribas, Miguel Vioque, Francesco Zagaria +7

The detection of planets in protoplanetary disks has proven to be extremely challenging. In contrast, rings and gaps, usually attributed to planet-disk interactions, have been foun…

astro-ph.EP2025

Leaky dust trap in the PDS 70 disk revealed by ALMA Band 9 observations

Anibal Sierra, Myriam Benisty, Paola Pinilla +13

We present new observations of the PDS 70 disc obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) in Band 9 (671 GHz) at 0.242 resolution, whic…

astro-ph.EP2025

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): XI. Beam-corrected gas disk sizes from fitting 12CO moment zero maps

Leon Trapman, Miguel Vioque, Nicolás T. Kurtovic +16

The inward drift of mm-cm sized pebbles in protoplanetary disks has become an important part of our current theories of planet formation and, more recently, planet composition as w…

astro-ph.EP2025

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): X. Dust Substructures, Disk Geometries, and Dust-disk Radii

Miguel Vioque, Nicolás T. Kurtovic, Leon Trapman +18

We perform visibility fitting to the dust continuum Band 6 1.3 mm data of the 30 protoplanetary disks in the AGE-PRO ALMA Large Program. We obtain disk geometries, dust-disk radii,…

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

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): XII. Extreme millimetre variability detected in a Class II disc

James M. Miley, Laura M. Perez, Carolina Agurto-Gangas +15

Variability of millimetre wavelength continuum emission from Class II protoplanetary disks is extremely rare, and when detected it is usually interpreted as originating from non-th…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 16 cited

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): VIII. The impact of external photoevaporation on disk masses and radii in Upper Scorpius

Rossella Anania, Giovanni P. Rosotti, Matías Gárate +18

Protoplanetary disk evolution can be deeply influenced by the UV radiation emitted by neighboring massive stars (mainly of spectral type O and B). We show that the process of exter…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 9 cited

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): VI. Comparison of Dust Evolution Models to AGE-PRO Observations

Nicolas T. Kurtovic, Matias Gárate, Paola Pinilla +18

The potential for planet formation of a circumstellar disk depends on the dust and gas reservoirs, which evolve as a function of the disk age. The ALMA Large Program AGE-PRO has me…

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.EP2024

Constraints on the physical origin of large cavities in transition disks from multi-wavelength dust continuum emission

Anibal Sierra, Laura M. Pérez, Benjamín Sotomayor +8

The physical origin of the large cavities observed in transition disks is to date still unclear. Different physical mechanisms (e.g., a companion, dead zones, enhanced grain growth…