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astro-ph.EP2026

Multi-wavelength Constraints on Dust Dynamics and Size Evolution in Protoplanetary Disk Rings. II. Observational Implications

Linhan Yang, Ya-Ping Li, Ruobing Dong +6

Spatially resolved dust rings in protoplanetary disks are widely used to infer disk and dust physics from multi-wavelength continuum observations. Their interpretation, however, of…

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

An archival summary: 15 years of ALMA observations on disks and planet formation

Nicolas T. Kurtovic, Lizxandra Flores-Rivera, Laura M. Perez +15

The Atacama Large (sub-)millimeter Array (ALMA) has been in scientific operations for almost 15 years. We celebrate this achievement by providing a summary of the ``Disks and plane…

astro-ph.EP2026

Diverse dust vertical height and settling strength conditions in protoplanetary discs

Juanita Antilen, Paola Pinilla, Dafa Li +5

The settling of dust particles plays a critical role in the growth and dynamics of dust grains. We performed a detailed modeling of the ALMA continuum substructures for six highly…

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

The Ophiuchus DIsc Survey Employing ALMA (ODISEA). Substructures as a function of SED Class and disc mass in 100 systems

Trisha Bhowmik, Lucas Cieza, J. M. Miley +17

Current high-resolution studies of protoplanetary discs are biased toward small samples of the brightest (flux > 50 mJy at 225 GHz) and largest systems. We present a complete flux-…

astro-ph.EP2026

Young system development in a cometary globule: An investigation into the eccentric disk around AT Pyx in terms of planet-formation and interaction with its surrounding environment

Dan McLachlan, Christian Ginski, Jake Byrne +5

This paper presents new data and analyses of the AT Pyx system, a disk-hosting young star located in a cometary globule in the Gum Nebula. This radiation-driven structure is an unu…

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

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★ 9 cited

Inner disc and circumplanetary material in the PDS 70 system

Daniele Fasano, Myriam Benisty, Pietro Curone +13

The two giant protoplanets directly imaged in the dust-depleted cavity of PDS 70 offer a unique opportunity to study ongoing planet formation. Both planets have been detected in in…

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

Disk Evolution Study Through Imaging of Nearby Young Stars (DESTINYS): Evidence of planet-disk interaction in the 2MASSJ16120668-3010270 system

C. Ginski, P. Pinilla, M. Benisty +28

The architectures of exoplanet systems are likely set during the initial planet-formation phase in the circumstellar disk. To understand this process, we have to study the earliest…

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.EP2025★ 7 cited

The Ophiuchus DIsk Survey Employing ALMA (ODISEA): A Unified Evolutionary Sequence of Planet-Driven Substructures Explaining the Diversity of Disk Morphologies

Santiago Orcajo, Lucas A. Cieza, Octavio Guilera +21

Understanding the origin of substructures in protoplanetary disks and their connection to planet formation is currently one of the main challenges in astrophysics. While some disks…