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most citedObservations of edge-on protoplanetary disks with ALMA I. Results from continuum data

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astro-ph.EP2026

JWST Imaging of Edge-on Protoplanetary Disks. V. Flux Ratio Reversal and Disk-edge Structure in the Flying Saucer

Jie Ma, Karl R. Stapelfeldt, Marion Villenave +8

We present near- and mid-infrared broadband imaging observations of the edge-on protoplanetary disk 2MASS J16281370-2431391, a.k.a. the 'Flying Saucer', obtained with NIRCam and MI…

astro-ph.EP2026

Interpreting the scattering surface in protoplanetary disks

Massimiliano Bolchini, Giovanni Rosotti, Marion Villenave +5

In recent years, extreme adaptive optics have enabled high-resolution, high-contrast scattered-light observations of protoplanetary disks. Interpreting these observations requires…

astro-ph.EP2026

Azimuthal brightness modulation reveals hidden rings in CI Tau

C. E. Scardoni, G. P. Rosotti, F. Zagaria +4

Protoplanetary disks often host substructures such as rings and gaps, which trace key processes in planet formation and dust evolution. However, narrow rings may remain unresolved…

astro-ph.EP2026

Demographics of planet-forming disks with the SKAO

Antonio Garufi, Sebastián Pérez, John D. Ilee +21

Understanding how solid material in planet-forming disks evolves from micron-sized dust to planetary cores is a central challenge in modern astrophysics. This study has advanced dr…

astro-ph.EP2026

Substructures in Planet-Forming Disks with the SKAO

Yinhao Wu, Jessica Speedie, Sebastián Pérez +33

Disks of gas and dust orbiting young stars are the arenas and material reservoirs for planet formation. Over the past decade, multiwavelength observations, from infrared to radio,…

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.SR2026

Observations of highly inclined disks with ALMA. Results from 12CO gas and continuum observations

Laurine Martinien, Gaspard Duchêne, Álvaro Ribas +4

[Abridged] We aim to study the radial and vertical extents of 12CO gas, millimeter dust thermal emission and optical/NIR scattered light by dust in disks. We analyze a sample of 14…

astro-ph.SR2026

Dust traps and gas kinematic signatures in a crescent structure of a planet-forming disk

Greta Guidi, François Menard, Daniel J. Price +2

In the past few years, ALMA unveiled a variety of substructures (rings, spirals, crescents) in the continuum emission of most protoplanetary disks imaged at high spatial resolution…

astro-ph.SR2026

Benchmarking pre-main sequence stellar evolutionary tracks using disk-based dynamical stellar masses

Luigi Zallio, Miguel Vioque, Sean M. Andrews +14

Stellar masses are a fundamental property to understand models of pre-main sequence evolution, but their values derived from Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagrams are strongly model de…

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.SR2025

An Introduction to Dust Evolution and Vertical Transport in Protoplanetary Disks

Marion Villenave

This tutorial is an introduction to observational studies of dust transport and evolution in protoplanetary disks. Spatially resolved observations of disks at multiple wavelengths…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 7 cited

Asymmetric Signatures of Warps in Edge-on Disks

Carolin N. Kimmig, Marion Villenave

Protoplanetary disks observed edge-on commonly show asymmetries that can be caused by shadows cast from a warp. With the growing amount of these observations, methods to constrain…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Gravito-turbulent bi-fluid protoplanetary discs: 1. An analytical perspective to stratification

S. Rendon Restrepo, U. Ziegler, M. Villenave +1

Context. In Class 0/I and the outskirts of Class II circumstellar discs, the self-gravity of gas significantly affects the disc's vertical hydrostatic equilibrium. The contribution…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Turbulence in protoplanetary disks: A systematic analysis of dust settling in 33 disks

M. Villenave, G. Rosotti, M. Lambrechts +7

The level of dust vertical settling and radial dust concentration in disks is of critical importance for understanding the efficiency of planet formation. We present the first unif…

astro-ph.EP2025

JWST Imaging of Edge-on Protoplanetary Disks. IV. Mid-infrared Dust Scattering in the HH 30 disk

Ryo Tazaki, François Ménard, Gaspard Duchêne +10

We present near- and mid-infrared (IR) broadband imaging observations of the edge-on protoplanetary disk around HH 30 with the James Webb Space Telescope/Near Infrared Camera (NIRC…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 46 cited

JWST/NIRSpec Reveals the Nested Morphology of Disk Winds from Young Stars

Ilaria Pascucci, Tracy L. Beck, Sylvie Cabrit +15

Radially extended disk winds could be the key to unlocking how protoplanetary disks accrete and how planets form and migrate. A distinctive characteristic is their nested morpholog…

astro-ph.SR2024

JWST imaging of edge-on protoplanetary disks. III. Drastic morphological transformation across the mid-infrared in Oph163131

Marion Villenave, Karl R. Stapelfeldt, Gaspard Duchene +6

We present JWST broadband images of the highly inclined protoplanetary disk SSTc2d J163131.2-242627 (Oph163131) from 2.0 to 21m. The images show a remarkable evolution in disk s…

astro-ph.EP2024

A Survey of Protoplanetary Disks Using the Keck/NIRC2 Vortex Coronagraph

Nicole L. Wallack, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Garreth Ruane +34

Recent Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of protoplanetary disks in the millimeter continuum have shown a variety of radial gaps, cavities, and spira…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 24 cited

Into the thick of it: ALMA 0.45 mm observations of HL Tau at 2 au resolution

Osmar M. Guerra-Alvarado, Carlos Carrasco-González, Enrique Macías +7

Aims. To comprehend the efficiency of dust evolution within protoplanetary disks, it is crucial to conduct studies of these disks using high-resolution observations at multiple wav…

astro-ph.SR2023

JWST imaging of edge-on protoplanetary disks II. Appearance of edge-on disks with a tilted inner region: case study of IRAS04302+2247

M. Villenave, K. R. Stapelfeldt, G. Duchene +6

We present JWST imaging from 2m to 21m of the edge-on protoplanetary disk around the embedded young star IRAS04302+2247. The structure of the source shows two reflection nebu…

astro-ph.EP2023

JWST imaging of edge-on protoplanetary disks. I. Fully vertically mixed 10m grains in the outer regions of a 1000 au disk

G. Duchene, F. Menard, K. Stapelfeldt +6

Scattered light imaging of protoplanetary disks provides key insights on the geometry and dust properties in the disk surface. Here we present JWST 2--21\,m images of a 1000\,au…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 13 cited

Demographics of Protoplanetary Disks: A Simulated Population of Edge-on Systems

Isabel Angelo, Gaspard Duchêne, Karl Stapelfeldt +9

The structure of protoplanetary disks plays an essential role in planet formation. Disks that are highly inclined, or ''edge-on'', are of particular interest since their geometry p…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 28 cited

The ALMA view of MP Mus (PDS 66): a protoplanetary disk with no visible gaps down to 4 au scales

Á. Ribas, E. Macías, P. Weber +12

We present ALMA multiwavelength observations of the protoplanetary disk around the nearby (d100 pc) young solar analog MP Mus (PDS 66). These observations at 0.89 mm, 1.3 mm,…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 36 cited

Modest dust settling in the IRAS04302+2247 Class I protoplanetary disk

M. Villenave, L. Podio, G. Duchene +11

We present new VLA observations, between 6.8mm and 66mm, of the edge-on Class~I disk IRAS04302+2247. Observations at 6.8mm and 9.2mm lead to the detection of thermal emission from…