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

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60 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

JWST/MIRI Imaging Search for Kinematically Detected Protoplanetary Candidates

G. Cugno, M. Benisty, R. Teague +32

Kinematic perturbations observed with ALMA in CO line emission provide evidence for a population of embedded giant protoplanets shaping the structure of protoplanetary disks. We pr…

astro-ph.EP2026

SMA Observations Reveal Abundant HNC Chemistry in Transition Disks

Kyle Gresko, Charles J. Law, Deryl E. Long +8

The physical and chemical conditions of protoplanetary disks shape the properties of nascent planetary systems. The line ratios and relative abundances of the HCN-HNC isomer pair a…

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

Probing Dust in the MWC 480 Disk from Millimeter to Centimeter Wavelengths

Yangfan Shi, Feng Long, Enrique Macías +12

We present deep, high-resolution (100 mas) Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) Ka-band (9.1 mm) observations of the disk around MWC 480, and infer dust properties through a…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 17 cited

The centimeter emission from planet-forming disks in Taurus

Antonio Garufi, Carlos Carrasco-Gonzalez, Enrique Macias +16

The last decade has witnessed remarkable advances in the characterization of the (sub-)millimeter emission from planet-forming disks. Instead, the study of the (sub-)centimeter emi…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

High Resolution ALMA Observations of Richly Structured Protoplanetary Disks in Orionis

Jane Huang, Megan Ansdell, Tilman Birnstiel +5

ALMA has detected substructures in numerous protoplanetary disks at radii from a few to over a hundred au. These substructures are commonly thought to be associated with planet for…

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.EP2024

JWST-MIRI Spectroscopy of Warm Molecular Emission and Variability in the AS 209 Disk

Carlos E. Romero-Mirza, Karin I. Öberg, Andrea Banzatti +24

We present MIRI MRS observations of the large, multi-gapped protoplanetary disk around the T-Tauri star AS 209. The observations reveal hundreds of water vapor lines from 4.9 to 25…

astro-ph.EP2023

Water-Rich Disks around Late M-stars Unveiled: Exploring the Remarkable Case of Sz114

Chengyan Xie, Ilaria Pascucci, Feng Long +18

We present an analysis of the JDISC JWST/MIRI-MRS spectrum of Sz~114, an accreting M5 star surrounded by a large dust disk with a shallow gap at au. The spectrum is molec…

astro-ph.EP2023

High-contrast JWST-MIRI spectroscopy of planet-forming disks for the JDISC Survey

Klaus M. Pontoppidan, Colette Salyk, Andrea Banzatti +26

The JWST Disk Infrared Spectral Chemistry Survey (JDISCS) aims to understand the evolution of the chemistry of inner protoplanetary disks using the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) o…

astro-ph.SR2023

Dual-Band Observations of the Asymmetric Ring around CIDA 9A: Dead or Alive?

Daniel Harsono, Feng Long, Paola Pinilla +9

While the most exciting explanation of the observed dust asymmetries in protoplanetary disks is the presence of protoplanets, other mechanisms can also form the dust features. This…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 2 cited

UV-Optical Emission of AB Aur b is Consistent with Scattered Stellar Light

Yifan Zhou, Brendan P. Bowler, Haifeng Yang +12

The proposed protoplanet AB Aur b is a spatially concentrated emission source imaged in the mm-wavelength disk gap of the Herbig Ae/Be star AB Aur. Its near-infrared spectrum and a…

astro-ph.EP2023

MAPS: Constraining Serendipitous Time Variability in Protoplanetary Disk Molecular Ion Emission

Abygail R. Waggoner, L. Ilsedore Cleeves, Ryan A. Loomis +12

Theoretical models and observations suggest that the abundances of molecular ions in protoplanetary disks should be highly sensitive to the variable ionization conditions set by th…

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.EP2023★ 3 cited

JWST reveals excess cool water near the snowline in compact disks, consistent with pebble drift

Andrea Banzatti, Klaus M. Pontoppidan, John Carr +19

Previous analyses of mid-infrared water spectra from young protoplanetary disks observed with the Spitzer-IRS found an anti-correlation between water luminosity and the millimeter…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 18 cited

Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). Complex Kinematics in the AS 209 Disk Induced by a Forming Planet and Disk Winds

Maria Galloway-Sprietsma, Jaehan Bae, Richard Teague +19

We study the kinematics of the AS 209 disk using the J=2-1 transitions of CO, CO, and CO. We derive the radial, azimuthal, and vertical velocity of the gas, ta…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 26 cited

Substructures in Compact Disks of the Taurus Star-forming Region

Shangjia Zhang, Matt Kalscheur, Feng Long +5

Observations of substructure in protoplanetary disks have largely been limited to the brightest and largest disks, excluding the abundant population of compact disks which are like…

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

Mapping Protoplanetary Disk Vertical Structure with CO Isotopologue Line Emission

Charles J. Law, Richard Teague, Karin I. Öberg +21

High spatial resolution observations of CO isotopologue line emission in protoplanetary disks at mid-inclinations (30-75°) allow us to characterize the gas structure in…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 41 cited

ALMA Detection of Dust Trapping around Lagrangian Points in the LkCa 15 Disk

Feng Long, Sean M. Andrews, Shangjia Zhang +10

We present deep high-resolution (50 mas, 8 au) ALMA 0.88 and 1.3 mm continuum observations of the LkCa 15 disk. The emission morphology shows an inner cavity and three dust r…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 18 cited

Accretion Burst Echoes as Probes of Protostellar Environments and Episodic Mass Assembly

Logan Francis, Doug Johnstone, Jeong-Eun Lee +5

Protostars likely accrete material at a highly time variable rate, however, measurements of accretion variability from the youngest protostars are rare, as they are still deeply em…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 42 cited

HST/WFC3 H Direct-Imaging Detection of a Point-like Source in the Disk Cavity of AB Aur

Yifan Zhou, Aniket Sanghi, Brendan P. Bowler +8

Accreting protoplanets enable the direct characterization of planet formation. As part of a high-contrast imaging search for accreting planets with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 64 cited

Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). A Circumplanetary Disk Candidate in Molecular Line Emission in the AS 209 Disk

Jaehan Bae, Richard Teague, Sean M. Andrews +29

We report the discovery of a circumplanetary disk (CPD) candidate embedded in the circumstellar disk of the T Tauri star AS 209 at a radial distance of about 200 au (on-sky separat…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 22 cited

Disk Evolution Study Through Imaging of Nearby Young Stars (DESTINYS): A Panchromatic View of DO Tau's Complex Kilo-au Environment

Jane Huang, Christian Ginski, Myriam Benisty +20

While protoplanetary disks are often treated as isolated systems in planet formation models, observations increasingly suggest that vigorous interactions between Class II disks and…