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most citedDust-driven viscous ring-instability in protoplanetary disks

75 citations · 331 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Planet formation on solar system scales

Francesco Zagaria, Andrés F. Izquierdo, Jaehan Bae +32

Giant planets are often regarded as primordial protoplanetary "architects". Their formation and interactions with planetesimals and other planets during and after the protoplanetar…

astro-ph.EP2026

The Influence of Dust Composition on Accretion Outbursts

Nicolas Kaufmann, Anna B. T. Penzlin, Alfie Robinson +3

Context: Episodic accretion outbursts have been shown to occur in protoplanetary discs due to thermal instability at the inner edge of the dead zone. These outbursts periodically h…

astro-ph.EP2026

BOWIE-ALIGN: Exploring degeneracies in the muted transmission spectrum of the aligned hot Jupiter NGTS-2b with NIRSpec/G395H

Charlotte Fairman, Hannah R. Wakeford, Alastair B. Claringbold +15

We present the first atmospheric observation and characterisation of the aligned, 1468 K hot Jupiter, NGTS-2b, with one JWST NIRSpec/G395H transit. These observations complete the…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

The asymmetric structure of the inner disc around HD 142527 A with VLTI/MATISSE

M. B. Scheuck, R. van Boekel, Th. Henning +25

Circumstellar discs, and especially their inner regions, covering ranges from <1 au to a few astronomical units, are the birthplaces of terrestrial planets. The inner regions are t…

astro-ph.EP2026

BOWIE-ALIGN: Sub-solar C/O ratio and metallicity atmosphere of the misaligned hot Jupiter HAT-P-30b

Alastair B. Claringbold, Chloe E. Fisher, James Kirk +18

We present the JWST NIRSpec/G395H transmission spectrum of the misaligned hot Jupiter HAT-P-30b from 2.8--5.2 m as part of the BOWIE-ALIGN survey, a comparative survey designed…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 4 cited

Astrometric view of companions in the inner dust cavities of protoplanetary disks

Miguel Vioque, Richard A. Booth, Enrico Ragusa +16

Protoplanetary disks with inner dust cavities (often referred to as "transition disks") are potential signposts of planet formation. We use Gaia astrometry to search for planetary…

astro-ph.IM2025

TriPoDPy: 1D Tri-Population size distributions forDust evolution in protoplanetary disks

Nicolas Leo Kaufmann, Thomas Pfeil, Sebastian Stammler +3

TriPoDPy is a code simulating the dust evolution, including dust growth and dynamics in protoplanetary disks using the parametric dust model presented in (Pfeil et al., 2024). The…

astro-ph.EP2025

Sculpting protoplanetary discs -- modelling circumbinary cavities at observable scales with radiation hydrodynamics

Anna B. T. Penzlin, Alexandros Ziampras, Nicolas T. Kurtovic +2

Observations of circumbinary discs reveal inner cavities, with their shape and size varying strongly between different systems. The structure of the cavity is determined by the com…

astro-ph.EP2025

BOWIE-ALIGN: Weak spectral features in KELT-7b's JWST NIRSpec/G395H transmission spectrum imply a high cloud deck or a low-metallicity atmosphere

Eva-Maria Ahrer, Charlotte Fairman, James Kirk +20

Hot Jupiters and their atmospheres are prime targets for transmission spectroscopy due to their extended atmospheres and the corresponding large signal-to-noise, providing the best…

astro-ph.EP2025

Modelling shadows in scattered light observations as signals from companions in protoplanetary discs

Deniz Akansoy, Helen C. Petrou, Giulia Ballabio +1

Over the past decade, SPHERE scattered light observations of protoplanetary discs have revealed previously unseen features with unprecedented resolution. One such feature are radia…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

On Linking Planet Formation Models, Protoplanetary Disk Properties, and Mature Gas Giant Exoplanet Atmospheres

Adina D. Feinstein, Richard A. Booth, Jennifer B. Bergner +34

Measuring a single elemental ratio (e.g., carbon-to-oxygen) provides insufficient information for understanding the formation mechanisms and evolution that affect our observations…

astro-ph.EP2025

BOWIE-ALIGN: Sub-stellar metallicity and carbon depletion in the aligned TrES-4b with JWST NIRSpec transmission spectroscopy

Annabella Meech, Alastair B. Claringbold, Eva-Maria Ahrer +19

The formation and migration history of a planet is expected to be imprinted in its atmosphere, in particular its carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratio and metallicity. The BOWIE-ALIGN progr…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Viscous circumbinary protoplanetary discs -- II. Disc effects on the binary orbit

Anna B. T. Penzlin, Richard A. Booth, Richard P. Nelson +2

More than half of all stars are part of binaries, and many form in a common circumbinary disc. The interaction with the binary shapes the disc to feature a large eccentric inner ca…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 23 cited

BOWIE-ALIGN: JWST reveals hints of planetesimal accretion and complex sulphur chemistry in the atmosphere of the misaligned hot Jupiter WASP-15b

James Kirk, Eva-Maria Ahrer, Alastair B. Claringbold +23

We present a transmission spectrum of the misaligned hot Jupiter WASP-15b from 2.8-5.2 microns observed with JWST's NIRSpec/G395H grating. Our high signal to noise data, which has…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 17 cited

Viscous circumbinary protoplanetary discs -- I. Structure of the inner cavity

Anna B. T. Penzlin, Richard A. Booth, Richard P. Nelson +2

Many of the most intriguing features, including spirals and cavities, in the current disc observations are found in binary systems like GG Tau, HD 142527 or HD 100453. Such feature…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 32 cited

BOWIE-ALIGN: How formation and migration histories of giant planets impact atmospheric compositions

Anna B. T. Penzlin, Richard A. Booth, James Kirk +15

Hot Jupiters present a unique opportunity for measuring how planet formation history shapes present-day atmospheric composition. However, due to the myriad pathways influencing com…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 16 cited

BOWIE-ALIGN: A JWST comparative survey of aligned vs misaligned hot Jupiters to test the dependence of atmospheric composition on migration history

James Kirk, Eva-Maria Ahrer, Anna B. T. Penzlin +19

A primary objective of exoplanet atmosphere characterisation is to learn about planet formation and evolution, however, this is challenged by degeneracies. To determine whether dif…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 5 cited

Overstability of the 2:1 mean motion resonance: Exploring disc parameters with hydrodynamic simulations

Zahra Afkanpour, Sareh Ataiee, Alexandros Ziampras +5

Resonant planetary migration in protoplanetary discs can lead to an interplay between the resonant interaction of planets and their disc torques called overstability. While theoret…

astro-ph.SR2024

The Santa Barbara Binary-Disk Code Comparison

Paul C. Duffell, Alexander J. Dittmann, Daniel J. D'Orazio +13

We have performed numerical calculations of a binary interacting with a gas disk, using eleven different numerical methods and a standard binary-disk setup. The goal of this study…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 4 cited

Stability of coorbital planets around binaries

Stefan Adelbert, Anna B. T. Penzlin, Christoph M. Schäfer +3

In previous hydrodynamical simulations, we found a mechanism for nearly circular binary stars, like Kepler-413, to trap two planets in a stable 1:1 resonance. Therefore, the stabil…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 23 cited

How cooling influences circumbinary discs

Prakruti Sudarshan, Anna B. T. Penzlin, Alexandros Ziampras +2

Circumbinary disc observations and simulations show large, eccentric inner cavities. Recent work has shown that the shape and size of these cavities depend on the aspect ratio and…

astro-ph.EP2022

The morphology of CSCha circumbinary disk suggesting the existence of a Saturn-mass planet

N. T. Kurtovic, P. Pinilla, Anna B. T. Penzlin +8

Planets have been detected in circumbinary orbits in several different systems, despite the additional challenges faced during their formation in such an environment. We investigat…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 28 cited

Binary orbital evolution driven by a circumbinary disc

Anna B. T. Penzlin, Wilhelm Kley, Hugo Audiffren +1

The question whether the interaction of a circumbinary disc with the central binary system leads to shrinking or expansion of the binary orbit has attracted considerable interest a…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 65 cited

Gap, shadows, spirals, streamers: SPHERE observations of binary-disk interactions in GG Tau A

M. Keppler, A. Penzlin, M. Benisty +31

A large fraction of stars is found to be part of binary or higher-order multiple systems. The ubiquity of planets found around single stars raises the question if and how planets i…