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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 inclined protoplanetary discs using radiative transfer…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 Juanita Antilen , Paola Pinilla , Dafa Li , Marion Villenave , Anibal Sierra , Yao Liu , Myriam Benisty , Christian Ginski

We present new Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations for three protoplanetary disks in Taurus at 2.9\,mm and comparisons with previous 1.3\,mm data both at an angular resolution of $\sim0.''1$ (15\,au for the…

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 uniform analysis of the vertical extent of millimeter dust for a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 M. Villenave , G. Rosotti , M. Lambrechts , A. Ziampras , C. Pinte , F. Menard , K. Stapelfeldt , G. Duchene , E. Baylock , K. Doi

ALMA has revolutionized our view of protoplanetary disks, revealing structures such as gaps, rings and asymmetries that indicate dust trapping as an important mechanism in the planet formation process. However, the high resolution images…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-19 Nienke van der Marel , Brenda Matthews , Ruobing Dong , Tilman Birnstiel , Andrea Isella

ALMA has spatially resolved over 200 annular structures in protoplanetary discs, many of which are suggestive of the presence of planets. Constraining the mass of these putative planets is quite degenerate for it depends on the disc…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Yinhao Wu , Clément Baruteau , Sergei Nayakshin

Planet formation models rely on knowledge of the physical conditions and evolutionary processes in protoplanetary disks, in particular the grain size distribution and dust growth timescales. In theoretical models, several barriers exist…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-26 Nienke van der Marel , Paola Pinilla

Over the past decade, advancement of observational capabilities, specifically the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and SPHERE instrument, alongside theoretical innovations like pebble accretion, have reshaped our…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-30 Tilman Birnstiel

Understanding planet formation requires to discern how dust grows in protoplanetary disks. An important parameter to measure in disks is the maximum dust grain size present. This is usually estimated through measurements of the dust opacity…

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 wavelengths with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…

We present a series of simulations of turbulent stratified protostellar discs with the goal of characterizing the settling of dust throughout a minimum-mass solar nebula. We compare the evolution of both compact spherical grains, as well as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 D. A. Tilley , D. S. Balsara , S. D. Brittain , T. Rettig

Constraining dust properties of planet-forming disks via high angular resolution observations is fundamental to understanding how solids are trapped in substructures and how dust growth may be favored or accelerated therein. We use ALMA…

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 tailored dust evolution modeling of the AGE-PRO ALMA large…

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 measured several disk properties across three star-forming…

[Abridged] Aims: We provide predictions for ALMA observations of planet gaps that account for the specific spatial distribution of dust that results from consistent gas+dust dynamics. Methods: In a previous work, we ran full 3D, two-fluid…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-28 J. -F. Gonzalez , C. Pinte , S. T. Maddison , F. Ménard , L. Fouchet

The mass of protoplanetary disks is arguably one of their most important quantities shaping their evolution toward planetary systems, but it remains a challenge to determine this quantity. Using the high spatial resolution now available on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Riccardo Franceschi , Tilman Birnstiel , Thomas Henning , Paola Pinilla , Dmitry Semenov , Apostolos Zormpas

Abridged: Recent simulations have explored different ways to form accretion disks around low-mass stars. We aim to present observables to differentiate a rotationally supported disk from an infalling rotating envelope toward deeply embedded…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-29 Daniel Harsono , Ewine van Dishoeck , Simon Bruderer , Zhi-Yun Li , Jes Jorgensen

Characterizing the physical properties of dust grains in a protoplanetary disk is critical to comprehending the planet formation process. Our study presents ALMA high-resolution observations of the young protoplanetary disk around DG Tau at…

Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) have revealed many dust rings in protoplanetary disks, often interpreted as dust traps at gas pressure bumps. Previous studies…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Linhan Yang , Ya-Ping Li , Ruobing Dong , Kiyoaki Doi , Hauyu Baobab Liu , Pinghui Huang

The formation of planets strongly depends on the total amount as well as on the spatial distribution of solids in protoplanetary disks. Thanks to the improvements in resolution and sensitivity provided by ALMA, measurements of the surface…

In order to study the initial conditions of planet formation, it is crucial to obtain spatially resolved multi-wavelength observations of the innermost region of protoplanetary discs. We evaluate the advantage of combining observations with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Julia Kobus , Sebastian Wolf , Robert Brunngräber
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