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We report Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) 1.3 mm continuum upper limits for 5 planetary-mass companions DH Tau B, CT Cha B, GSC 6214-210 B, 1RXS 1609 B, and GQ Lup B. Our survey, together with other ALMA studies, have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Ya-Lin Wu , Laird M. Close , Josh A. Eisner , Patrick D. Sheehan

Protoplanetary disks are an essential component of the planet-formation process. The amount of dust and gas in the disk constrains the number and size of planets that can form in a system. We analyze 178 T-Tauri stars, 18 in Serpens and 160…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 Luisa F. Zamudio-Ruvalcaba , Catherine C. Espaillat , Álvaro Ribas , Enrique Macías

While it is widely accepted that planets are formed in protoplanetary disks, there is still much debate on when this process happens. In a few cases protoplanets have been directly imaged, but for the vast majority of systems, disk gaps and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Felipe O. Alves , L. Ilsedore Cleeves , Josep M. Girart , Zhaohuan Zhu , Gabriel A. P. Franco , Alice Zurlo , Paola Caselli

Gas mass remains one of the most difficult protoplanetary disk properties to constrain. With much of the protoplanetary disk too cold for the main gas constituent, H2, to emit, alternative tracers such as dust, CO, or the H2 isotopolog HD…

The disks that orbit young stars are the essential conduits and reservoirs of material for star and planet formation. Their structures, meaning the spatial variations of the disk physical conditions, reflect the underlying mechanisms that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Sean M. Andrews

Protoplanetary disks in dense, massive star-forming regions are strongly affected by their environment. How this environmental impact changes over time is an important constraint on disk evolution and external photoevaporation models. We…

A 5.2' x 5.2' region toward the young cluster IC 348 has been imaged in the millimeter continuum at 4.0" x 4.9" resolution with the OVRO interferometer to a RMS noise level of 0.75 mJy/beam at 98 GHz. The data are used to constrain the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 John M. Carpenter

We analyze high-quality stellar catalogs for 24 young and nearby (within 1 kpc) embedded clusters and present a catalogue of 32 groups which have a high concentration of protostars. The median effective radius of these groups is 0.17 pc.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-23 Juan Li , Philip C. Myers , Helen Kirk , Robert A. Gutermuth , Michael M. Dunham , Riwaj Pokhrel

Searches for young gas giant planets at wide separations have so far focused on techniques appropriate for compact (Jupiter sized) planets. Here we point out that protoplanets born through Gravitational Instability (GI) may remain in an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 J. Humphries , C. Hall , T. J. Haworth , S. Nayakshin

We report on the first bird's-eye view of the innermost accretion disk around the high-mass protostellar object G353.273+0.641, taken by Atacama Large Millimter/submillimeter Array long-baselines. The disk traced by dust continuum emission…

Star formation often occurs within or nearby stellar clusters. Irradiation by nearby massive stars can photoevaporate protoplanetary disks around young stars (so-called proplyds) which raises questions regarding the ability of planet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-03-21 Catherine Walsh , T. J. Millar , Hideko Nomura

We report ALMA observations in 0.87 mm continuum and $^{12}$CO ($J$ = 3--2) toward a very low-luminosity ($<$0.1 $L_{\odot}$) protostar, which is deeply embedded in one of the densest core MC27/L1521F, in Taurus with an indication of…

We present the results from a large 850 micron survey of the sigma Orionis cluster using the SCUBA-2 camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. The 0.5-degree diameter circular region we surveyed contains 297 young stellar objects with an…

Young and directly imaged exoplanets offer critical tests of planet-formation models that are not matched by RV surveys of mature stars. These targets have been extremely elusive to date, with no exoplanets younger than 10--20 Myr and only…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Adam L. Kraus , Michael J. Ireland

Planets form in disks around young stars. The planet formation process may start when the protostar and disk are still deeply embedded within their infalling envelope. However, unlike more evolved protoplanetary disks, the physical and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Merel L. R. van 't Hoff , John J. Tobin , Daniel Harsono , Ewine F. van Dishoeck

Recent observations of young stellar systems with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) are helping to cement the idea that close companion stars form via fragmentation of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti , Fidel Cruz , Ruslan Gabbasov , Jaime Klapp , José Ramírez-Velasquez

We present the first ALMA survey of protoplanetary discs at 3 mm, targeting 36 young stellar objects in the Lupus star-forming region with deep observations (sensitivity 20-50 microJy/beam) at ~0.35" resolution (~50 au). Building on…

We present high-resolution, high-sensitivity observations of the Class 0 protostar RCrA IRS5N as part of the Atacama Large Milimeter/submilimeter Array (ALMA) large program Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). The 1.3 mm…

Using the VLA, we recently detected a large number of protoplanetary disk (proplyd) candidates lying within a couple of light years of the massive black hole Sgr A*. The bow-shock appearance of proplyd candidates point toward the young…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 F. Yusef-Zadeh , W. Cotton , M. Wardle , M. J. Royster , D. Kunneriath , D. A. Roberts , A. Wootten , R. Schödel