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We present Very Large Array observations of the intermediate mass pre-main-sequence stars UX Ori and CQ Tau at 7mm, 3.6cm, and 6cm. These stars are members of the UX Ori variability class, where the origin of optical variability is thought…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 L. Testi , A. Natta , D. S. Shepherd , D. J. Wilner

We report the discovery of a circumbinary disk around the Herbig Ae/Be system v892 Tau. Our detailed mid-infrared images were made using segment-tilting interferometry on the Keck-1 Telescope and reveal an asymmetric disk inclined at ~60…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. D. Monnier , A. Tannirkulam , P. G. Tuthill , M. Ireland , R. Cohen , W. C. Danchi , F. Baron

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

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 likely sites of planet formation. Here, we reanalyze ~0.1'',…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Shangjia Zhang , Matt Kalscheur , Feng Long , Ke Zhang , Deryl E. Long , Edwin A. Bergin , Zhaohuan Zhu , Leon Trapman

The recently discovered exoplanets in binary or higher-order multiple stellar systems sparked a new interest in the study of proto-planetary discs in stellar aggregations. Here we focus on disc solids, as they make up the reservoir out of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Francesco Zagaria , Giovanni P. Rosotti , Giuseppe Lodato

Recently revealed differences in planets around M dwarf vs. solar-type stars could arise from differences in their primordial disks, and surveys of T Tauri stars find a correlation between stellar mass and disk mass. "Minimum" disks have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 E. Gaidos

We present ALMA observations of the Orion Nebula that cover the OMC1 outflow region. Our focus in this paper is on compact emission from protoplanetary disks. We mosaicked a field containing $\sim 600$ near-IR-identified young stars, around…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 J. A. Eisner , J. M. Bally , A. Ginsburg , P. D. Sheehan

We report an Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array 0.88 mm (Band 7) continuum detection of the accretion disk around SR 12 c, an $\sim$11 $M_{\rm Jup}$ planetary-mass companion (PMC) orbiting its host binary at 980 au. This is the…

In the earliest (so-called "Class 0") phase of sunlike (low-mass) star formation, circumstellar disks are expected to form, feeding the protostars. However, such disks are difficult to resolve spatially because of their small sizes.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-01 Chin-Fei Lee , Zhi-Yun Li , Paul. T. P Ho , Naomi Hirano , Qizhou Zhang , Hsien Shang

It is thought that planetary mass companions may form through gravitational disk instabilities or core accretion. Identifying such objects in the process of formation would provide the most direct test for the competing formation theories.…

We present ALMA long-baseline observations toward the Class 0 protostar IRAS 16253-2429 (hereafter IRAS 16253) with a resolution down to 0.12" (~15 au). The 1.3 mm dust continuum emission has a deconvolved Gaussian size of 0.16" x 0. 07"…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Tien-Hao Hsieh , Naomi Hirano , Arnaud Belloche , Chin-Fei Lee , Yusuke Aso , Shih-Ping Lai

Planets have been detected around a variety of stars, including low-mass objects, such as brown dwarfs. However, such extreme cases are challenging for planet formation models. Recent sub-millimeter observations of disks around brown dwarf…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-20 P. Pinilla , T. Birnstiel , M. Benisty , L. Ricci , A. Natta , C. P. Dullemond , C. Dominik , L. Testi

[abridged] ALMA observations of dust in protoplanetary disks are revealing the existence of sub-structures such as rings, gaps and cavities. Such morphology are expected to be the outcome of dynamical interaction between the disk and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 D. Fedele , F. Bollati , G. Lodato

Spatially resolved polarized (sub-)mm emission has been observed for example in the protoplanetary disk around HL Tau. Magnetically aligned grains are commonly interpreted as the source of polarization. However, self-scattering by large…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 A. Pohl , A. Kataoka , P. Pinilla , C. P. Dullemond , Th. Henning , T. Birnstiel

We characterize the crystalline silicate content and spatial distribution of small dust grains in a large sample of protoplanetary disks in the Taurus-Auriga young cluster, using Spitzer Space Telescope mid-infrared spectra. In turn we use…

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 recent detections of extrasolar giant planets has revealed a surprising diversity of planetary system architectures, with many very unlike our Solar System. Understanding the origin of this diversity requires multi-wavelength studies of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. J. Wilner

The abundance of short-period planetary systems with high orbital obliquities relative to the spin of their host stars is often taken as evidence that scattering processes play important roles in the formation and evolution of these…

We present new 0.6 - 4 $\mu$m imaging of the SR 21 transition disk from Keck/NIRC2 and Magellan/MagAO. The protoplanetary disk around SR 21 has a large (~ 30 - 40 AU) clearing first inferred from its spectral energy distribution and later…

We report our current SMA and ALMA studies of disk and planet formation around protostars. We have revealed that $r \gtrsim$100 AU scale disks in Keplerian rotation are ubiquitous around Class I sources. These Class I Keplerian disks are…