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Studying young protoplanetary disks is essential for understanding planet formation, but traditional angular differential imaging can introduce self-subtraction artefacts that hinder interpretation of small-scale structures. We present…

Observations of CO isotopologue emission from protoplanetary disks at millimeter wavelengths are a powerful tool for probing the CO snowline, an important marker for disk chemistry, and also for estimating total disk gas mass, a key…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-05 Chunhua Qi , David J. Wilner

The detection of planets in protoplanetary disks has proven to be extremely challenging. In contrast, rings and gaps, usually attributed to planet-disk interactions, have been found in virtually every large protoplanetary (Class II) disk…

H$_2$CO ice on dust grains is an important precursor of complex organic molecules (COMs). H$_2$CO gas can be readily observed in protoplanetary disks and may be used to trace COM chemistry. However, its utility as a COM probe is currently…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-31 Ryan A. Loomis , L. Ilsedore Cleeves , Karin I. Öberg , Viviana V. Guzman , Sean M. Andrews

The recent ALMA observations of the disc surrounding HL Tau reveal a very complex dust spatial distribution. We present a radiative transfer model accounting for the observed gaps and bright rings as well as radial changes of the emissivity…

Protoplanetary disks, which are the natural consequence of the gravitational collapse of the dense molecular cloud cores, host the formation of the known planetary systems in our universe. Substantial efforts have been dedicated to…

Dust traps are the most promising mechanisms to explain the observed substructures in protoplanetary discs. In this work, we present high-angular resolution ($\sim$60 mas, 9.4 au) and high-sensitivity Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre…

The gas mass of protoplanetary disks, and the gas-to-dust ratio, are two key elements driving the evolution of these disks and the formation of planetary system. We explore here to what extent CO (or its isotopologues) can be used as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 L. Reboussin , V. Wakelam , S. Guilloteau , F. Hersant , A. Dutrey

We present ALMA band 7 (345 GHz) continuum and $^{12}$CO(J = 3-2) observations of the circumstellar disk surrounding HD141569. At an age of about 5 Myr, the disk has a complex morphology that may be best interpreted as a nascent debris…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-06 J. A. White , A. C. Boley , A. M. Hughes , K. M. Flaherty , E. Ford , D. Wilner , S. Corder , M. Payne

We present ALMA observations of the 0.88 millimeter dust continuum, 13CO, and C18O J=3-2 line emission of the circumbinary disk HD142527 at a spatial resolution of about 0.25". This system is characterized by a large central cavity of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-10 Y. Boehler , E. Weaver , A. Isella , L. Ricci , C. Grady , J. Carpenter , L. Perez

We propose a set of standard assumptions for the modelling of Class II and III protoplanetary disks, which includes detailed continuum radiative transfer, thermo-chemical modelling of gas and ice, and line radiative transfer from optical to…

Gap-like structures in protoplanetary disks are likely related to planet formation processes. In this paper, we present and analyze high resolution (0.17*0.11 arcsec) 1.3 mm ALMA continuum observations of the protoplanetary disk around the…

The widespread rings and gaps seen in the dust continuum in protoplanetary disks are sometimes accompanied by similar substructures seen in molecular line emission. One example is the outer gap at 100 au in AS 209, which shows that the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Grigorii V. Smirnov-Pinchukov , Dmitry A. Semenov , Vitaly V. Akimkin , Thomas Henning

Aims. The goal of this work is to comprehensively characterize the impact of stellar multiplicity on Class II disks in the L1641 and L1647 regions of Orion A (~1-3 Myr), part of the Survey of Orion Disks with ALMA (SODA). We characterize…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 Giulia Ricciardi , Sierk E. van Terwisga , Veronica Roccatagliata , Alvaro Hacar , Thomas Henning , Walter Del Pozzo

The inward drift of mm-cm sized pebbles in protoplanetary disks has become an important part of our current theories of planet formation and, more recently, planet composition as well. The gas-to-dust size ratio of protoplanetary disks can…

The disk around HD 169142 has been suggested to host multiple embedded planets due to the range of structures observed in the dust distributions. We analyze archival ALMA observations of $^{12} \mathrm{CO \ (2-1)}$, $^{13} \mathrm{CO \…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Haochuan Yu , Richard Teague , Jaehan Bae , Karin Öberg

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…

High spatial resolution observations of CO isotopologue line emission in protoplanetary disks at mid-inclinations (${\approx}$30-75{\deg}) allow us to characterize the gas structure in detail, including radial and vertical substructures,…

CO is the most widely used gas tracer of protoplanetary disks. Its abundance is usually assumed to be an interstellar ratio throughout the warm molecular layer of the disk. But recent observations of low CO gas abundance in many…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Ke Zhang , Edwin A. Bergin , Kamber R. Schwarz , Sebastiaan Krijt , Fred Ciesla

We present spectral energy distribution (SED) modeling of 338 disks around T Tauri stars from eleven star-forming regions, ranging from $\sim$0.5 to 10 Myr old. The disk masses we infer from our SED models are typically greater than those…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Anneliese Rilinger , Catherine Espaillat , Zihua Xin , Álvaro Ribas , Enrique Macías , Sarah Luettgen