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Giant planets embedded in circumstellar discs are expected to open gaps in these discs. We examine the vertical structure of the gap edges. We find that the planet excites spiral arms with significant (Mach number of a half) vertical motion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. G. Edgar , A. C. Quillen

Context. The study of protoplanetary disks is fundamental to understand their evolution and interaction with the surrounding environment, and to constrain planet formation mechanisms. Aims. We aim at characterising the young binary system…

ALMA observations of line emission from planet forming discs have demonstrated to be an excellent tool to probe the internal disc kinematics, often revealing subtle effects related to important dynamical processes occurring in them, such as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 G. Lodato , L. Rampinelli , E. Viscardi , C. Longarini , A. Inzquierdo , T. Paneque-Carreno , L. Testi , S. Facchini , A. Miotello , B. Veronesi , C. Hall

Circumstellar disks are the sites of planet formation, and the very high incidence of extrasolar planets implies that most of them actually form planetary systems. Studying the structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks can thus place…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Lucas A. Cieza

We carry out three dimensional SPH simulations to show that a migrating giant planet strongly suppresses the spiral structure in self-gravitating discs. We present mock ALMA continuum observations which show that in the absence of a planet,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-30 Sahl Rowther , Farzana Meru , Grant M. Kennedy , Rebecca Nealon , Christophe Pinte

Recent observations of protoplanetary discs reveal disc substructures potentially caused by embedded planets. We investigate how the gas surface density in discs changes the observed morphology in scattered light and dust continuum…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 B. Veronesi , G. Lodato , G. Dipierro , E. Ragusa , C. Hall , D. J. Price

Current imaging observations of protoplanetary disks using ALMA primarily focus on the sub-millimeter wavelength, leaving a gap in effective observational approaches for centimeter-sized dust, which is crucial to the issue of planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-18 Yinhao Wu , Shang-Fei Liu , Haochang Jiang , Sergei Nayakshin

Super-Earths exist around subsolar-metallicity host stars with a frequency comparable to that around solar-metallicity stars, suggesting efficient assembly of dust grains even in metal-deficient environments. In this study, we propose a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 Ryoki Matsukoba , Eduard I. Vorobyov , Takashi Hosokawa

In recent years, it has been demonstrated that massive stars see their infant circumstellar medium shaped into a large, irradiated, gravitationally unstable accretion disc during their early formation phase. Such discs constitute the gas…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-31 D. M. -A. Meyer , E. Vorobyov

High angular resolution observations of discs at mm wavelengths (on scales of a few au) are now commonplace, but there is a current lack of a comparable angular resolution for observations at cm wavelengths. This presents a significant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 John D. Ilee , Cassandra Hall , Catherine Walsh , Izaskun Jiménez-Serra , Christophe Pinte , Jason Terry , Tyler Bourke , Melvin Hoare

Numerous protoplanetary disks exhibit shadows in scattered light observations. These shadows are typically cast by misaligned inner disks and are associated with observable structures in the outer disk such as bright arcs and spirals.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 Alexandros Ziampras , Cornelis P. Dullemond , Tilman Birnstiel , Myriam Benisty , Richard P. Nelson

Radially compact protoplanetary discs (<=50 au) are ubiquitous in nearby star-forming regions. Multiple mechanisms have been invoked to interpret various compact discs. In this paper, we propose that fragmentation of fragile dust grains in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Simin Tong , Richard Alexander

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

The cold dark matter (CDM) structure formation model predicts that about 5-10 percent of a typical galactic halo of mass $\sim 10^{12} \ms$ is in substructures with masses $\lesssim 10^8 \ms$. To directly detect such substructures, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kaiki Taro Inoue , Masashi Chiba

Submillimeter observations with ALMA will be the essential next step in our understanding of how stars and planets form. Key projects range from detailed imaging of the collapse of pre-stellar cores and measuring the accretion rate of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ewine F. van Dishoeck , Jes K. Jorgensen

ALMA has revealed that the millimetre dust structures of protoplanetary discs are extremely diverse. It has been proposed that the strength of H$_2$O emission in the inner disc particularly depends on the influx of icy pebbles from the…

Dust substructures in protoplanetary discs can be signatures of embedded young planets whose detection and characterisation would provide a better understanding of planet formation. Traditional techniques used to link substructures'…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 A. Ruzza , G. Lodato , G. P. Rosotti , P. J. Armitage

Substructures such as rings, gaps, and cavities are commonly observed in protoplanetary discs and are thought to play a key role in dust evolution and planet formation. However, a fraction of the extended discs (68% dust radii > 30 AU) in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Quincy Bosschaart , Osmar M. Guerra-Alvarado , Nienke van der Marel , Gijs D. Mulders

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

We present a new method of identifying protostellar disc fragments in a simulation based on density derivatives, and analyse our data using this and the existing CLUMPFIND method, which is based on an ordered search over all particles in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Cassandra Hall , Duncan Forgan , Ken Rice