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Since the discovery of the multi-ring structure of the HL Tau disk, ALMA data suggest that the dust continuum emission of many, if not all, protoplanetary disks consists of rings and gaps, no matter their spectral type or age. The origin of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Nienke van der Marel , Ruobing Dong , James di Francesco , Jonathan Williams , John Tobin

The observed dust rings and gaps in protoplanetary disks could be imprints of forming planets. Even low-mass planets in the one-to-ten Earth-mass regime, that do not yet carve deep gas gaps, can generate such dust rings and gaps by driving…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Ayumu Kuwahara , Michiel Lambrechts , Hiroyuki Kurokawa , Satoshi Okuzumi , Takayuki Tanigawa

We are observing, thanks to ALMA, the dust distribution in the region of active planet formation around young stars. This is a powerful tool to connect observations with theoretical models and improve our understandings of the processes at…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 Giovanni Picogna , Wilhelm Kley

It has been suggested that the gaps and cavities recently discovered in transitional disks are opened by planets. To explore this scenario, we combine two-dimensional two fluid (gas + particle) hydrodynamical calculations with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Ruobing Dong , Zhaohuan Zhu , Barbara Whitney

[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

Recent ALMA observations indicate that while a range of disk sizes exist, typical disk radii are small, and that radial dust drift affects the distribution of solids in disks. Here we explore the consequences of these features in planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Matthew Alessi , Ralph E. Pudritz , Alex J. Cridland

Direct imaging has confirmed the existence of substellar companions on wide orbits. To understand the formation and evolution mechanisms of these companions, the full population properties must be characterized. We aim at detecting giant…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Rameau , G. Chauvin , A. -M. Lagrange , H. Klahr , M. Bonnefoy , C. Mordasini , M. Bonavita , S. Desidera , C. Dumas , J. H. Girard

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…

Recent observations point to the presence of structured dust grains in the discs surrounding young brown dwarfs, thus implying that the first stages of planet formation take place also in the sub-stellar regime. Here, we investigate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Matthew J. Payne , Giuseppe Lodato

We develop a semi-analytical model for computing planetary system formation with the aim of explaining the observed diversity of planetary systems architectures and relate this primordial diversity with the initial properties of the disc…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Yamila Miguel , Octavio M. Guilera , Adrian Brunini

When and how planets form in protoplanetary disks is still a topic of discussion. Exoplanet detection surveys and protoplanetary disk surveys are now providing results that allow us to have new insights. We collect the masses of confirmed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 C. F. Manara , A. Morbidelli , T. Guillot

In the past decades several thousand exoplanet systems have been discovered around evolved, main-sequence stars, revealing a wide diversity in their architectures. To understand how the planet formation process can lead to vastly different…

The formation of planets occurs within protoplanetary disks surrounding young stars, resulting in perturbation of the gas and dust surface densities. Here, we report the first evidence of spatially resolved gas surface density…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Cécile Favre , Davide Fedele , Luke Maud , Richard Booth , Marco Tazzari , Anna Miotello , Leonardo Testi , Dmitry Semenov , Simon Bruderer

Recent observations of the protoplanetary disc surrounding AB Aurigae have revealed the possible presence of two giant planets in the process of forming. The young measured age of $1-4$Myr for this system allows us to place strict time…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 James Cadman , Ken Rice , Cassandra Hall

The Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP) provides a large sample of protoplanetary disks having substructures which could be induced by young forming planets. To explore the properties of planets that may be…

Despite many methods developed to find young massive planets in protoplanetary discs, it is challenging to directly detect low-mass planets that are embedded in discs. On the other hand, the core-accretion theory suggests that there could…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Zhaohuan Zhu , Avery Bailey , Enrique Macías , Takayuki Muto , Sean M. Andrews

We present mock observations of forming planets with ALMA. The possible detections of circumplanetary disks (CPDs) were investigated around planets of Saturn, 1, 3, 5, and 10 Jupiter-masses that are placed at 5.2 AU from their star. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 J. Szulágyi , G. van der Plas , M. R. Meyer , A. Pohl , S. P. Quanz , L. Mayer , S. Daemgen , V. Tamburello

Most of the exoplanets discovered in our galaxy to date orbit low-mass stars, which tend to host small disks in their early stages. To better elucidate the link between planet formation and disk substructures, observational biases should be…

Recent observations by the {\it Kepler} space telescope have led to the discovery of more than 4000 exoplanet candidates consisting of many systems with Earth- to Neptune-sized objects that reside well inside the orbit of Mercury, around…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Hilke E. Schlichting

Over the past 25 years, observations have uncovered a large population of free-floating planets (FFPs), whose origins remain debated. Massive FFPs (several Jupiter masses or more) may form via gravitational collapse of molecular clouds,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Aleksandra Ćalović , Sergei Nayakshin , Sarah Casewell , Núria Miret-Roig