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Scattering of re-emitted flux is considered to be at least partially responsible for the observed polarisation in the (sub-)millimetre wavelength range of several protoplanetary disks. Although the degree of polarisation produced by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Robert Brunngräber , Sebastian Wolf

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

[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 imaging of protoplanetary disks with high resolution and contrast have revealed a striking variety of substructure. Of particular interest are cases where near-infrared scattered light images show evidence for low-intensity annular…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Tilman Birnstiel , Sean M. Andrews , Paola Pinilla , Mihkel Kama

In recent years evidence has been building that planet formation starts early, in the first $\sim$ 0.5 Myr. Studying the dust masses available in young disks enables understanding the origin of planetary systems since mature disks are…

(Sub)millimeter dust opacities are required for converting the observable dust continuum emission to the mass, but their values have long been uncertain, especially in disks around young stellar objects. We propose a method to constrain the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-23 Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin , Chin-Fei Lee , Zhi-Yun Li , John Tobin , Neal Turner

Characterizing the physical properties of dust grains in a protoplanetary disk is critical to comprehending the planet formation process. Our study presents ALMA high-resolution observations of the young protoplanetary disk around DG Tau at…

We study the dust concentration and emission in protoplanetary disks vortices. We extend the Lyra-Lin solution for the dust concentration of a single grain size to a power-law distribution of grain sizes $n(a) \propto a^{-p}$. Assuming dust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Anibal Sierra , Susana Lizano , Pierre Barge

Context. Dust grains coagulate to form dust aggregates in protoplanetary disks. Their porosity can be extremely high in the disks. Although disk emission may come from fluffy dust aggregates, the emission has been modeled with compact…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Akimasa Kataoka , Satoshi Okuzumi , Hidekazu Tanaka , Hideko Nomura

The last decade has witnessed remarkable advances in the characterization of the (sub-)millimeter emission from planet-forming disks. Instead, the study of the (sub-)centimeter emission has made more limited progress, to the point that only…

Compact protoplanetary disks with a radius of $\lesssim$ 50 au are common around young low-mass stars. We report high resolution ALMA dust continuum observations toward a compact disk around CW Tau at Band 4 ($\lambda=2.2$ mm), 6 (1.3 mm),…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Takahiro Ueda , Akimasa Kataoka , Takashi Tsukagoshi

We present a detailed analysis for a subset of the high resolution (~35 mas, or 5 au) ALMA observations from the Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP) to search for faint 1.3 mm continuum emission associated with…

We present a comprehensive analysis of the HL Tau dust disk by modeling its intensity profiles across six wavelengths (0.45 to 7.9 mm) with a resolution of 0.05 arcsec ($\sim7$ au). Using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach, we…

Debris discs are analogues to our own Kuiper belt around main-sequence stars and are therefore referred to as exoKuiper belts. They have been resolved at high angular resolution at wavelengths spanning the optical to the…

The sub-millimetre dust opacity spectral index is a critical observable to constrain dust properties, such as the maximum grain size of an observed dust population. It has been widely measured at galactic scales and down to protoplanetary…

The inferred dust masses from Class II protoplanetary disk observations are lower than or equal to the masses of the observed exoplanet systems. This poses the question of how planets form if their natal environments do not contain enough…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Sofia Savvidou , Bertram Bitsch

The evolution of protoplanetary disks, especially in the early stages of planetary formation, as dust grows, is the cornerstone of the birth of planets. The mechanisms involved in the growth of sub-micrometric dust grains into planetesimals…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Maxime Roumesy , François Ménard , Gaspard Duchêne , Ryo Tazaki , Christian Ginski

We present new Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations for three protoplanetary disks in Taurus at 2.9\,mm and comparisons with previous 1.3\,mm data both at an angular resolution of $\sim0.''1$ (15\,au for the…

In protoplanetary disks micron-size dust grains coagulate to form larger structures with complex shapes and compositions. The coagulation process changes the absorption and scattering properties of particles in the disk in significant ways.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 M. Min , Ch. Rab , P. Woitke , C. Dominik , F. Ménard

ALMA has revolutionized our view of protoplanetary disks, revealing structures such as gaps, rings and asymmetries that indicate dust trapping as an important mechanism in the planet formation process. However, the high resolution images…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-19 Nienke van der Marel , Brenda Matthews , Ruobing Dong , Tilman Birnstiel , Andrea Isella