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Star formation occurs via fragmentation of molecular clouds, which means that the majority of stars born are a members of binaries. There is growing evidence that planets might form in circumprimary disks of medium-separation binaries. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Zs. Regaly , Zs. Sandor , C. P. Dullemond , L. L. Kiss

Stellar binaries may form through several formation pathways, including disk or core fragmentation. Their spin-orbit angles are a signature of formation, although individual measurements for visual binaries are limited and broad. A seminal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-23 Michael Poon , Dang Pham , Marta L. Bryan , Hanno Rein , Jiayin Dong

While numerical simulations have been playing a key role in the studies of planet-disk interaction, testing numerical results against observations has been limited so far. With the two directly imaged protoplanets embedded in its…

Protoplanetary disks are a byproduct of the star formation process. In the dense mid-plane of these disks, planetesimals and planets are expected to form. The first step in planet formation is the growth of dust particles from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Florian Kirchschlager , Sebastian Wolf , David Madlener

Jets and disc winds play an important role in the evolution of protoplanetary discs and the formation of planetary systems. However, there is still a lack of observational data regarding the presence and parameters of outflows, especially…

Observations of circumbinary discs reveal inner cavities, with their shape and size varying strongly between different systems. The structure of the cavity is determined by the complex interplay between spirals induced by tidal forcing from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Anna B. T. Penzlin , Alexandros Ziampras , Nicolas T. Kurtovic , Marcelo Barraza-Alfaro , Paola Pinilla

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…

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

The variety of observed protoplanetary disks in polarimetric light motivates a taxonomical study to constrain their evolution and establish the current framework of this type of observations. We classified 58 disks with available…

We present high resolution millimeter continuum and CO line observations for the circumbinary disk around V892 Tau to constrain the stellar and disk properties. The total mass of the two near-equal-mass A stars is estimated to be…

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

Binaries occur in many astrophysical systems, from young protostellar binaries in star forming regions to supermassive black hole binaries in galaxy centers. In many cases, a circumbinary disk of gas forms around the binary with an orbit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Cheng Chen , Philip J. Armitage , C. J. Nixon

In recent decades, thousands of substellar companions have been discovered with both indirect and direct methods of detection. In this paper, we focus our attention on substellar companions detected with the direct imaging technique, with…

A recent ALMA image revealed several concentric gaps in the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star HL Tau. We consider the hypothesis that these gaps are carved by planets, and present a general framework for understanding the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Daniel Tamayo , Amaury H. M. J. Triaud , Kristen Menou , Hanno Rein

Rings are the most frequently revealed substructure in ALMA dust observations of protoplanetary disks, but their origin is still hotly debated. In this paper, we identify dust substructures in 12 disks and measure their properties to…

We present high resolution spectro-astrometry of a sample of 28 Herbig Ae/Be and 3 F-type pre-main sequence stars. The spectro-astrometry is shown from both empirical and simulated data to be capable of detecting binary companions that are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Deborah Baines , Rene Oudmaijer , John Porter , Monica Pozzo

The discovery of planets in close orbits around binary stars raises questions about their formation. It is believed that these planets formed in the outer regions of the disc and then migrated through planet-disc interaction to their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-17 Daniel Thun , Wilhelm Kley

Over 50 circumbinary exoplanets have been discovered in recent years, with several of them being gas giants on wide orbits ($>10$AU). The aim of this work is to investigate whether these planets can form through circumbinary disc…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Matthew Teasdale , Dimitris Stamatellos

The architectures of exoplanet systems are likely set during the initial planet-formation phase in the circumstellar disk. To understand this process, we have to study the earliest phases of planet formation. Complex sub-structures,…