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We present Subaru/SCExAO+CHARIS broadband ($JHK$-band) integral field spectroscopy of HD 34700 A. CHARIS data recover HD 34700 A's disk ring and confirm multiple spirals discovered in Monnier et al. (2019). We set limits on substellar…

The outer disk of the Milky Way Galaxy is warped and flared. Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain these phenomena, but none have quantitatively reproduced both features. Recent work has demonstrated that the Galactic stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-15 Jiwon Jesse Han , Charlie Conroy , Lars Hernquist

We have obtained new resolved images of the well-studied HR 4796A dust ring at 18 and 25 microns with the 8-meter Gemini telescopes. These images confirm the previously observed spatial extent seen in mid-IR, near-IR, and optical images of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Margaret Moerchen , Laura Churcher , Charles Telesco , Mark Wyatt , R. Scott Fisher , Christopher Packham

We present high-resolution ($\lesssim 0.1''$) Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) imaging of the near edge-on ($i{\sim}80^\circ$) protoplanetary disk IRAS 23077+6707 ("Dracula's Chivito") obtained across six broadband…

Shadows and spirals seem to be common features of transition discs. Among the spiral-triggering mechanisms proposed, only one establishes a causal link between shadows and spirals so far. In fact, provided the presence of shadows in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Matías Montesinos , Nicolás Cuello

The nearby young star beta Pictoris hosts a rich and complex planetary system, with at least two giant planets and a nearly edge-on debris disk that contains several dynamical subpopulations of planetesimals. While the inner ranges of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Markus Janson , Alexis Brandeker , Göran Olofsson , Rene Liseau

We have discovered an optically thick, edge-on circumstellar disk around a Herbig Ae star in the binary system PDS 144, providing the first intermediate-mass analog of HK Tau and similar T Tauris. This system consists of a V ~ 13 mag.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Marshall D. Perrin , Gaspard Duchene , Paul Kalas , James R. Graham

Dark rings with bright rims are the indirect signposts of planets embedded in protoplanetary discs. In a recent first, an azimuthally elongated AU-scale blob, possibly a planet, was resolved with ALMA in TW Hya. The blob is at the edge of a…

Context. Despite the recent discovery of spiral-shaped features in protoplanetary discs in the near-infrared and millimetric wavelengths, there is still an active discussion to understand how they formed. In fact, the spiral waves observed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Nicolás Cuello , Matías Montesinos , Sebastian M. Stammler , Fabien Louvet , Jorge Cuadra

We present Very Large Array observations at 7 millimeters wavelength that resolve the dust emission structure in the disk around the young star TW Hydrae at the scale of the ~4 AU (~0.16") radius inner hole inferred from spectral energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 A. M. Hughes , D. J. Wilner , N. Calvet , P. D'Alessio , M. J. Claussen , M. R. Hogerheijde

This study investigates the visual characteristics of a rotating black hole (BH) within the fabric of $4$D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity illuminated with two illumination models, such as a celestial light sphere and a thin accretion disk.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-22 Muhammad Israr Aslam , Manahil Ali , Abdul Malik Sultan , Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Sultan Hussain

Protoplanetary disks observed in millimeter continuum and scattered light show a variety of substructures. Various physical processes in the disk could trigger such features -- one of which that has been previously theorized for passive…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Prakruti Sudarshan , Mario Flock , Alexandros Ziampras , David Melon Fuksman , Tilman Birnstiel

Near-infrared imaging with the Hubble Space Telescope recently revealed a circumstellar dust disk around the A star HD 32297. Dust scattered light is detected as far as 400 AU radius and the linear morphology is consistent with a disk ~10…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Kalas

We report the first detection of DCO+ in a circumstellar disk. The DCO+ J=5-4 line at 360.169 GHz is observed with the 15m James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in the disk around the pre-main sequence star TW Hya. Together with measurements of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 E. F. van Dishoeck , W. F. Thi , G. J. van Zadelhoff

We report the detection of an excess in dust continuum emission at 233~GHz (1.3~mm in wavelength) in the protoplanetary disk around TW~Hya revealed through high-sensitivity observations at $\sim$3~au resolution with the Atacama Large…

The stellar disk in a spiral galaxy is believed to be truncated physically because the disk surface brightness is observed to fall faster than that for an exponential in the outer, faint regions. We review the literature associated with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chaitra A. Narayan , Chanda J. Jog

In this paper, we study the shadow and images of the accretion disk of Kerr-Newman (KN) black hole (BH) in modified gravity (MOG) theory by using backward ray-tracing method. And, the influence of spin parameter ($a$), charge ($Q$), and MOG…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-07 He-Bin Zheng , Meng-Qi Wu , Guo-Ping Li , Qing-Quan Jiang