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Context. The protoplanetary disk around the star HD 100546 displays prominent substructures in the form of two concentric rings. Recent observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) have revealed these features…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Max Ackermann Pyerin , Timmy N. Delage , Nicolás T. Kurtovic , Matías Gárate , Thomas Henning , Paola Pinilla

The formation and evolution of disks early in the protostellar phase is an area of study in which the ngVLA is poised to make significant breakthroughs. The high-sensitivity and resolution at wavelengths of 3~mm and longer will enable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-18 John Tobin , Patrick Sheehan , Doug Johnstone , Rajeeb Sharma

Turbulence can transport angular momentum in protoplanetary disks and influence the growth and evolution of planets. With spatially and spectrally resolved molecular emission line measurements provided by (sub)millimeter interferometric…

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

In view of the many recent observations conducted by ALMA and SPHERE, it is becoming clear that protoplanetary disks form planets in narrow annular gaps at various distances from the central protostars before these protostars are actually…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-05 Dimitris M. Christodoulou , Demosthenes Kazanas

We present a high angular resolution (0.3" = 40 AU) SMA survey of the 870 micron thermal continuum emission from 9 of the brightest, and therefore most massive, circumstellar disks in the ~1 Myr-old Ophiuchus star-forming region. Using 2-D…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Sean M. Andrews , D. J. Wilner , A. M. Hughes , Chunhua Qi , C. P. Dullemond

We present a high-resolution ($\sim0.''12$, $\sim16$ au, mean sensitivity of $50~\mu$Jy~beam$^{-1}$ at 225 GHz) snapshot survey of 32 protoplanetary disks around young stars with spectral type earlier than M3 in the Taurus star-forming…

We compute the molecular line emission of massive protostellar disks by solving the equation of radiative transfer through the cores and disks produced by the recent radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of Krumholz, Klein, & McKee. We find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Mark R. Krumholz , Richard I. Klein , Christopher F. McKee

Planetesimal belts are ubiquitous around nearby stars, and their spatial properties hold crucial information for planetesimal and planet formation models. We present resolved dust observations of 74 planetary systems as part of the REsolved…

We present a new approach to detecting and characterizing a magnetic field in protoplanetary disks through the differential broadening of unpolarized molecular emission from CN. To demonstrate this technique, we apply it to new ALMA…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-12 Richard Teague , Boy Lankhaar , Sean M. Andrews , Chunhua Qi , Roger R. Fu , David J. Wilner , John B. Biersteker , Joan R. Najita

The connection between the nature of a protoplanetary disk and that of a debris disk is not well understood. Dust evolution, planet formation, and disk dissipation likely play a role in the processes involved. We aim to reconcile both…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Arnaud Michel , Nienke van der Marel , Brenda Matthews

High resolution ALMA observations of protoplanetary disks have revealed that many, if not all primordial disks consist of ring-like dust structures. The origin of these dust rings remains unclear, but a common explanation is the presence of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Nienke van der Marel , Jonathan Williams , Simon Bruderer

Protoplanets and circumplanetary disks are rather elusive in their thermal IR emission. Yet they are cornerstone to the most popular interpretations for the protoplanetary disks structures observed in the gas and dust density fields, even…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Simon Casassus , Sebastian Perez

To explain important properties of extrasolar planetary systems (eg. close-in hot Jupiters, resonant planets) an evolutionary scenario which allows for radial migration of planets in disks is required. During their formation protoplanets…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Willy Kley

The chemical properties of protoplanetary disks are especially sensitive to their ionization environment. Sources of molecular gas ionization include cosmic rays, stellar X-rays and short-lived radionuclides, each of which varies with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 L. I. Cleeves , Edwin A. Bergin , Fred C. Adams

Protoplanetary disks are the sites of vigorous hydrodynamic processes, such as accretion and outflows, and ultimately establish the conditions for the formation of planets. The properties of disk outflows are often inferred through analysis…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-18 Ahmad Nemer , ChangHoon Hahn , Jiaxuan Li , Peter Melchior , Jeremy Goodman

We present sub-arcsecond resolution ALMA imaging of the CO(3-2) emission in two $z\sim2.5$ heavily reddened quasars (HRQs) - ULASJ1234+0907 and ULASJ2315+0143 - and their companion galaxies. Dynamical modeling of the resolved velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Manda Banerji , Gareth C. Jones , Stefano Carniani , Colin DeGraf , Jeff Wagg

Context: While sub-micron- and micron-sized dust grains are generally well mixed with the gas phase in protoplanetary disks, larger grains will be partially decoupled and as a consequence have a different distribution from that of the gas.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Laure Fouchet , Jean-François Gonzalez , Sarah T. Maddison

Despite being $>10$Myr, there are $\sim$10 debris discs with as much CO gas as in protoplanetary discs. Such discs have been assumed to be "hybrid", i.e., with secondary dust but primordial gas. Here we show that both the dust and gas in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Quentin Kral , Sebastian Marino , Mark C. Wyatt , Mihkel Kama , Luca Matra