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The formation of the large-scale structure, the evolution and distribution of galaxies, quasars, and dark matter on cosmological scales, requires numerical simulations. Differentiable simulations provide gradients of the cosmological…

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We present 1.3 mm continuum ALMA long-baseline observations at 3-5 au resolution of 10 of the brightest discs from the Ophiuchus DIsc Survey Employing ALMA (ODISEA) project. We identify a total of 26 narrow rings and gaps distributed in 8…

Recent observations of young stellar systems with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) are helping to cement the idea that close companion stars form via fragmentation of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti , Fidel Cruz , Ruslan Gabbasov , Jaime Klapp , José Ramírez-Velasquez

High-resolution observations of edge-on proto-planetary disks in emission from molecular species sampling different critical densities and formation pathways offer the opportunity to trace the vertical chemical and physical structures of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 D. Ruíz-Rodríguez , J. H. Kastner , P. Hily-Blant , T. Forveille

The field of planet formation is in an exciting era, where recent observations of disks around low- to intermediate-mass stars made with state of the art interferometers and high-contrast optical and IR facilities have revealed a diversity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-21 A. Miotello , I. Kamp , T. Birnstiel , L. I. Cleeves , A. Kataoka

High-resolution sub-mm observations of some protoplanetary discs reveal non-asixymmetric features, which can often be interpreted as dust concentrations in vortices that form at the edges of gaps carved out by the embedded planets. We use…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-06 Roman R. Rafikov , Nicolas P. Cimerman

Recent mm-wavelength surveys performed with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) have revealed protoplanetary discs characterized by rings and gaps. A possible explanation for the origin of such rings is the tidal interaction with an…

Observations of protoplanetary disks with high angular resolution using an ALMA interferometer showed that ring-shaped structures are often visible in their images, indicating strong disturbances in the disks. The mechanisms of their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-01 Tatiana V. Demidova , Vladimir P. Grinin

High-dimensional astronomical data cubes provide a wealth of spectral and structural information that can be used to study astrophysical and chemical processes. The complexity and sheer size of these datasets pose significant challenges in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Haley N. Scolati , Ryan A. Loomis , Anthony J. Remijan , Kin Long Kelvin Lee

Current imaging observations of protoplanetary disks using ALMA primarily focus on the sub-millimeter wavelength, leaving a gap in effective observational approaches for centimeter-sized dust, which is crucial to the issue of planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-18 Yinhao Wu , Shang-Fei Liu , Haochang Jiang , Sergei Nayakshin

We present simulations of the capabilities of the ngVLA to image at $\sim 0.75$ kpc resolution ($0.085"$), molecular line emission from star forming disk galaxies at high redshift. The results are compared to the current capabilities of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-26 C. L. Carilli , M. Neeleman

We present a suite of ALMA interferometric molecular line and continuum images that elucidate, on linear size scales of $\sim$30--40 AU, the chemical structure of the nearby, evolved, protoplanetary disk orbiting the close binary system…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Joel H. Kastner , C. Qi , D. A. Dickson-Vandervelde , P. Hily-Blant , T. Forveille , S. Andrews , U. Gorti , K. Öberg , D. Wilner

The protoplanetary disk around the T Tauri star GM Aur was one of the first hypothesized to be in the midst of being cleared out by a forming planet. As a result, GM Aur has had an outsized influence on our understanding of disk structure…

We present a new 2D axisymmetric code, cuDisc, for studying protoplanetary discs, focusing on the self-consistent calculation of dust dynamics, grain size distribution and disc temperature. Self-consistently studying these physical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-29 Alfie Robinson , Richard A. Booth , James E. Owen

The properties of the interstellar medium (ISM) of the highest-redshift galaxies and quasars provide important indications of the complex interplay between the accretion of baryons onto galaxies, the physics that drives the build-up of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-15 Evanthia Hatziminaoglou , Gergö Popping , Martin Zwaan

Thanks to recent high resolution ALMA observations, there is an accumulating evidence for presence of giant planets with masses from $\sim 0.01$ Jupiter mass to a few Jupiter mass with separations up to $ 100$~AU in the annular structures…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 S. Nayakshin , G. Dipierro , J. Szulagyi

We present the first kinematical detection of embedded protoplanets within a protoplanetary disk. Using archival ALMA observations of HD 163296, we demonstrate a new technique to measure the rotation curves of CO isotopologue emission to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 Richard Teague , Jaehan Bae , Edwin Bergin , Tilman Birnstiel , Daniel Foreman-Mackey

VLT instruments and ALMA have revolutionized in the past five years our view and understanding of how disks turn into planetary systems. They provide exquisite insights into non-axisymmetric structures likely closely related to ongoing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-22 I. Kamp

Many dozens of circumstellar discs show signatures of sculpting by planets. To help find these protoplanets by direct imaging, we compute their broadband spectral energy distributions, which overlap with the JWST (James Webb Space…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-16 Nick Choksi , Eugene Chiang

Molecular snow lines in protoplanetary disks have been studied theoretically for decades because of their importance in shaping planetary architectures and compositions. The water snow line lies in the planet formation region at < 10 AU,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Andrea Banzatti , Paola Pinilla , Luca Ricci , Klaus M. Pontoppidan , Til Birnstiel , Fred Ciesla