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We present \textbf{VADER} (Variational Autoencoder for Disks Embedded with Rings), for inferring both planet mass and global disk properties from high-resolution ALMA dust continuum images of protoplanetary disks (PPDs). VADER, a…

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Interferometric observations of protoplanetary disks by VLTI and ALMA have greatly improved our understanding of the detailed structure of these planetary birthplaces. These observations have revealed a variety of large-scale disk…

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Dust substructures in protoplanetary discs can be signatures of embedded young planets whose detection and characterisation would provide a better understanding of planet formation. Traditional techniques used to link substructures'…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 A. Ruzza , G. Lodato , G. P. Rosotti , P. J. Armitage

Potential signatures of proto-planets embedded in their natal protoplanetary disk are radial gaps or cavities in the continuum emission in the IR-mm wavelength range. ALMA observations are now probing spatially resolved rotational line…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-09 Stefano Facchini , Paola Pinilla , Ewine F. van Dishoeck , Maria de Juan Ovelar

[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…

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We investigate the possibility to find evidence for planets in circumstellar disks by infrared and submillimeter interferometry. We present simulations of a circumstellar disk around a solar-type star with an embedded planet of 1 Jupiter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Wolf , F. Gueth , Th. Henning , W. Kley

The vertical distribution of pebbles in protoplanetary disks is a fundamental property influencing planet formation, from dust aggregation to the assembly of planetary cores. In the outer region of protoplanetary disks, the intensity of the…

Recent ALMA observations have identified a variety of dust gaps in protoplanetary disks, which are commonly interpreted to be generated by unobserved planets. Predicting mass of such embedded planets is of fundamental importance in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Shijie Wang , Kazuhiro D. Kanagawa , Yasushi Suto

Protoplanetary disks in massive star-forming regions may be exposed to ultraviolet radiation fields orders of magnitude stronger than the interstellar background. This intense radiation drives photoevaporative winds that fundamentally shape…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Luke Keyte , Thomas J. Haworth

We investigate the possibility to find evidence for planets in circumstellar disks by infrared and submillimeter interferometry. Hydrodynamical simulations of a circumstellar disk around a solar-type star with an embedded planet of 1…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Wolf , F. Gueth , Th. Henning , W. Kley

Planet induced sub-structures, like annular gaps, observed in dust emission from protoplanetary disks provide a unique probe to characterize unseen young planets. While deep learning based model has an edge in characterizing the planet's…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Sayantan Auddy , Ramit Dey , Min-Kai Lin , Daniel Carrera , Jacob B. Simon

Emission from the interstellar medium can be a significant contaminant of measurements of the intensity and polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). For planning CMB observations, and for optimizing foreground-cleaning…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Ben Thorne , Lloyd Knox , Karthik Prabhu

Theoretical models of grain growth predict dust properties to change as a function of protoplanetary disk radius, mass, age and other physical conditions. We lay down the methodology for a multi-wavelength analysis of (sub-)mm and cm…

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

We introduce Disk2Planet, a machine learning-based tool to infer key parameters in disk-planet systems from observed protoplanetary disk structures. Disk2Planet takes as input the disk structures in the form of two-dimensional density and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-27 Shunyuan Mao , Ruobing Dong , Kwang Moo Yi , Lu Lu , Sifan Wang , Paris Perdikaris

The migration of planetary cores embedded in a protoplanetary disk is an important mechanism within planet-formation theory, relevant for the architecture of planetary systems. Consequently, planet migration is actively discussed, yet often…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Philipp Weber , Sebastián Pérez , Pablo Benítez-Llambay , Oliver Gressel , Simon Casassus , Leonardo Krapp

Observations of bright protoplanetary disks often show annular gaps in their dust emission. One interpretation of these gaps is disk-planet interaction. If so, fitting models of planetary gaps to observed protoplanetary disk gaps can reveal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Sayantan Auddy , Min-Kai Lin

Physical imaging is a foundational characterization method in areas from condensed matter physics and chemistry to astronomy and spans length scales from atomic to universe. Images encapsulate crucial data regarding atomic bonding,…

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…

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Understanding the collapse of clouds and the formation of protoplanetary disks is essential to understanding the formation of stars and planets. Infall and accretion, the mass-aggregation processes that occur at envelope and disk scales,…

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