Transition disks: the observational revolution from SEDs to imaging

N van der Marel - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2023 - epjplus.epj.org
Protoplanetary disks surrounding young stars are the birth place of planets. Of particular
interest are the transition disks with large inner dust cavities of tens of au, hinting at the …

Dust growth and evolution in protoplanetary disks

T Birnstiel - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Over the past decade, advancement of observational capabilities, specifically the Atacama
Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast …

Constraining the gas distribution in the PDS 70 disc as a method to assess the effect of planet-disc interactions

B Portilla-Revelo, I Kamp, S Facchini… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Embedded planets are potentially the cause of substructures, such as gaps and
cavities, observed in the continuum images of several protoplanetary discs. Likewise, gas …

Massive Compact Dust Disk with a Gap around CW Tau Revealed by ALMA Multiband Observations

T Ueda, A Kataoka, T Tsukagoshi - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Compact protoplanetary disks with a radius of≲ 50 au are common around young low-mass
stars. We report high-resolution ALMA dust continuum observations toward a compact disk …

Do all gaps in protoplanetary discs host planets?

A Tzouvanou, B Bitsch, G Pichierri - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
Following the assumption that the disc substructures observed in protoplanetary discs
originate from the interaction between the disc and the forming planets embedded therein …

A Large Double-ring Disk Around the Taurus M Dwarf J04124068+ 2438157

F Long, BB Ren, NL Wallack, D Harsono… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Planet formation imprints signatures on the physical structures of disks. In this paper, we
present high-resolution (∼ 50 mas, 8 au) Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array …

Hydro-, magnetohydro-, and dust-gas dynamics of protoplanetary disks

G Lesur, B Ercolano, M Flock, MK Lin, CC Yang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The building of planetary systems is controlled by the gas and dust dynamics of
protoplanetary disks. While the gas is simultaneously accreted onto the central star and …

The impact of dust evolution on the dead zone outer edge in magnetized protoplanetary disks

TN Delage, M Gárate, S Okuzumi, CC Yang… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The dead zone outer edge corresponds to the transition from the magnetically dead
to the magnetorotational instability (MRI) active regions in the outer protoplanetary disk …

First steps of planet formation around very low mass stars and brown dwarfs

P Pinilla - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2022 - Springer
Brown dwarfs and very low mass stars are a significant fraction of stars in our galaxy and
they are interesting laboratories to investigate planet formation in extreme conditions of low …

Vertical shear instability in two-moment radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of irradiated protoplanetary disks-II. Secondary instabilities and stability regions

JDM Fuksman, M Flock, H Klahr - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. The vertical shear instability (VSI) is a hydrodynamical instability predicted to
produce turbulence in magnetically inactive regions of protoplanetary disks. The regions in …