Observations of protoplanetary disk structures

SM Andrews - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The disks that orbit young stars are the essential conduits and reservoirs of material for star
and planet formation. Their structures, meaning the spatial variations of the disk physical …

Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). I. Program overview and highlights

KI Öberg, VV Guzmán, C Walsh, Y Aikawa… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Planets form and obtain their compositions in dust-and gas-rich disks around young stars,
and the outcome of this process is intimately linked to the disk chemical properties. The …

Molecules with ALMA at planet-forming scales (MAPS). III. Characteristics of radial chemical substructures

CJ Law, RA Loomis, R Teague, KI Öberg… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS) Large Program provides a
detailed, high-resolution (∼ 10–20 au) view of molecular line emission in five protoplanetary …

The mass dependence between protoplanetary disks and their stellar hosts

SM Andrews, KA Rosenfeld, AL Kraus… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a substantial extension of the millimeter (mm) wave continuum photometry
catalog for circumstellar dust disks in the Taurus star-forming region, based on a new" …

Dust evolution and the formation of planetesimals

T Birnstiel, M Fang, A Johansen - Space Science Reviews, 2016 - Springer
The solid content of circumstellar disks is inherited from the interstellar medium: dust
particles of at most a micrometer in size. Protoplanetary disks are the environment where …

The Ophiuchus DIsc Survey Employing ALMA (ODISEA)–I: project description and continuum images at 28 au resolution

LA Cieza, D Ruíz-Rodríguez, A Hales… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract We introduce the Ophiuchus DIsc Survey Employing ALMA (ODISEA), a project
aiming to study the entire population of Spitzer-selected protoplanetary discs in the …

Gas disk sizes from CO line observations: a test of angular momentum evolution

F Long, SM Andrews, G Rosotti… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The size of a disk encodes important information about its evolution. Combining new
Submillimeter Array observations with archival Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter …

Weak turbulence in the HD 163296 protoplanetary disk revealed by ALMA CO observations

KM Flaherty, AM Hughes, KA Rosenfeld… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Turbulence can transport angular momentum in protoplanetary disks and influence the
growth and evolution of planets. With spatially and spectrally resolved molecular emission …

Protoplanetary disks and their evolution

JP Williams, LA Cieza - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Flattened, rotating disks of cool dust and gas extending for tens to hundreds of astronomical
units are found around almost all low-mass stars shortly after their birth. These disks …

Protoplanetary disk structures in Ophiuchus

SM Andrews, DJ Wilner, AM Hughes, C Qi… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of a high angular resolution (0 farcs 3≈ 40 AU) Submillimeter Array
survey of the 345 GHz (870 μm) thermal continuum emission from nine of the brightest, and …