Water in star-forming regions: physics and chemistry from clouds to disks as probed by Herschel spectroscopy

EF van Dishoeck, LE Kristensen, JC Mottram… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. Water is a key molecule in the physics and chemistry of star and planet formation,
but it is difficult to observe from Earth. The Herschel Space Observatory provided …

A tale of planet formation: from dust to planets

B Liu, J Ji - Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The characterization of exoplanets and their birth protoplanetary disks has enormously
advanced in the last decade. Benefitting from that, our global understanding of the planet …

A two-stage formalism for common-envelope phases of massive stars

R Hirai, I Mandel - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a new simple formalism to predict the orbital separations after common-
envelope phases with massive-star donors. We focus on the fact that massive red …

Structured distributions of gas and solids in protoplanetary disks

J Bae, A Isella, Z Zhu, R Martin, S Okuzumi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Recent spatially-resolved observations of protoplanetary disks revealed a plethora of
substructures, including concentric rings and gaps, inner cavities, misalignments, spiral …

Perturbers: SPHERE detection limits to planetary-mass companions in protoplanetary disks

R Asensio-Torres, T Henning, F Cantalloube… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
The detection of a wide range of substructures such as rings, cavities, and spirals has
become a common outcome of high spatial resolution imaging of protoplanetary disks, both …

Mapping Protoplanetary Disk Vertical Structure with CO Isotopologue Line Emission

CJ Law, R Teague, KI Öberg, EA Rich… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
High-spatial-resolution observations of CO isotopologue line emission in protoplanetary
disks at mid-inclinations (≈ 30–75) allow us to characterize the gas structure in detail …

Annular substructures in the transition disks around LkCa 15 and J1610

S Facchini, M Benisty, J Bae, R Loomis, L Perez… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
We present high-resolution millimeter continuum ALMA observations of the disks around the
T Tauri stars LkCa 15 and 2MASS J16100501-2132318 (hereafter, J1610). These transition …

An unbiased ALMA spectral survey of the LkCa 15 and MWC 480 protoplanetary disks

RA Loomis, KI Öberg, SM Andrews… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The volatile contents of protoplanetary disks both set the potential for planetary chemistry
and provide valuable probes of defining disk system characteristics such as stellar mass …

ALMA detection of dust trapping around Lagrangian points in the LkCa 15 disk

F Long, SM Andrews, S Zhang, C Qi… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present deep high-resolution (∼ 50 mas, 8 au) Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter
Array (ALMA) 0.88 and 1.3 mm continuum observations of the LkCa 15 disk. The emission …

Disentangling the protoplanetary disk gas mass and carbon depletion through combined atomic and molecular tracers

JA Sturm, AS Booth, MK McClure, M Leemker… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The total disk gas mass and elemental C, N, and O composition of protoplanetary
disks are crucial ingredients for improving our understanding of planetary formation …