The juno mission

SJ Bolton, J Lunine, D Stevenson… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
Juno is a PI-led mission to Jupiter, the second mission in NASA's New Frontiers Program.
The 3625-kg spacecraft spins at 2 rpm and is powered by three 9-meter-long solar arrays …

Planet-disk interaction and orbital evolution

W Kley, RP Nelson - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
As planets form and grow within gaseous protoplanetary disks, the mutual gravitational
interaction between the disk and planet leads to the exchange of angular momentum and …

Images of embedded Jovian planet formation at a wide separation around AB Aurigae

T Currie, K Lawson, G Schneider, W Lyra… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Direct images of protoplanets embedded in disks around infant stars provide the key to
understanding the formation of gas giant planets such as Jupiter. Using the Subaru …

The SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE)-III. The demographics of young giant exoplanets below 300 au with SPHERE

A Vigan, C Fontanive, M Meyer, B Biller… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
The SpHere INfrared Exoplanet (SHINE) project is a 500-star survey performed with
SPHERE on the Very Large Telescope for the purpose of directly detecting new substellar …

The PLATO 2.0 mission

H Rauer, C Catala, C Aerts, T Appourchaux… - Experimental …, 2014 - Springer
PLATO 2.0 has recently been selected for ESA's M3 launch opportunity (2022/24). Providing
accurate key planet parameters (radius, mass, density and age) in statistical numbers, it …

Disk frequencies and lifetimes in young clusters

KE Haisch Jr, EA Lada, CJ Lada - The Astrophysical Journal, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the results of the first sensitive L-band survey of the intermediate-age (2.5–30 Myr)
clusters NGC 2264, NGC 2362, and NGC 1960. We use JHKL colors to obtain a census of …

Resolved images of large cavities in protoplanetary transition disks

SM Andrews, DJ Wilner, C Espaillat… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Circumstellar disks are thought to experience a rapid" transition" phase in their evolution that
can have a considerable impact on the formation and early development of planetary …

Nonlinear outcome of gravitational instability in cooling, gaseous disks

CF Gammie - The Astrophysical Journal, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
Thin, Keplerian accretion disks generically become gravitationally unstable at large radii. I
investigate the nonlinear outcome of such instability in cool disks using razor-thin, local …

Detection and bulk properties of the HR 8799 planets with high-resolution spectroscopy

JJ Wang, JB Ruffio, E Morris, JR Delorme… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer, we obtained high-resolution (R∼
35,000) K-band spectra of the four planets orbiting HR 8799. We clearly detected H 2 O and …

Circumstellar dust disks in Taurus-Auriga: the submillimeter perspective

SM Andrews, JP Williams - The Astrophysical Journal, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a sensitive, multiwavelength submillimeter continuum survey of 153 young
stellar objects in the Taurus-Auriga star formation region. The submillimeter detection rate is …