Circumbinary accretion: From binary stars to massive binary black holes

D Lai, DJ Muñoz - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We review recent works on the dynamics of circumbinary accretion, including time variability,
angular momentum transfer between the disk and the binary, and the secular evolution of …

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 …

Gaps and Rings in an ALMA Survey of Disks in the Taurus Star-forming Region

F Long, P Pinilla, GJ Herczeg, D Harsono… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Rings are the most frequently revealed substructure in Atacama Large Millimeter/
submillimeter Array (ALMA) dust observations of protoplanetary disks, but their origin is still …

Imaging extrasolar giant planets

BP Bowler - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
High-contrast adaptive optics (AO) imaging is a powerful technique to probe the
architectures of planetary systems from the outside-in and survey the atmospheres of self …

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 …

The Ophiuchus DIsc Survey Employing ALMA (ODISEA)–III. The evolution of substructures in massive discs at 3–5 au resolution

LA Cieza, C González-Ruilova, AS Hales… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present 1.3 mm continuum ALMA long-baseline observations at 3–5 au resolution of 10
of the brightest discs from the Ophiuchus DIsc Survey Employing ALMA (ODISEA) project …

Protoplanetary disk lifetimes vs. stellar mass and possible implications for giant planet populations

Á Ribas, H Bouy, B Merín - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2015 - aanda.org
Aims. We study the dependence of protoplanetary disk evolution on stellar mass using a
large sample of young stellar objects in nearby young star-forming regions. Methods. We …

An observational perspective of transitional disks

C Espaillat, J Muzerolle, J Najita, S Andrews… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2014 - arxiv.org
Transitional disks are objects whose inner disk regions have undergone substantial
clearing. The Spitzer Space Telescope produced detailed spectral energy distributions …

Gaia EDR3 reveals the substructure and complicated star formation history of the Greater Taurus-Auriga star-forming complex

DM Krolikowski, AL Kraus… - The Astronomical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Taurus-Auriga complex is the prototypical low-mass star-forming region, and
provides a unique testbed of the star formation process, which left observable imprints on …

LkCa 15: a young exoplanet caught at formation?

AL Kraus, MJ Ireland - The Astrophysical Journal, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Young and directly imaged exoplanets offer critical tests of planet-formation models that are
not matched by radial velocity surveys of mature stars. These targets have been extremely …