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 …

Demographics of young stars and their protoplanetary disks: lessons learned on disk evolution and its connection to planet formation

CF Manara, M Ansdell, GP Rosotti, AM Hughes… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Since Protostars and Planets VI (PPVI), our knowledge of the global properties of
protoplanetary and debris disks, as well as of young stars, has dramatically improved. At the …

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). I. Overview of the Program and First Results

N Ohashi, JJ Tobin, JK Jørgensen… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an overview of the Large Program," Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks
(eDisk)," conducted with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The …

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 …

Dust masses of young disks: constraining the initial solid reservoir for planet formation

Ł Tychoniec, CF Manara, GP Rosotti… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Recent years have seen building evidence that planet formation starts early, in the
first~ 0.5 Myr. Studying the dust masses available in young disks enables us to understand …

Planet formation theory in the era of ALMA and Kepler: from pebbles to exoplanets

J Drazkowska, B Bitsch, M Lambrechts… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Our understanding of planet formation has been rapidly evolving in recent years. The
classical planet formation theory, developed when the only known planetary system was our …

A stellar mass dependence of structured disks: a possible link with exoplanet demographics

N van der Marel, GD Mulders - The Astronomical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Gaps in protoplanetary disks have long been hailed as signposts of planet formation.
However, a direct link between exoplanets and disks remains hard to identify. We present a …

JWST reveals excess cool water near the snow line in compact disks, consistent with pebble drift

A Banzatti, KM Pontoppidan, JS Carr… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Previous analyses of mid-infrared water spectra from young protoplanetary disks observed
with the Spitzer-IRS found an anticorrelation between water luminosity and the millimeter …

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 …

Molecules with ALMA at planet-forming scales (MAPS). VII. Substellar O/H and C/H and superstellar C/O in planet-feeding gas

AD Bosman, F Alarcón, EA Bergin… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The elemental composition of the gas and dust in a protoplanetary disk influences the
compositions of the planets that form in it. We use the Molecules with ALMA at Planet …