Ringed substructure and a gap at 1 au in the nearest protoplanetary disk

SM Andrews, DJ Wilner, Z Zhu, T Birnstiel… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present long baseline Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)
observations of the 870 μm continuum emission from the nearest gas-rich protoplanetary …

Turbulence in the TW Hya disk

KM Flaherty, AM Hughes, R Teague… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Turbulence is a fundamental parameter in models of grain growth during the early stages of
planet formation. As such, observational constraints on its magnitude are crucial. Here we …

Planetesimal formation near the snowline: in or out?

D Schoonenberg, CW Ormel - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2017 - aanda.org
Context. The formation of planetesimals in protoplanetary disks is not well-understood.
Streaming instability is a promising mechanism to directly form planetesimals from pebble …

Three radial gaps in the disk of TW Hydrae imaged with SPHERE

R Van Boekel, T Henning, J Menu… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present scattered light images of the TW Hya disk performed with the Spectro-
Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument in Polarimetric Differential …

Imaging the water snow-line during a protostellar outburst

LA Cieza, S Casassus, J Tobin, SP Bos, JP Williams… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
A snow-line is the region of a protoplanetary disk at which a major volatile, such as water or
carbon monoxide, reaches its condensation temperature. Snow-lines play a crucial role in …

Global simulations of protoplanetary disks with net magnetic flux-i. non-ideal mhd case

W Béthune, G Lesur, J Ferreira - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2017 - aanda.org
Context. The planet-forming region of protoplanetary disks is cold, dense, and therefore
weakly ionized. For this reason, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is thought to be …

CO and dust properties in the TW Hya disk from high-resolution ALMA observations

J Huang, SM Andrews, LI Cleeves… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze high angular resolution ALMA observations of the TW Hya disk to place
constraints on the CO and dust properties. We present new, sensitive observations of the 12 …

First detection of gas-phase methanol in a protoplanetary disk

C Walsh, RA Loomis, KI Öberg, M Kama… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The first detection of gas-phase methanol in a protoplanetary disk (TW Hya) is presented. In
addition to being one of the largest molecules detected in disks to date, methanol is also the …

The radial distribution of H2 and CO in TW Hya as revealed by resolved ALMA observations of CO isotopologues

KR Schwarz, EA Bergin, LI Cleeves… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT CO is widely used as a tracer of molecular gas. However, there is now mounting
evidence that gas phase carbon is depleted in the disk around TW Hya. Previous efforts to …

Global simulations of the inner regions of protoplanetary disks with comprehensive disk microphysics

XN Bai - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The gas dynamics of weakly ionized protoplanetary disks (PPDs) are largely governed by
the coupling between gas and magnetic fields, described by three non-ideal …