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 …

[HTML][HTML] Empirical constraints on turbulence in proto-planetary discs

GP Rosotti - New Astronomy Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Proto-planetary discs, the birth environment of planets, are an example of a structure
commonly found in astrophysics, accretion discs. Identifying the mechanism responsible for …

The disk substructures at high angular resolution project (DSHARP). I. Motivation, sample, calibration, and overview

SM Andrews, J Huang, LM Pérez, A Isella… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We introduce the Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP),
one of the initial Large Programs conducted with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter …

A highly settled disk around oph163131

M Villenave, KR Stapelfeldt, G Duchêne… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
High dust density in the midplane of protoplanetary disks is favorable for efficient grain
growth and can allow fast formation of planetesimals and planets, before disks dissipate …

Contemporary formation of early Solar System planetesimals at two distinct radial locations

A Morbidelli, K Baillie, K Batygin, S Charnoz… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The formation of planetesimals is expected to occur via particle-gas instabilities that
concentrate dust into self-gravitating clumps,–. Triggering these instabilities requires the …

The disk substructures at high angular resolution project (DSHARP). II. Characteristics of annular substructures

J Huang, SM Andrews, CP Dullemond… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP) used ALMA
to map the 1.25 mm continuum of protoplanetary disks at a spatial resolution of∼ 5 au. We …

The disk substructures at high angular resolution project (DSHARP). VII. The planet–disk interactions interpretation

S Zhang, Z Zhu, J Huang, VV Guzmán… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP) provides a
large sample of protoplanetary disks with substructures that could be induced by young …

Planetesimal rings as the cause of the Solar System's planetary architecture

A Izidoro, R Dasgupta, SN Raymond, R Deienno… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Astronomical observations reveal that protoplanetary disks around young stars commonly
have ring-and gap-like structures in their dust distributions. These features are associated …

Compact disks in a high-resolution ALMA survey of dust structures in the Taurus molecular cloud

F Long, GJ Herczeg, D Harsono, P Pinilla… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a high-resolution (∼ 0 farcs 12,∼ 16 au, mean sensitivity of 50 μJy beam− 1 at
225 GHz) snapshot survey of 32 protoplanetary disks around young stars with spectral type …

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 …