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 …

Dust evolution and the formation of planetesimals

T Birnstiel, M Fang, A Johansen - Space Science Reviews, 2016 - Springer
The solid content of circumstellar disks is inherited from the interstellar medium: dust
particles of at most a micrometer in size. Protoplanetary disks are the environment where …

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 …

The disk substructures at high angular resolution project (DSHARP). VI. Dust trapping in thin-ringed protoplanetary disks

CP Dullemond, T Birnstiel, J Huang… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A large fraction of the protoplanetary disks observed with ALMA display multiple well-
defined and nearly perfectly circular rings in the continuum, in many cases with substantial …

Confirmation and Keplerian motion of the gap-carving protoplanet HD 169142 b

I Hammond, V Christiaens, DJ Price… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present the re-detection of a compact source in the face-on protoplanetary disc
surrounding HD 169142, using VLT/SPHERE data in YJH bands. The source is found at a …

Pebble-isolation mass: Scaling law and implications for the formation of super-Earths and gas giants

B Bitsch, A Morbidelli, A Johansen, E Lega… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
The growth of a planetary core by pebble accretion stops at the so-called pebble isolation
mass, when the core generates a pressure bump that traps drifting pebbles outside its orbit …

Asymmetric features in the protoplanetary disk MWC 758

M Benisty, A Juhász, A Boccaletti, H Avenhaus… - Astronomy & …, 2015 - aanda.org
Context. The study of dynamical processes in protoplanetary disks is essential to understand
planet formation. In this context, transition disks are prime targets because they are at an …

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 structures in Ophiuchus

SM Andrews, DJ Wilner, AM Hughes, C Qi… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of a high angular resolution (0 farcs 3≈ 40 AU) Submillimeter Array
survey of the 345 GHz (870 μm) thermal continuum emission from nine of the brightest, and …