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 …

History of the solar nebula from meteorite paleomagnetism

BP Weiss, XN Bai, RR Fu - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
We review recent advances in our understanding of magnetism in the solar nebula and
protoplanetary disks (PPDs). We discuss the implications of theory, meteorite …

Dust enrichment and grain growth in a smooth disk around the DG Tau protostar revealed by ALMA triple bands frequency observations

S Ohashi, M Momose, A Kataoka… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Characterizing the physical properties of dust grains in a protoplanetary disk is critical to
comprehending the planet formation process. Our study presents Atacama Large Millimeter …

Dust polarization toward embedded protostars in Ophiuchus with ALMA. III. Survey overview

SI Sadavoy, IW Stephens, PC Myers… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We present 0 farcs 25 resolution (35 au) ALMA 1.3 mm dust polarization
observations for 37 young stellar objects (YSOs) in the Ophiuchus molecular cloud. These …

On Internal and External Alignment of Dust Grains in Protostellar Environments

T Hoang, VHM Phan, NC Giang… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Multiwavelength observations toward protostars reveal complex properties of dust
polarization, which are challenging to interpret. Here we study the physical processes …

Radial variations in grain sizes and dust scale heights in the protoplanetary disk around HD 163296 revealed by ALMA polarization observations

S Ohashi, A Kataoka - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The disk of HD 163296 shows ring and gap substructures in observations with the Atacama
Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. In addition, this is the only disk where the rings and …

Nonsticky ice at the origin of the uniformly polarized submillimeter emission from the HL tau disk

S Okuzumi, R Tazaki - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent (sub) millimeter polarimetric observations toward the young star HL Tau have
successfully detected polarization emission from its circumstellar disk. The polarization …

Unveiling dust aggregate structure in protoplanetary disks by millimeter-wave scattering polarization

R Tazaki, H Tanaka, A Kataoka… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Dust coagulation in a protoplanetary disk is the first step in planetesimal formation. However,
the pathway from dust aggregates to planetesimals remains unclear. Both numerical …

Dust growth and evolution in protoplanetary disks

T Birnstiel - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Over the past decade, advancement of observational capabilities, specifically the Atacama
Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast …

Discovery of Molecular-line Polarization in the Disk of TW Hya

R Teague, CLH Hull, S Guilloteau… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We report observations of polarized line and continuum emission from the disk of TW Hya
using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. We target three emission lines, 12 …