Modelling photoevaporation in planet forming discs

B Ercolano, G Picogna - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2022 - Springer
Planets are born from the gas and dust discs surrounding young stars. Energetic radiation
from the central star can drive thermal outflows from the discs atmospheres, strongly …

Spatial distribution of crystalline silicates in protoplanetary disks: How to interpret mid-infrared observations

H Jang, R Waters, I Kamp, CP Dullemond - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Crystalline silicates are an important tracer of the evolution of dust, the main
building block of planet formation. In an inner protoplanetary disk, amorphous silicates are …

JWST Imaging of Edge-on Protoplanetary Disks. I. Fully Vertically Mixed 10 μm Grains in the Outer Regions of a 1000 au Disk

G Duchêne, F Ménard, KR Stapelfeldt… - The Astronomical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Scattered light imaging of protoplanetary disks provides key insights on the geometry and
dust properties in the disk surface. Here, we present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) …

Modelling the secular evolution of protoplanetary disc dust sizes–a comparison between the viscous and magnetic wind case

F Zagaria, GP Rosotti, CJ Clarke… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
For many years, protoplanetary discs have been thought to evolve viscously: angular
momentum redistribution leads to accretion and outward disc spreading. Recently, the …

Interpreting molecular hydrogen and atomic oxygen line emission of T Tauri disks with photoevaporative disk-wind models

C Rab, M Weber, T Grassi, B Ercolano… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Winds in protoplanetary disks play an important role in their evolution and
dispersal. However, the physical process that is actually driving the winds is still unclear (ie …

Physical conditions for dust grain alignment in Class 0 protostellar cores-I. Observations of dust polarization and molecular irradiation tracers

VJM Le Gouellec, AJ Maury, CLH Hull - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. High angular resolution observations of Class 0 protostars have produced detailed
maps of the polarized dust emission in the envelopes of these young embedded objects …

An inflationary disk phase to explain extended protoplanetary dust disks

R Marschall, A Morbidelli - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Understanding planetesimal formation is an essential first step towards
understanding planet formation. The distribution of these first solid bodies drives the …

The impact of dust evolution on the dead zone outer edge in magnetized protoplanetary disks

TN Delage, M Gárate, S Okuzumi, CC Yang… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The dead zone outer edge corresponds to the transition from the magnetically dead
to the magnetorotational instability (MRI) active regions in the outer protoplanetary disk …

Introducing cuDisc: a 2D code for protoplanetary disc structure and evolution calculations

A Robinson, RA Booth, JE Owen - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present a new two-dimensional (2D) axisymmetric code, cuDisc, for studying
protoplanetary discs, focusing on the self-consistent calculation of dust dynamics, grain-size …

Photoionized Herbig–Haro objects in the Orion Nebula through deep high-spectral resolution spectroscopy–III. HH 514

JE Méndez-Delgado, C Esteban… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We analyse the physical conditions and chemical composition of the photoionized Herbig–
Haro object HH 514, which emerges from the protoplanetary disc (proplyd) 170-337 in the …