Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). I. Program overview and highlights

KI Öberg, VV Guzmán, C Walsh, Y Aikawa… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Planets form and obtain their compositions in dust-and gas-rich disks around young stars,
and the outcome of this process is intimately linked to the disk chemical properties. The …

A circumplanetary disk around PDS70c

M Benisty, J Bae, S Facchini, M Keppler… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
PDS 70 is a unique system in which two protoplanets, PDS 70 b and c, have been
discovered within the dust-depleted cavity of their disk, at∼ 22 and 34 au, respectively, by …

Water in the terrestrial planet-forming zone of the PDS 70 disk

G Perotti, V Christiaens, T Henning, B Tabone… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Terrestrial and sub-Neptune planets are expected to form in the inner (less than 10 au)
regions of protoplanetary disks. Water plays a key role in their formation,–, although it is yet …

Molecules with ALMA at planet-forming scales (MAPS). III. Characteristics of radial chemical substructures

CJ Law, RA Loomis, R Teague, KI Öberg… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS) Large Program provides a
detailed, high-resolution (∼ 10–20 au) view of molecular line emission in five protoplanetary …

Probing inner and outer disk misalignments in transition disks-Constraints from VLTI/GRAVITY and ALMA observations

AJ Bohn, M Benisty, K Perraut, N van Der Marel… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Transition disks are protoplanetary disks with dust-depleted cavities, possibly
indicating substantial clearing of their dust content by a massive companion. For several …

Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). XVIII. Kinematic Substructures in the Disks of HD 163296 and MWC 480

R Teague, J Bae, Y Aikawa, SM Andrews… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore the dynamical structure of the protoplanetary disks surrounding HD 163296 and
MWC 480 as part of the Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS) large …

Detection of continuum submillimeter emission associated with candidate protoplanets

A Isella, M Benisty, R Teague, J Bae… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the discovery of a spatially unresolved source of submillimeter continuum
emission (λ= 855 μm) associated with a young planet, PDS 70 c, recently detected in Hα …

Constraining the Nature of the PDS 70 Protoplanets with VLTI/GRAVITY∗

JJ Wang, A Vigan, S Lacour, M Nowak… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present K-band interferometric observations of the PDS 70 protoplanets along with their
host star using VLTI/GRAVITY. We obtained K-band spectra and 100 μas precision …

Dust-depleted inner disks in a large sample of transition disks through long-baseline ALMA observations

L Francis, N van der Marel - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Transition disks with large inner dust cavities are thought to host massive companions.
However, the disk structure inside the companion orbit and how material flows toward an …

A stellar mass dependence of structured disks: a possible link with exoplanet demographics

N van der Marel, GD Mulders - The Astronomical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Gaps in protoplanetary disks have long been hailed as signposts of planet formation.
However, a direct link between exoplanets and disks remains hard to identify. We present a …