Transition disks: the observational revolution from SEDs to imaging

N van der Marel - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2023 - epjplus.epj.org
Protoplanetary disks surrounding young stars are the birth place of planets. Of particular
interest are the transition disks with large inner dust cavities of tens of au, hinting at the …

Imaging extrasolar giant planets

BP Bowler - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
High-contrast adaptive optics (AO) imaging is a powerful technique to probe the
architectures of planetary systems from the outside-in and survey the atmospheres of self …

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 …

Long-term evolution of binary orbits induced by circumbinary disks

R Valli, C Tiede, A Vigna-Gómez, J Cuadra… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Circumbinary disks are found in a variety of astrophysical scenarios, spanning binary star
formation to accreting supermassive black hole binaries. Depending on the characteristics of …

Shadows and spirals in the protoplanetary disk HD 100453

M Benisty, T Stolker, A Pohl, J De Boer, G Lesur… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Context. Understanding the diversity of planets requires studying the morphology and
physical conditions in the protoplanetary disks in which they form. Aims. We aim to study the …

Circumbinary, not transitional: on the spiral arms, cavity, shadows, fast radial flows, streamers, and horseshoe in the HD 142527 disc

DJ Price, N Cuello, C Pinte, D Mentiplay… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present 3D hydrodynamical models of the HD 142527 protoplanetary disc, a bright and
well-studied disc that shows spirals and shadows in scattered light around a 100 au gas …

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 …

On the diversity of asymmetries in gapped protoplanetary disks

N Van der Marel, T Birnstiel, A Garufi… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Protoplanetary disks with large inner dust cavities are thought to host massive planetary or
substellar companions. These disks show asymmetries and rings in the millimeter …

The degree of alignment between circumbinary disks and their binary hosts

I Czekala, E Chiang, SM Andrews… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
All four circumbinary (CB) protoplanetary disks orbiting short-period (P< 20 days) double-
lined spectroscopic binaries (SB2s)—a group that includes UZ Tau E, for which we present …

On the origin of horseshoes in transitional discs

E Ragusa, G Dipierro, G Lodato… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We investigate whether the rings, lopsided features and horseshoes observed at millimetre
(mm) wavelengths in transitional discs can be explained by the dynamics of gas and dust at …