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 …

Evolution of debris disks

MC Wyatt - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Circumstellar dust exists around several hundred main sequence stars. For the youngest
stars, that dust could be a remnant of the protoplanetary disk. Mostly it is inferred to be …

The Spitzer c2d legacy results: star-formation rates and efficiencies; evolution and lifetimes

NJ Evans, MM Dunham, JK Jørgensen… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The c2d Spitzer Legacy project obtained images and photometry with both
IRAC and MIPS instruments for five large, nearby molecular clouds. Three of the clouds …

Rapid planetesimal formation in turbulent circumstellar disks

A Johansen, JS Oishi, MMM Low, H Klahr, T Henning… - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
During the initial stages of planet formation in circumstellar gas disks, dust grains collide and
build up larger and larger bodies. How this process continues from metre-sized boulders to …

The Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP). V. Interpreting ALMA maps of protoplanetary disks in terms of a dust model

T Birnstiel, CP Dullemond, Z Zhu… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP) is the largest
homogeneous high-resolution (∼ 0 farcs 035, or∼ 5 au) disk continuum imaging survey …

Dust and gas in the disk of HL Tauri: surface density, dust settling, and dust-to-gas ratio

C Pinte, WRF Dent, F Ménard, A Hales… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The recent ALMA observations of the disk surrounding HL Tau reveal a very complex dust
spatial distribution. We present a radiative transfer model accounting for the observed gaps …

The growth mechanisms of macroscopic bodies in protoplanetary disks

J Blum, G Wurm - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2008 - annualreviews.org
The formation of planetesimals, the kilometer-sized planetary precursors, is still a puzzling
process. Considerable progress has been made over the past years in the physical …

Circumstellar dust disks in Taurus-Auriga: the submillimeter perspective

SM Andrews, JP Williams - The Astrophysical Journal, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a sensitive, multiwavelength submillimeter continuum survey of 153 young
stellar objects in the Taurus-Auriga star formation region. The submillimeter detection rate is …

[BOOK][B] Astrophysics of planet formation

PJ Armitage - 2020 - books.google.com
" The study of planet formation has a long history. The idea that the Solar System formed
from a rotating disk of gas and dust-the Nebula Hypothesis-dates back to the writings of …

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 …