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How To Know If It's Aliens

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Claims of alien life keep flashing across astronomy and space science—then fade under scrutiny. The central pattern is consistent: early...

Mars Viking Labeled ReleasePerchlorate ChemistryVenus Phosphine ALMA

Venus May Have Life!

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Venus may be harboring life in its clouds, after astronomers detected phosphine (PH3) in Venus’s upper atmosphere—an atmospheric chemical that is...

Venus HabitabilityPhosphine BiosignatureALMA Observations

The Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System!

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Fomalhaut—an A-type star about 25 light-years away—appears to be hosting a long-lived, sharply edged ring of ice and dust, and the system may be in...

Fomalhaut RingPlanet FormationProtoplanetary Disk

exoALMA. III. Line-intensity Modeling and System Property Extraction from Protoplanetary Disks

The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2025 · 32 citations · 6 min read

This paper addresses a practical but scientifically central question in protoplanetary disk spectroscopy: how can we reliably extract the physical...

PaperProtoplanetary disksALMA molecular line spectroscopyRadiative transfer and line formation (effective modeling)

exoALMA. XII. Weighing and Sizing exoALMA Disks with Rotation Curve Modelling

The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2025 · 30 citations · 6 min read

This paper addresses a central problem in protoplanetary disk physics: how to measure fundamental disk properties—stellar mass, gas (disk) mass, and...

PaperProtoplanetary disk kinematicsDisk self-gravity and rotation curvesThermal stratification in disks

exoALMA. II. Data Calibration and Imaging Pipeline

The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2025 · 29 citations · 8 min read

This paper, “exoALMA. II. Data Calibration and Imaging Pipeline” (Loomis et al. 2025), addresses a practical but scientifically central question: how...

PaperRadio interferometryALMA data calibrationSelf-calibration and phase decoherence

exoALMA. VI. Rotating under Pressure: Rotation Curves, Azimuthal Velocity Substructures, and Gas Pressure Variations

The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2025 · 23 citations · 5 min read

This paper asks whether small-scale deviations from Keplerian rotation in protoplanetary disks—measured with ALMA at high angular and spectral...

PaperProtoplanetary disksPlanet formationDisk kinematics