The Astrophysical Journal (Jan 2025)
The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO). I. Program Overview and Summary of First Results
- Ke Zhang,
- Laura M. Pérez,
- Ilaria Pascucci,
- Paola Pinilla,
- Lucas A. Cieza,
- John Carpenter,
- Leon Trapman,
- Dingshan Deng,
- Carolina Agurto-Gangas,
- Anibal Sierra,
- Nicolás T. Kurtovic,
- Dary A. Ruiz-Rodriguez,
- Miguel Vioque,
- James Miley,
- Benoît Tabone,
- Camilo González-Ruilova,
- Rossella Anania,
- Giovanni P. Rosotti,
- Estephani TorresVillanueva,
- Michiel R. Hogerheijde,
- Kamber Schwarz,
- Aleksandra Kuznetsova
Affiliations
- Ke Zhang
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison , 475 North Charter Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA ; [email protected]
- Laura M. Pérez
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- Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile , Camino El Observatorio 1515, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
- Ilaria Pascucci
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- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, The University of Arizona , Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- Paola Pinilla
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- Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London , Holmbury Saint Mary, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6NT, UK
- Lucas A. Cieza
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- Instituto de Estudios Astrofísicos, Universidad Diego Portales , Avenida Ejercito 441, Santiago, Chile
- John Carpenter
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- Joint ALMA Observatory , Avenida Alonso de Córdova 3107, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile
- Leon Trapman
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison , 475 North Charter Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA ; [email protected]
- Dingshan Deng
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- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, The University of Arizona , Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- Carolina Agurto-Gangas
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- Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile , Camino El Observatorio 1515, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
- Anibal Sierra
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- Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile , Camino El Observatorio 1515, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile; Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London , Holmbury Saint Mary, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6NT, UK
- Nicolás T. Kurtovic
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- Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics , Giessenbachstraße 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany; Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie (MPIA) , Konigstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
- Dary A. Ruiz-Rodriguez
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- National Radio Astronomy Observatory , 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
- Miguel Vioque
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- European Southern Observatory , Karl-Schwarzschild-Straße 2, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany; Joint ALMA Observatory , Alonso de Córdova 3107, Vitacura, Santiago 763-0355, Chile
- James Miley
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- Departamento de Física, Universidad de Santiago de Chile , Avenida Victor Jara 3659, Santiago, Chile; Millennium Nucleus on Young Exoplanets and their Moons (YEMS) , Chile; Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Astrophysics and Space Exploration (CIRAS), Universidad de Santiago de Chile , Chile
- Benoît Tabone
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale , 91405 Orsay, France
- Camilo González-Ruilova
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- Instituto de Estudios Astrofísicos, Universidad Diego Portales , Avenida Ejercito 441, Santiago, Chile; Millennium Nucleus on Young Exoplanets and their Moons (YEMS) , Chile; Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Astrophysics and Space Exploration (CIRAS), Universidad de Santiago de Chile , Chile
- Rossella Anania
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano , Via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milano, Italy
- Giovanni P. Rosotti
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano , Via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milano, Italy
- Estephani TorresVillanueva
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison , 475 North Charter Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA ; [email protected]
- Michiel R. Hogerheijde
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- Leiden Observatory, Leiden University , P.O. Box 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands; Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam , The Netherlands
- Kamber Schwarz
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- Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie (MPIA) , Konigstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
- Aleksandra Kuznetsova
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- Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute , 162 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10025, USA
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/addebe
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 989,
no. 1
p. 1
Abstract
We present the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO), a large program of the ALMA. AGE-PRO aims to systematically trace the evolution of gas disk mass and size throughout the lifetime of protoplanetary disks. It uses a carefully selected sample of 30 disks around M3-K6 stars in three nearby star-forming regions: Ophiuchus (0.5–1 Myr), Lupus (1–3 Myr), and Upper Sco (2–6 Myr). Assuming the three regions had similar initial conditions and evolutionary paths, we find the median gas disk mass appears to decrease with age. Ophiuchus disks have the highest median gas mass (6 M _Jup ), while the Lupus and Upper Sco disks have significantly lower median masses (0.68 and 0.44 M _Jup , respectively). Notably, the gas and dust disk masses appear to evolve on different timescales. This is evidenced by the median gas-to-dust mass ratio, which decreases from 122 in the youngest disks (1 Myr disks by an order of magnitude. Here, we discuss the program’s motivation, survey design, sample selection, observation and data calibration processes, and highlight the initial results.
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