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Laboratory Investigation of CO2-Driven Enhancement of Radiolytic H2O2 on Europa and Other Icy Moons
Bereket D. Mamo, Ujjwal Raut, Ben D. Teolis, Trevor P. Erwin, Richard J. Cartwright, Silvia Protopapa, Kurt D. Retherford, Tom A. Nordheim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15819

Laboratory Investigation of CO2-Driven Enhancement of Radiolytic H2O2 on Europa and Other Icy Moons
Observations of Europa's leading hemisphere reveal elevated H2O2 in the warmer, low latitude chaos terrains compared to the colder, polar regions. This distribution disagrees with prior laboratory radiolysis studies of pure water ice, which show higher H2O2 yields at colder temperatures. The regions with higher peroxide abundance, Tara and Powys Regiones, also present increased amounts of CO2, possibly sourced from Europa's interior. To investigate whether CO2 influences radiolysis of water ice…

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The feeling when you find the root cause for a problem that has been bothering you for months. And it turns out to be fixable by adding a single letter. (To turn an "unsigned long" literal into an "unsigned long long" one.) (Actually I made it use the UINT64_C() macro from <cstdint>.)
Writing portable code is hard. And thanks, Windows, for keeping "long" as 32 bits even in 64-bit code.
Now, if only Clang or gcc on Linux would warn about such po…

Stumbled across my old NeXT "floptical" disc while looking through old boxes at the office! I've been wondering where this had gone for a few decades now: I have archives of most of my files from 1992 (when we founded Omni) through the present, but this was where I had archived my active files for several of the years prior.
Now to see if any of our NeXT cubes still has a working magneto-optical drive that can read this data…

Chemical transformation of CO in evolving protoplanetary discs across stellar masses: a route to C-rich inner regions
Andrew D. Sellek, Ewine F. van Dishoeck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11631

Chemical transformation of CO in evolving protoplanetary discs across stellar masses: a route to C-rich inner regions
Protoplanetary discs around Very Low Mass Stars (VLMS) show hydrocarbon-rich MIR spectra indicative of C/O>1 in their inner discs, in contrast to discs around higher-mass hosts which mostly show O-bearing species. One scenario proposed to elevate C/O in VLMS inner discs is the advection of O-depleted gas from the outer disc. However, if CO gas remains abundant, C/O can be at most ~1. We test if chemical transformation of CO into other species allows this transport scenario to produce C/O signif…

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The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): XI. Beam-corrected gas disk sizes from fitting 12CO moment zero maps
Leon Trapman, Miguel Vioque, Nicol\'as T. Kurtovic, Ke Zhang, Giovanni P. Rosotti, Paola Pinilla, John Carpenter, Lucas A. Cieza, Ilaria Pascucci, Rossella Anania, Carolina Agurto-Gangas, Dingshan Deng, James Miley, Laura M. P\'erez, Anibal Sierra, Beno\^it Tabone, Dary A. Ru\'iz-Rodr\'iguez, Camilo Gonz\'alez-Ruilova, Estephani To…

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): XI. Beam-corrected gas disk sizes from fitting 12CO moment zero maps
The inward drift of mm-cm sized pebbles in protoplanetary disks has become an important part of our current theories of planet formation and, more recently, planet composition as well. The gas-to-dust size ratio of protoplanetary disks can provide an important constraint on how pebbles have drifted inward provided that observational effects, especially resolution, can be accounted for. Here we present a method for fitting beam-convolved models to integrated intensity maps of line emission using…

exoALMA. XVIII. Interpreting large scale kinematic structures as moderate warping
Andrew J. Winter, Myriam Benisty, Andr\'es F. Izquierdo, Giuseppe Lodato, Richard Teague, Carolin N. Kimmig, Sean M. Andrews, Jaehan Bae, Marcelo Barraza-Alfaro, Nicol\'as Cuello, Pietro Curone, Ian Czekala, Stefano Facchini, Daniele Fasano, Cassandra Hall, Caitlyn Hardiman, Thomas Hilder, John D. Ilee, Misato Fukagawa, Cristiano Longarini, Fran\c{c}ois M\'enard, Ryuta Orihara, Christophe Pint…

exoALMA. XVIII. Interpreting large scale kinematic structures as moderate warping
The exoALMA program gave an unprecedented view of the complex kinematics of protoplanetary disks, revealing diverse structures that remain poorly understood. We show that moderate disk warps ($\sim 0.5-2^\circ$) can naturally explain many of the observed large-scale velocity features with azimuthal wavenumber $m = 1$. Using a simple model, we interpret line-of-sight velocity variations as changes in the projected Keplerian rotation caused by warping of the disk. While not a unique explanation, …

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): IV. Dust and Gas Disk Properties in the Upper Scorpius Star-forming Region
Carolina Agurto-Gangas, L. M. P\'erez, Anibal Sierra, James Miley, Ke Zhang, Ilaria Pascucci, Paola Pinilla, Dingshan Deng, John Carpenter, Leon Trapman, Miguel Vioque, Giovanni P. Rosotti, Nicol\'as Kurtovic, Lucas A. Cieza, Kamber Schwarz, Michiel R. Hogerheijde, Rossella Anania, Beno\^it Tabone, Estephani E. Torres-Villanueva, Dary A.…

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): IV. Dust and Gas Disk Properties in the Upper Scorpius Star-forming Region
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) large program AGE-PRO explores protoplanetary disk evolution by studying gas and dust across various ages. This work focuses on ten evolved disks in Upper Scorpius, observed in dust continuum emission, CO and its isotopologues, and N$_2$H$^+$ with ALMA Bands 6 and 7. Disk radii, from the radial location enclosing 68% of the flux, are comparable to those in the younger Lupus region for both gas and dust tracers. However, solid masses are ab…

Primordial planet spin driven by boundary layer effects in a decretion disc
Rebecca G. Martin, Stephen H. Lubow, David Vallet, Madeline Overton, Stephen Lepp, Zhaohuan Zhu, Shunquan Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09273

Primordial planet spin driven by boundary layer effects in a decretion disc
Accretion of material from a protoplanetary disc on to a forming giant planet can spin the planet up to close to its breakup rate, $Ω_{\rm b}=(G M_{\rm p}/R_{\rm p}^3)$, where $M_{\rm p}$ is the mass and $R_{\rm p}$ is the radius of the planet. After the protoplanetary disc dissipates, the rapidly rotating planet may eject a decretion (outflowing) disc in a similar way to a Be star. Boundary layer effects in a hydrodynamic disc allow for decretion disc formation at spin rates below the breakup…