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New Insights into the T Tauri Binary Separation Distribution
Caleb Eastlund, Maxwell Moe, Kaitlin M. Kratter, Marina Kounkel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07938

New Insights into the T Tauri Binary Separation Distribution
For three decades, adaptive optic surveys have revealed an excess of T Tauri binaries across a = 10-100 au in nearby star-forming regions compared to the field population of main-sequence (MS) stars. Such an excess requires that most stars are born in dense clusters and subjected to significant dynamical processing that disrupts such binaries across intermediate separations. However, we demonstrate that the apparent excess is due to an observational selection bias. Close binaries within a < 100…

HD 143006: Interferometric Confirmation of Misaligned Protoplanetary Disc with CHARA/MIRCX and VLTI/PIONIER
I. Codron, S. Kraus, J. D. Monnier, S. Marino, C. L. Davies, N. Anugu, T. Gardner, N. Ibrahim, C. Lanthermann, J-B Le Bouquin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19668

HD 143006: Interferometric Confirmation of Misaligned Protoplanetary Disc with CHARA/MIRCX and VLTI/PIONIER
The outer regions of the protoplanetary disc surrounding the T Tauri star HD 143006 show rings, dust asymmetries and shadows. Whilst rings and dust asymmetries can arise from companions and other mechanisms, shadows and misaligned discs in particular are typically attributed to the presence of misaligned planets or stellar-mass companions. To understand the mechanisms that drive these traits, the innermost regions of discs need to be studied. Using CHARA/MIRCX and VLTI/PIONIER, we observed the …

High resolution radio observations of the Chamaeleon star-forming region
Ernesto Garc\'ia Valencia, Laurent Loinard, Arnaud Belloche, Gisela N. Ortiz Le\'on, Sergio A. Dzib, Cherie K. Day, Roopesh Ojha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15927

High resolution radio observations of the Chamaeleon star-forming region
We report on large-scale radio observations of the Chamaeleon star-forming region obtained with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) that led to the definite detection of five young stars and the tentative detection of five more. As in other regions surveyed in the radio domain, the majority of detected sources are fairly evolved low-mass T Tauri stars, but we also detect one protostellar object (Ced 110 IRS4) and one Herbig Ae/Be star. With the exception of the protostellar source, the…

Grand Design Spiral Arms in the Compact, Embedded Protoplanetary Disk of Haro 6-13
Jane Huang, Masataka Aizawa, Jaehan Bae, Sean M. Andrews, Myriam Benisty, Edwin A. Bergin, Stefano Facchini, Christian Ginski, Michael K\"uffmeier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06433

Grand Design Spiral Arms in the Compact, Embedded Protoplanetary Disk of Haro 6-13
Millimeter continuum spiral arms have so far only been detected in a handful of protoplanetary disks, and thus we have a limited understanding of the circumstances in which they can form. In particular, substructures in small disks ($R\lessapprox 50$ au) have not been well-characterized in comparison with large disks. We present ALMA 1.3 mm continuum observations of the disk around the T Tauri star Haro 6-13 at a resolution of $\sim0.04''$ ($\sim5$ au). A pair of low-contrast spiral arms are de…

ABYSS III: Observing accretion activity in young stars through empirical veiling measurements
Serat Saad, Marina Kounkel, Keivan G. Stassun, A. Roman-Lopes, Carlos G. Rom\'an-Z\'u\~niga, Jinyoung Serena Kim, Jonathan C. Tan, R. Lopez-Valdivia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09826

ABYSS III: Observing accretion activity in young stars through empirical veiling measurements
Stellar accretion plays an important role in the early stages of stellar evolution, particularly in Classical T Tauri Stars (CTTSs). Accretion of a CTTS can be related to different physical parameters such as effective temperature (T$_{\text{eff}}$), age, abundance of hydrogen, etc. We can infer how accretion works by examining it across different wavelength regions. Accretion can be traced using veiling, a parameter that measures how excess emission from accretion affects the photospheric spec…