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Selected Publications from Our Group

2025

1.  Krijt, S., Banzatti, A., Zhang, K., Pinilla, P., Kaeufer, T., et al.\ (2025), Cosmic Cascades: How Disk Substructure Regulates the Flow of Water to Inner Planetary Systems, ApJL, 990, L72.
2. Arulanantham, N., Salyk, C., Pontoppidan, K., Banzatti, A., Zhang, K., et al.\ (2025), The JDISC Survey: Linking the Physics and Chemistry of Inner and Outer Protoplanetary Disk Zones, AJ, 170, 67.
3. Deng, D., Vioque, M., Pascucci, I., Pérez, L. M., Zhang, K., et al.\ (2025), The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO). III. Dust and Gas Disk Properties in the Lupus Star-forming Region, ApJ, 989, 3.
4. Agurto-Gangas, C., Pérez, L. M., Sierra, A., Miley, J., Zhang, K., et al.\ (2025), The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO). IV. Dust and Gas Disk Properties in the Upper Scorpius Star-forming Region, ApJ, 989, 4.
5. Trapman, L., Zhang, K., Rosotti, G. P., Pinilla, P., Tabone, B., et al.\ (2025), The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO). V. Protoplanetary Gas Disk Masses, ApJ, 989, 5.
6. Kurtovic, N. T., Gárate, M., Pinilla, P., Zhang, K., Rosotti, G. P., et al.\ (2025), The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO). VI. Comparison of Dust Evolution Models to AGE-PRO Observations, ApJ, 989, 6.
7. Miley, J. M., Pérez, L. M., Agurto-Gangas, C., Sierra, A., Trapman, L., et al.\ (2025), The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO). XII. Extreme Millimeter Variability Detected in a Class II Disk, ApJ, 989, 11.
8. Tabone, B., Rosotti, G. P., Trapman, L., Pinilla, P., Pascucci, I., et al.\ (2025), The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO). VII. Testing Accretion Mechanisms from Disk Population Synthesis, ApJ, 989, 7.
9. Anania, R., Rosotti, G. P., Gárate, M., Pinilla, P., Vioque, M., et al.\ (2025), The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO). VIII. The Impact of External Photoevaporation on Disk Masses and Radii in Upper Scorpius, ApJ, 989, 8.
10. Vioque, M., Kurtovic, N. T., Trapman, L., Sierra, A., Pérez, L. M., et al.\ (2025), The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO). X. Dust Substructures, Disk Geometries, and Dust-disk Radii, ApJ, 989, 9.
11. Zhang, K., Pérez, L. M., Pascucci, I., Pinilla, P., Cieza, L. A., et al.\ (2025), The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO). I. Program Overview and Summary of First Results, ApJ, 989, 1.
12. Ruiz-Rodriguez, D. A., González-Ruilova, C., Cieza, L. A., Zhang, K., Trapman, L., et al.\ (2025), The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO). II. Dust and Gas Disk Properties in the Ophiuchus Star-forming Region, ApJ, 989, 2.
13. Trapman, L., Vioque, M., Kurtovic, N. T., Zhang, K., Rosotti, G. P., et al.\ (2025), The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO). XI. Beam-corrected Gas Disk Sizes from Fitting <SUP>12</SUP>CO Moment Zero Maps, ApJ  989, 10.

 

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2024

 

1. Zhang, K.  (2024), Chemistry in Protoplanetary Disks, arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2404.15423.

 

 

2023

1. Trapman, L., Rosotti, G., Zhang, K., & Tabone, B.  (2023), How Large Is a Disk-What Do Protoplanetary Disk Gas Sizes Really Mean?,  ApJ, 954, 41.
2. Zhang, S., Kalscheur, M., Long, F., Zhang, K., Long, D. E., Bergin, E. A., Zhu, Z., & Trapman, L.  (2023), Substructures in Compact Disks of the Taurus Star-forming Region,  ApJ, 952, 108.

 

2022

1. Trapman, L., Tabone, B., Rosotti, G., & Zhang, K.  (2022), Effect of MHD Wind-driven Disk Evolution on the Observed Sizes of Protoplanetary Disks,  ApJ, 926, 61.
2. Trapman, L., Zhang, K., van't Hoff, M. L. R., Hogerheijde, M. R., & Bergin, E. A.  (2022), A Novel Way of Measuring the Gas Disk Mass of Protoplanetary Disks Using N2H+and C18O,  ApJL, 926, L2.

 

 

2021

MAPS program collaboration

1. Zhang, K., Booth, A. S., Law, C. J., Bosman, A. D., Schwarz, K. R., et al.  (2021), Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). V. CO Gas Distributions,  ApJS, 257, 5.
2. Alarcón, F., Bosman, A. D., Bergin, E. A., Zhang, K., Teague, R., et al.  (2021), Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). VIII. CO Gap in AS 209-Gas Depletion or Chemical Processing?,  ApJS, 257, 8.
3. Booth, A. S., Tabone, B., Ilee, J. D., Walsh, C., Aikawa, Y., et al.  (2021), Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). XVI. Characterizing the Impact of the Molecular Wind on the Evolution of the HD 163296 System,  ApJS, 257, 16.
4. Guzmán, V. V., Bergner, J. B., Law, C. J., Öberg, K. I., Walsh, C., et al.  (2021), Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). VI. Distribution of the Small Organics HCN, C2H, and H2CO,  ApJS, 257, 6.
5. Ilee, J. D., Walsh, C., Booth, A. S., Aikawa, Y., Andrews, S. M., et al.  (2021), Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). IX. Distribution and Properties of the Large Organic Molecules HC3N, CH3CN, and c-C3H2,  ApJS, 257, 9.
6. Calahan, J. K., Bergin, E. A., Zhang, K., Schwarz, K. R., Öberg, K. I., et al.  (2021), Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). XVII. Determining the 2D Thermal Structure of the HD 163296 Disk,  ApJS, 257, 17.
7. Huang, J., Bergin, E. A., Öberg, K. I., Andrews, S. M., Teague, R., et al.  (2021), Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). XIX. Spiral Arms, a Tail, and Diffuse Structures Traced by CO around the GM Aur Disk,  ApJS, 257, 19.
8. Le Gal, R., Öberg, K. I., Teague, R., Loomis, R. A., Law, C. J., et al.  (2021), Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). XII. Inferring the C/O and S/H Ratios in Protoplanetary Disks with Sulfur Molecules,  ApJS, 257, 12.
9. Aikawa, Y., Cataldi, G., Yamato, Y., Zhang, K., Booth, A. S., et al.  (2021), Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). XIII. HCO+ and Disk Ionization Structure,  ApJS, 257, 13.
10. Sierra, A., Pérez, L. M., Zhang, K., Law, C. J., Guzmán, V. V., et al.  (2021), Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). XIV. Revealing Disk Substructures in Multiwavelength Continuum Emission,  ApJS, 257, 14.
11. Law, C. J., Teague, R., Loomis, R. A., Bae, J., Öberg, K. I., et al.  (2021), Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). IV. Emission Surfaces and Vertical Distribution of Molecules,  ApJS, 257, 4.
12. Law, C. J., Loomis, R. A., Teague, R., Öberg, K. I., Czekala, I., et al.  (2021), Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). III. Characteristics of Radial Chemical Substructures,  ApJS, 257, 3.
13. Czekala, I., Loomis, R. A., Teague, R., Booth, A. S., Huang, J., et al.  (2021), Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). CLEAN Strategies for Synthesizing Images of Molecular Line Emission in Protoplanetary Disks,  ApJS, 257, 2.
14. Öberg, K. I., Guzmán, V. V., Walsh, C., Aikawa, Y., Bergin, E. A., et al.  (2021), Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). I. Program Overview and Highlights,  ApJS, 257, 1.
15. Teague, R., Bae, J., Aikawa, Y., Andrews, S. M., Bergin, E. A., et al.  (2021), Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). XVIII. Kinematic Substructures in the Disks of HD 163296 and MWC 480,  ApJS, 257, 18.
16. Cataldi, G., Yamato, Y., Aikawa, Y., Bergner, J. B., Furuya, K., et al.  (2021), Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). X. Studying Deuteration at High Angular Resolution toward Protoplanetary Disks,  ApJS, 257, 10.
17. Bosman, A. D., Alarcón, F., Bergin, E. A., Zhang, K., van't Hoff, M. L. R., et al.  (2021), Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). VII. Substellar O/H and C/H and Superstellar C/O in Planet-feeding Gas,  ApJS, 257, 7.
18. Bosman, A. D., Bergin, E. A., Loomis, R. A., Andrews, S. M., van't Hoff, M. L. R., et al.  (2021), Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). XV. Tracing Protoplanetary Disk Structure within 20 au,  ApJS, 257, 15.

 

 

2020

1. Zhang, K., Bosman, A. D., & Bergin, E. A.  (2020), Excess C/H in Protoplanetary Disk Gas from Icy Pebble Drift Across the CO Snowline,  ApJL, 891, L16.
2. Zhang, K., Schwarz, K. R., & Bergin, E. A.  (2020), Rapid Evolution of Volatile CO from the Protostellar Disk Stage to the Protoplanetary Disk Stage,  ApJL, 891, L17.
3. Long, D. E., Zhang, K., Teague, R., & Bergin, E. A.  (2020), Hints of a Population of Solar System Analog Planets from ALMA,  ApJL, 895, L46.