exoALMA

exoALMA is conducting a comprehensive planet hunting campaign in the sub-mm regime - the first to focus on still-forming planets.

The first wave of papers and data is now released! Explore the Publications page for information on the papers, or the Data page for access to the data.

By leveraging the unparalleled spatial and spectral resolution of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the exoALMA program is searching for still-forming planets embedded in their parental protoplanetary disks through their influence on the dynamics of the surround gas. To this end, exoALMA focuses on 15 sources, studying some of the deepest and most sensitive images of these planet forming nurseries taken to date. These observations are transforming our understanding of how planetary systems can form and are providing unique constraints on the planet formation process, including the mass distribution within these systems, an insight to the mechanisms which concentrate grains into the well studied rings and a characterization of the 3D velocity structures of these disks.