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Ruobing Dong's Group

ALMA observations of 13CO molecular emission reveal vast spiral arms and global velocity perturbations in the AB Aurigae Protoplanetary disk. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NSF NRAO), VLT/SPHERE (ESO), Speedie et al.

Selected Media Exposures

Observational Discoveries

Speedie et al. (2025)

AAS NOVA: A Late-Stage Infall Renovation: Mapping the Circumstellar Disk of AB Aurigae

Dong et al. (2022)

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Press Release (ALMA / NRAO / ESO / NAOJ): ALMA catches “intruder” redhanded in rarely detected stellar flyby event

Dong et al. (2018)

Press Release (ALMA / NRAO / ESO / NAOJ): ALMA Discover Exciting Structures in a Young Protoplanetary Disk That Support Planet Formation

Speedie et al. (2024)

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Press Release (ALMA / NRAO / ESO / NAOJ): ALMA Detects Hallmark “Wiggle” of Gravitational Instability in a Disk

New York Times report on this work.

Bi et al. (2020)

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Press Release (ALMA / NRAO / ESO / NAOJ): ALMA Discovers Misaligned Rings in Planet-Forming Disk Around Triple Stars

AAS NOVA: Seeing Things in Threes

Hashimoto et al. (2012)

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Press Release (Subaru Observatory): Discovery of a Giant Gap in the Disk of a Sun-like Star May Indicate Multiple Planets

Mullin et al. (2024)

Press Release (UVic): James Webb Space Telescope takes its first images of forming planetary systems

van der Marel et al. (2019)

AAS NOVA: What We Don’t Know About Protoplanetary Disks?

Theory + Machine Learning Work

Huang et al. (2025)

AAS NOVA: A Late-Stage Infall Renovation: Mapping the Circumstellar Disk of AB Aurigae

Bi, Lin & Dong (2021)

AAS NOVA: Do Planets Make Only Puffy Gaps?

Dong & Fung (2017)

AAS NOVA: Simulating Planetary Gaps

Mao et al. (2023)

AAS NOVA: Spotlight on Machine Learning in Astrophysics

Dong, Li, Chiang & Li (2018)

AAS NOVA: Filling (Dust) Gaps in our Knowledge of Planet Formation

Fung & Dong (2015)

AAS NOVA: Planet Masses from Disk Spirals

Muley & Dong (2022)

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AAS NOVA: A Young Star’s Disk Dilemma

Dong, Li, Chiang & Li (2017)

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Press Release (U of Arizona): UA Astronomers Track the Birth of a 'Super-Earth'

Dong et al. (2015)

Press Release (NASA): Spirals in Dust Around Young Stars May Betray Presence of Massive Planets

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