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Overview

Sean M. Andrews is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. The primary field of research is Physics and Astronomy, with a particular focus on subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Spectroscopy, Atmospheric Science, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Instrumentation.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics including Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astro and Planetary Science, Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations.

Recent publications reflect a strong emphasis on molecular and planetary disk studies as well as multiwavelength analyses.

  • "Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). IV. Emission Surfaces and Vertical Distribution of Molecules" (2021), published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • "Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS) II: CLEAN Strategies for Synthesizing Images of Molecular Line Emission in Protoplanetary Disks" (2021), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS) III: Characteristics of Radial Chemical Substructures" (2021), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Multiwavelength analysis for interferometric (sub-)mm observations of protoplanetary disks: Radial constraints on the dust properties and the disk structure" (2024), published in Apollo (University of Cambridge)
  • "A triple-star system with a misaligned and warped circumstellar disk shaped by disk tearing" (2020), published in Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sean M. Andrews include:

  • David J. Wilner
  • Jane Huang
  • Richard Teague
  • Jaehan Bae
  • Karin I. Öberg

Sean M. Andrews has regularly published in several key venues demonstrating a focus on astrophysical research:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Circumstellar Dust Disks in Taurus-Auriga: The Submillimeter Perspective

    Sean M. Andrews;Jonathan P. Williams

  • The Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP). I. Motivation, Sample, Calibration, and Overview

    Sean M. Andrews;Jane Huang;Laura M. Pérez;Andrea Isella

  • The Mass Dependence between Protoplanetary Disks and their Stellar Hosts

    Sean M. Andrews;Katherine A. Rosenfeld;Adam L. Kraus;David J. Wilner

  • PROTOPLANETARY DISK STRUCTURES IN OPHIUCHUS

    Sean M. Andrews;D. J. Wilner;A. M. Hughes;Chunhua Qi

  • Resolved Images of Large Cavities in Protoplanetary Transition Disks

    Sean M. Andrews;David J. Wilner;Catherine Espaillat;A. M. Hughes

  • RINGED SUBSTRUCTURE AND A GAP AT 1 AU IN THE NEAREST PROTOPLANETARY DISK

    Sean M. Andrews;David J. Wilner;Zhaohuan Zhu;Tilman Birnstiel

  • A Submillimeter View of Circumstellar Dust Disks in $ ho$ Ophiuchus

    Sean M. Andrews;Jonathan P. Williams

  • High-Resolution Submillimeter Constraints on Circumstellar Disk Structure

    Sean M. Andrews;Jonathan P. Williams

  • The TW Hya Disk at 870 microns: Comparison of CO and Dust Radial Structures

    Sean M. Andrews;David J. Wilner;A. M. Hughes;Chunhua Qi

  • The Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP). II. Characteristics of Annular Substructures

    Jane Huang;Sean M. Andrews;Cornelis P. Dullemond;Andrea Isella

  • Protoplanetary Disk Structures in Ophiuchus. II. Extension to Fainter Sources

    Sean M. Andrews;D. J. Wilner;A. M. Hughes;Chunhua Qi

  • An old disk still capable of forming a planetary system

    Edwin A. Bergin;L. Ilsedore Cleeves;Uma Gorti;Uma Gorti;Ke Zhang

  • Spiral Arms in the Asymmetrically Illuminated Disk of MWC 758 and Constraints on Giant Planets

    C. A. Grady;T. Muto;J. Hashimoto;M. Fukagawa

  • A Submillimeter View of Circumstellar Dust Disks in ρ Ophiuchi

    Sean M. Andrews;Sean M. Andrews;Jonathan P. Williams

  • The Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP). VII. The Planet–Disk Interactions Interpretation

    Shangjia Zhang;Zhaohuan Zhu;Jane Huang;Viviana V. Guzmán

  • THE TW Hya DISK AT 870 μm: COMPARISON OF CO AND DUST RADIAL STRUCTURES

    Sean M. Andrews;David J. Wilner;A. M. Hughes;Chunhua Qi

  • Spiral density waves in a young protoplanetary disk

    Laura M. Pérez;John M. Carpenter;Sean M. Andrews;Luca Ricci

  • Imaging of the CO Snow Line in a Solar Nebula Analog

    Chunhua Qi;Karin I. Öberg;David J. Wilner;Paola D’Alessio

  • The Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP). VI. Dust Trapping in Thin-ringed Protoplanetary Disks

    Cornelis P. Dullemond;Tilman Birnstiel;Jane Huang;Nicolás T. Kurtovic

  • Observations of Protoplanetary Disk Structures

    Sean M. Andrews

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Wilner
David J. Wilner Harvard University
Karin I. Öberg
Karin I. Öberg Smithsonian Institution
Andrea Isella
Andrea Isella Rice University
Chunhua Qi
Chunhua Qi Harvard University
Cornelis P. Dullemond
Cornelis P. Dullemond Heidelberg University
John M. Carpenter
John M. Carpenter California Institute of Technology
Ilaria Pascucci
Ilaria Pascucci University of Arizona
Eugene Chiang
Eugene Chiang University of California, Berkeley
Leonardo Testi
Leonardo Testi University of Bologna
Edwin A. Bergin
Edwin A. Bergin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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