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Agnes Kóspál

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A faint dust ring beyond the compact disk of Sz 76

We report new ALMA Band 7 high-resolution ($\sim$0.05$^{''}$) continuum and $^{12}\text{CO}\ (J=3\text{--}2)$ observations of the disk around the young low-mass star Sz 76. Visibility-plane modeling reveals a previously undetected, faint outer dust ring centered at $\sim$45 au surrounding the compact central disk. Including this low-surface-brightness feature increases the characteristic dust radius from $R_{\text{dust,68}} \approx 7$ au to $41$ au. Combined with an outer gas extent of $R_{\text{CO,68}} \approx 77$ au, the resulting gas-to-dust size ratio decreases from an extreme value of $\sim$11 to $\sim$2, placing Sz 76 in line with typical protoplanetary disks and contradicting a scenario of unimpeded inward radial drift. These results demonstrate that spatial filtering or limited surface-brightness sensitivity can severely underestimate disk sizes, highlighting the necessity of multi-scale observations to properly identify dust traps and accurately constrain disk evolution.

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The debris disc of HD 131488 -- Bringing together thermal emission and scattered light

We show the first SPHERE/IRDIS and IFS data of the CO-rich debris disc around HD 131488. We use N-body simulations to model both the scattered light images and the SED of the disc in a self-consistent way. We apply the Henyey-Greenstein approximation, Mie theory, and the Discrete Dipole Approximation to model the emission of individual dust grains. Our study shows that only when gas drag is taken into account can we find a model that is consistent with scattered light as well as thermal emission data of the disc. The models suggest a gas surface density of $2\times10^{-5}\,M_\oplus/$au$^2$ which is in agreement with estimates from ALMA observations. Thus, our modelling procedure allows us to roughly constrain the expected amount of gas in a debris disc without actual gas measurements. We also show that the shallow size distribution of the dust leads to a significant contribution of large particles to the overall amount of scattered light. The scattering phase function indicates a dust porosity of $\sim0.2\ldots 0.6$ which is in agreement with a pebble pile scenario for planetesimal growth.

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