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写真a

 
CHOI Insa
 
Organization
Research Field in Science, Science and Engineering Area Graduate School of Science and Engineering (Science) Department of Science Physics and Astronomy Program Assistant Professor
Title
Assistant Professor
Degree
PhD (2021.11 The University of Tokyo)
MS (2018.3 The University of Tokyo)
BS (2016.3 Kobe University)
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Research Interests

  • Star Formation

  • Radio Astronomy

  • Planet Formation

Research Areas

Astronomy, Astronomy

Professional Memberships

 

Papers

  • Jinshi Sai, Shigehisa Takakuwa, Hsi-Wei Yen, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Yuya Fukuhara .  Nonthermal Velocity Dispersion in the Outer Disk of HL Tau .  The Astrophysical Journal   2026.10

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  • Masayuki Yamaguchi, Masahiro N. Machida, Ryosuke T. Tominaga, Jinshi Sai, Takayuki Muto, Michihiro Takami, Hauyu Baobab Liu, Ayumu Shoshi, Takashi Tsukagoshi, Shu Ishibashi .  A Hybrid Origin for the Multiple Ring-gap Structures in the Large Protoplanetary Disk V1094 Sco: A Low-mass Planet and Secular Gravitational Instability .  The Astrophysical Journal   2026.8

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  • Jinshi Sai; Eduard I. Vorobyov; Alexandr Skliarevskii; Michihiro Takami .  Morphological and Kinematic Diagnostic of FU Orionis-type Outburst Mechanisms .  The Astrophysical Journal995 ( 1 ) 129   2025.12Reviewed International coauthorship

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  • Ilseung Han; Woojin Kwon; Yusuke Aso; Nagayoshi Ohashi; John J. Tobin; Jes K. Jørgensen; Shigehisa Takakuwa; Leslie W. Looney; Yuri Aikawa; Christian Flores; Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo; Patrick M. Koch; Chang Won Lee; Jeong-Eun Lee; Zhi-Yun Li; Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin; Jinshi Sai; Travis J. Thieme; Jonathan P. Williams; Sacha Gavino; Miyu Kido; Shih-Ping Lai; Nguyen Thi Phuong; Alejandro Santamaría-Miranda; Hsi-Wei Yen .  Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). XVII. A Compact but Structured Keplerian Disk and Large-scale Streamers Revealed in the Class I Protostellar System IRAS 04169+2702 .  The Astrophysical Journal993 ( 1 ) 120   2025.11Reviewed International coauthorship

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    DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ade684

  • Nguyen Thi Phuong; Chang Won Lee; John J. Tobin; Nagayoshi Ohashi; Jes K. Jørgensen; Shigehisa Takakuwa; Yuri Aikawa; Yusuke Aso; Zhi-Yun Li; Patrick M. Koch; Jonathan P. Williams; Sacha Gavino; Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin; Kengo Tomida; Woojin Kwon; Leslie W. Looney; Ilseung Han; Alejandro Santamaría-Miranda; Shih-Ping Lai; Hsi-Wei Yen; Travis J. Thieme; Jinshi Sai; Christian Flores .  Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). XXII. Keplerian Disk, Disk Structures, and Jets/Outflows in the Class 0 Protostar IRAS 04166+2706 .  The Astrophysical Journal992 ( 1 ) 18   2025.10Reviewed International coauthorship

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  • Miyu Kido; Hsi-Wei Yen; Jinshi Sai; Shigehisa Takakuwa; Nagayoshi Ohashi; Yuri Aikawa; Yusuke Aso; Christian Flores; Ilseung Han; Patrick M. Koch; Woojin Kwon; Jeong-Eun Lee; Zhi-Yun Li; Leslie W. Looney; Mayank Narang; Kazuya Saigo; Rajeeb Sharma; Travis J. Thieme; Kengo Tomida; Jonathan P. Williams .  Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). XXI. Limited Role of Streamers in Mass Supply to the Disk in the Class 0 Protostar IRAS 16544-1604 .  The Astrophysical Journal985 ( 2 ) 166   2025.6Reviewed International coauthorship

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  • Alejandro Santamaría-Miranda; Pietro Curone; Laura Pérez; Nicolas T. Kurtovic; Carolina Agurto-Gangas; Anibal Sierra; Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo; Nuria Huélamo; James M. Miley; Aina Palau; Paola Pinilla; Isabel Rebollido; Álvaro Ribas; Pablo Rivière-Marichalar; Matthias R. Schreiber; Jinshi Sai; Benjamín Carrera .  Hints of Disk Substructure in the First Brown Dwarf with a Dynamical Mass Constraint .  The Astrophysical Journal Letters986 ( 1 ) L11   2025.6Reviewed International coauthorship

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    <jats:p>We present high-resolution Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations at 0.89 mm of the Class II brown dwarf 2MASS J04442713+2512164 (2M0444), achieving a spatial resolution of 0<jats:inline-formula>
    <jats:tex-math>

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    </jats:inline-formula>046 (∼6.4 au at the distance to the source). These observations targeted continuum emission together with <jats:sup>12</jats:sup>CO (3–2) molecular line. The line emission traces a Keplerian disk, allowing us to derive a dynamical mass between 0.043 and 0.092 <jats:italic>M</jats:italic>
    <jats:sub>⊙</jats:sub> for the central object. We constrain the gas-to-dust disk size ratio to be ∼7, consistent with efficient radial drift. However, the observed dust emission suggests that a dust trap is present, enough to retain some dust particles. We perform visibility fitting of the continuum emission, and under the assumption of annular substructure, our best fit shows a gap and a ring at 98.1<jats:inline-formula>
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    <mml:mn>8.4</mml:mn>
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    <mml:mn>4.2</mml:mn>
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    </jats:inline-formula> mas (∼14 au) and 116.0<jats:inline-formula>
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    <mml:mn>4.2</mml:mn>
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    </jats:inline-formula> mas (∼16 au), respectively, with a gap width of 20 mas (∼3 au). To ensure robustness, the data were analyzed through a variety of methods in both the image and <jats:monospace>uv</jats:monospace> planes, employing multiple codes and approaches. This tentative disk structure could be linked to a possible planetary companion in the process of formation. These results provide the first dynamical mass of the lowest mass object to date, together with the possible direct detection of a substructure, offering new insights into disk dynamics and planet formation in the very low-mass regime. Future higher spatial resolution ALMA observations will be essential to confirm these findings and further investigate the link between substructures and planet formation in brown dwarf disks.</jats:p>

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  • Mayank Narang; Nagayoshi Ohashi; John J. Tobin; M. K. McClure; Jes K. Jørgensen; Jinshi Sai (Insa Choi); eDisk + IceAge Team .  An Embedded Disk (eDisk) in the IceAge: Investigating the Jet and Outflow from Ced 110 IRS4 .  The Astronomical Journal169 ( 4 ) 192   2025.4Reviewed International coauthorship

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  • Han, Ilseung, Kwon, Woojin, Aso, Yusuke, Ohashi, Nagayoshi, Tobin, John J., Jørgensen, Jes K., Takakuwa, Shigehisa, Looney, Leslie W., Aikawa, Yuri, Flores, Christian, de Gregorio-Monsalvo, Itziar, Koch, Patrick M., Lee, Chang Won, Lee, Jeong-Eun, Li, Zhi-Yun, Lin, Zhe-Yu Daniel, Sai, Jinshi, Thieme, Travis J., Williams, Jonathan P., Gavino, Sacha, Kido, Miyu, Lai, Shih-Ping, Phuong, Nguyen Thi, Santamaría-Miranda, Alejandro, Yen, Hsi-Wei .  Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) XVII: A Compact but Structured Keplerian Disk and Large-scale Streamers Revealed in the Class I Protostellar System IRAS 04169+2702 .  The Astronomical Journalin press   2025Reviewed

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  • Phuong, Nguyen Thi, Lee, Chang Won, Tobin, John J., Ohashi, Nagayoshi, Jørgensen, Jes K., Takakuwa, Shigehisa, Aikawa, Yuri, Aso, Yusuke, Li, Zhi-Yun, Koch, Patrick M., Williams, Jonathan P., Gavino, Sacha, Lin, Zhe-Yu Daniel, Tomida, Kengo, Kwon, Woojin, Looney, Leslie W., Han, Ilseung, Santamarıa-Miranda, Alejandro, Lai, Shih-Ping, Hsi-Wei, Yen, Thieme, Travis J., Sai, Jinshi, Flores, Christian .  Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) XXII: Keplerian disk, disk structures and jets/outflows in the Class 0 protostar IRAS 04166+2706 .  The Astronomical Journalin press   2025Reviewed

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  • Sacha Gavino; Jes K. Jørgensen; Rajeeb Sharma; Yao-Lun Yang; Zhi-Yun Li; John J. Tobin; Nagayoshi Ohashi; Shigehisa Takakuwa; Adele L. Plunkett; Woojin Kwon; Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo; Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin; Alejandro Santamaría-Miranda; Yusuke Aso; Jinshi Sai; Yuri Aikawa; Kengo Tomida; Patrick M. Koch; Jeong-Eun Lee; Chang Won Lee; Shih-Ping Lai; Leslie W. Looney; Suchitra Narayanan; Nguyen Thi Phuong; Travis J. Thieme; Merel L. R. van't Hoff; Jonathan P. Williams; Hsi-Wei Yen .  Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks. XI. A High-resolution View Toward the BHR 71 Class 0 Protostellar Wide Binary .  The Astrophysical Journal974 ( 1 ) 21   2024.10Reviewed International coauthorship

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    <jats:p>We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of the binary Class 0 protostellar system BHR 71 IRS1 and IRS2 as part of the Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) ALMA Large Program. We describe the <jats:sup>12</jats:sup>CO (<jats:italic>J</jats:italic> = 2–1), <jats:sup>13</jats:sup>CO (<jats:italic>J</jats:italic> = 2–1), C<jats:sup>18</jats:sup>O (<jats:italic>J</jats:italic> = 2–1), H<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>CO (<jats:italic>J</jats:italic> = 3<jats:sub>2,1</jats:sub>–2<jats:sub>2,0</jats:sub>), and SiO (<jats:italic>J</jats:italic> = 5–4) molecular lines along with the 1.3 mm continuum at high spatial resolution (∼0.″08 or ∼5 au). Dust continuum emission is detected toward BHR 71 IRS1 and IRS2, with a central compact component and extended continuum emission. The compact components are smooth and show no sign of substructures such as spirals, rings, or gaps. However, there is a brightness asymmetry along the minor axis of the presumed disk in IRS1, possibly indicative of an inclined geometrically and optically thick disk-like component. Using a position–velocity diagram analysis of the C<jats:sup>18</jats:sup>O line, clear Keplerian motions were not detected toward either source. If Keplerian rotationally supported disks are present, they are likely deeply embedded in their envelope. However, we can set upper limits of the central protostellar mass of 0.46 <jats:italic>M</jats:italic>
    <jats:sub>⊙</jats:sub> and 0.26 <jats:italic>M</jats:italic>
    <jats:sub>⊙</jats:sub> for BHR 71 IRS1 and BHR 71 IRS2, respectively. Outflows traced by <jats:sup>12</jats:sup>CO and SiO are detected in both sources. The outflows can be divided into two components, a wide-angle outflow and a jet. In IRS1, the jet exhibits a double helical structure, reflecting the removal of angular momentum from the system. In IRS2, the jet is very collimated and shows a chain of knots, suggesting episodic accretion events.</jats:p>

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  • Alejandro Santamaría-Miranda; Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo; Nagayoshi Ohashi; John J. Tobin; Jinshi Sai; Jes K. Jørgensen; Yusuke Aso; Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin; Christian Flores; Miyu Kido; Patrick M. Koch; Woojin Kwon; Chang Won Lee; Zhi-Yun Li; Leslie W. Looney; Adele L. Plunkett; Shigehisa Takakuwa; Merel L. R van't Hoff; Jonathan P. Williams; Hsi-Wei Yen .  Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk): XVI. Asymmetric dust disk driving a multicomponent molecular outflow in the young Class 0 protostar GSS30 IRS3 .  Astronomy & Astrophysics690   A46   2024.10Reviewed International coauthorship

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  • Hsi-Wei Yen; Jonathan P. Williams; Jinshi Sai; Patrick M. Koch; Ilseung Han; Jes K. Jørgensen; Woojin Kwon; Chang Won Lee; Zhi-Yun Li; Leslie W. Looney; Mayank Narang; Nagayoshi Ohashi; Shigehisa Takakuwa; John J. Tobin; Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo; Shih-Ping Lai; Jeong-Eun Lee; Kengo Tomida .  Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). XV. Influence of Magnetic Field Morphology in Dense Cores on Sizes of Protostellar Disks .  The Astrophysical Journal969 ( 2 ) 125   2024.7Reviewed International coauthorship

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  • Frankie J. Encalada; Leslie W. Looney; Shigehisa Takakuwa; John J. Tobin; Nagayoshi Ohashi; Jes K. Jørgensen; Zhi-Yun Li; Yuri Aikawa; Yusuke Aso; Patrick M. Koch; Woojin Kwon; Shih-Ping Lai; Chang Won Lee; Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin; Alejandro Santamaría-Miranda; Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo; Nguyen Thi Phuong; Adele Plunkett; Jinshi Sai (Insa Choi); Rajeeb Sharma; Hsi-Wei Yen; Ilseung Han .  Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). XIII. Aligned Disks with Nonsettled Dust around the Newly Resolved Class 0 Protobinary R CrA IRAS 32 .  The Astrophysical Journal966 ( 1 ) 32   2024.5Reviewed International coauthorship

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    <jats:p>Young protostellar binary systems, with expected ages less than ∼10<jats:sup>5</jats:sup> yr, are little modified since birth, providing key clues to binary formation and evolution. We present a first look at the young, Class 0 binary protostellar system R CrA IRAS 32 from the Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks ALMA large program, which observed the system in the 1.3 mm continuum emission, <jats:sup>12</jats:sup>CO (2−1), <jats:sup>13</jats:sup>CO (2−1), C<jats:sup>18</jats:sup>O (2−1), SO (6<jats:sub>5</jats:sub>−5<jats:sub>4</jats:sub>), and nine other molecular lines that trace disks, envelopes, shocks, and outflows. With a continuum resolution of ∼0.″03 (∼5 au, at a distance of 150 pc), we characterize the newly discovered binary system with a separation of 207 au, their circumstellar disks, and a circumbinary disklike structure. The circumstellar disk radii are 26.9 ± 0.3 and 22.8 ± 0.3 au for sources A and B, respectively, and their circumstellar disk dust masses are estimated as 22.5 ± 1.1 <jats:italic>M</jats:italic>
    <jats:sub>⊕</jats:sub> and 12.4 ± 0.6 <jats:italic>M</jats:italic>
    <jats:sub>⊕</jats:sub>, respectively. The circumstellar disks and the circumbinary structure have well-aligned position angles and inclinations, indicating formation in a smooth, ordered process such as disk fragmentation. In addition, the circumstellar disks have a near/far-side asymmetry in the continuum emission, suggesting that the dust has yet to settle into a thin layer near the midplane. Spectral analysis of CO isotopologues reveals outflows that originate from both of the sources and possibly from the circumbinary disklike structure. Furthermore, we detect Keplerian rotation in the <jats:sup>13</jats:sup>CO isotopologues toward both circumstellar disks and likely Keplerian rotation in the circumbinary structure; the latter suggests that it is probably a circumbinary disk.</jats:p>

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  • Jinshi Sai; Hsi-Wei Yen; Masahiro N. Machida; Nagayoshi Ohashi; Yusuke Aso; Anaëlle J. Maury; Sébastien Maret .  Multiple Outflows around a Single Protostar IRAS 15398-3359 .  The Astrophysical Journal966 ( 2 ) 192   2024.5Reviewed International coauthorship

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  • Shigehisa Takakuwa; Kazuya Saigo; Miyu Kido; Nagayoshi Ohashi; John J. Tobin; Jes K. Jørgensen; Yuri Aikawa; Yusuke Aso; Sacha Gavino; Ilseung Han; Patrick M. Koch; Woojin Kwon; Chang Won Lee; Jeong-Eun Lee; Zhi-Yun Li; Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin; Leslie W. Looney; Shoji Mori; Jinshi Sai (Insa Choi); Rajeeb Sharma; Patrick D. Sheehan; Kengo Tomida; Jonathan P. Williams; Yoshihide Yamato; Hsi-Wei Yen .  Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). XIV. Flared Dust Distribution and Viscous Accretion Heating of the Disk around R CrA IRS 7B-a .  The Astrophysical Journal964 ( 1 ) 24   2024.3Reviewed International coauthorship

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    <jats:p>We performed radiative transfer calculations and observing simulations to reproduce the 1.3 mm dust-continuum and C<jats:sup>18</jats:sup>O (2–1) images in the Class I protostar R CrA IRS7B-a, observed with the ALMA Large Program “Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk).” We found that a dust disk model passively heated by the central protostar cannot reproduce the observed peak brightness temperature of the 1.3 mm continuum emission (∼195 K), regardless of the assumptions about the dust opacity. Our calculation suggests that viscous accretion heating in the disk is required to reproduce the observed high brightness temperature. The observed intensity profile of the 1.3 mm dust-continuum emission along the disk minor axis is skewed toward the far side of the disk. Our modeling reveals that this asymmetric intensity distribution requires flaring of the dust along the disk vertical direction with the scale height following <jats:italic>h</jats:italic>/<jats:italic>r</jats:italic> ∼ <jats:italic>r</jats:italic>
    <jats:sup>0.3</jats:sup> as a function of radius. These results are in sharp contrast to those of Class II disks, which show geometrically flat dust distributions and lower dust temperatures. From our modeling of the C<jats:sup>18</jats:sup>O (2–1) emission, the outermost radius of the gas disk is estimated to be ∼80 au, which is larger than that of the dust disk (∼62 au), to reproduce the observed distribution of the C<jats:sup>18</jats:sup>O (2–1) emission in IRS 7B-a. Our modeling unveils a hot and thick dust disk plus a larger gas disk around one of the eDisk targets, which could be applicable to other protostellar sources in contrast to more evolved sources.</jats:p>

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  • Yusuke Aso; Jinshi Sai (Insa Choi) .  Spectral Line Analysis/modeling (slam) i: Pvanalysis .  Publication of Korean Astronomical Society39 ( 2 ) 27   2024.1Reviewed

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  • Travis J. Thieme; Shih-Ping Lai; Nagayoshi Ohashi; John J. Tobin; Jes K. Jørgensen; Jinshi Sai (Insa Choi); Yusuke Aso; Jonathan P. Williams; Yoshihide Yamato; Yuri Aikawa; Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo; Ilseung Han; Woojin Kwon; Chang Won Lee; Jeong-Eun Lee; Zhi-Yun Li; Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin; Leslie W. Looney; Suchitra Narayanan; Nguyen Thi Phuong; Adele L. Plunkett; Alejandro Santamaría-Miranda; Rajeeb Sharma; Shigehisa Takakuwa; Hsi-Wei Yen .  Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). VIII. A Small Protostellar Disk around the Extremely Low Mass and Young Class 0 Protostar IRAS 15398-3359 .  The Astrophysical Journal958 ( 1 ) 60   2023.11Reviewed International coauthorship

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  • Christian Flores; Nagayoshi Ohashi; John J. Tobin; Jes K. Jørgensen; Shigehisa Takakuwa; Zhi-Yun Li; Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin; Merel L. R. van't Hoff; Adele L. Plunkett; Yoshihide Yamato; Jinshi Sai (Insa Choi); Patrick M. Koch; Hsi-Wei Yen; Yuri Aikawa; Yusuke Aso; Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo; Miyu Kido; Woojin Kwon; Jeong-Eun Lee; Chang Won Lee; Leslie W. Looney; Alejandro Santamaría-Miranda; Rajeeb Sharma; Travis J. Thieme; Jonathan P. Williams; Ilseung Han; Suchitra Narayanan; Shih-Ping Lai .  Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). XII. Accretion Streamers, Protoplanetary Disk, and Outflow in the Class I Source Oph IRS 63 .  The Astrophysical Journal958 ( 1 ) 98   2023.11Reviewed International coauthorship

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    <jats:p>We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of the Class I source Oph IRS 63 in the context of the Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks large program. Our ALMA observations of Oph IRS 63 show a myriad of protostellar features, such as a shell-like bipolar outflow (in <jats:sup>12</jats:sup>CO), an extended rotating envelope structure (in <jats:sup>13</jats:sup>CO), a streamer connecting the envelope to the disk (in C<jats:sup>18</jats:sup>O), and several small-scale spiral structures seen toward the edge of the dust continuum (in SO). By analyzing the velocity pattern of <jats:sup>13</jats:sup>CO and C<jats:sup>18</jats:sup>O, we measure a protostellar mass of <jats:italic>M</jats:italic>
    <jats:sub>⋆</jats:sub> = 0.5 ± 0.2 <jats:italic>M</jats:italic>
    <jats:sub>⊙</jats:sub> and confirm the presence of a disk rotating at almost Keplerian velocity that extends up to ∼260 au. These calculations also show that the gaseous disk is about four times larger than the dust disk, which could indicate dust evolution and radial drift. Furthermore, we model the C<jats:sup>18</jats:sup>O streamer and SO spiral structures as features originating from an infalling rotating structure that continuously feeds the young protostellar disk. We compute an envelope-to-disk mass infall rate of ∼10<jats:sup>−6</jats:sup>
    <jats:italic>M</jats:italic>
    <jats:sub>⊙</jats:sub> yr<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> and compare it to the disk-to-star mass accretion rate of ∼10<jats:sup>−8</jats:sup>
    <jats:italic>M</jats:italic>
    <jats:sub>⊙</jats:sub> yr<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup>, from which we infer that the protostellar disk is in a mass buildup phase. At the current mass infall rate, we speculate that soon the disk will become too massive to be gravitationally stable.</jats:p>

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  • Yusuke Aso; Woojin Kwon; Nagayoshi Ohashi; Jes K. Jørgensen; John J. Tobin; Yuri Aikawa; Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo; Ilseung Han; Miyu Kido; Patrick M. Koch; Shih-Ping Lai; Chang Won Lee; Jeong-Eun Lee; Zhi-Yun Li; Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin; Leslie W. Looney; Suchitra Narayanan; Nguyen Thi Phuong; Jinshi Sai (Insa Choi); Kazuya Saigo; Alejandro Santamaría-Miranda; Rajeeb Sharma; Shigehisa Takakuwa; Travis J. Thieme; Kengo Tomida; Jonathan P. Williams; Hsi-Wei Yen .  Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). VI. Kinematic Structures around the Very-low-mass Protostar IRAS 16253-2429 .  The Astrophysical Journal954 ( 1 ) 101   2023.9Reviewed International coauthorship

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    <jats:p>Precise estimates of protostellar masses are crucial to characterize the formation of stars of low masses down to brown dwarfs (BDs; <jats:italic>M</jats:italic>
    <jats:sub>*</jats:sub> &lt; 0.08 <jats:italic>M</jats:italic>
    <jats:sub>☉</jats:sub>). The most accurate estimation of protostellar mass uses the Keplerian rotation in the circumstellar disk around the protostar. To apply the Keplerian rotation method to a protostar at the low-mass end, we have observed the Class 0 protostar IRAS 16253-2429 using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the 1.3 mm continuum at an angular resolution of 0.″07 (10 au), and in the <jats:sup>12</jats:sup>CO, C<jats:sup>18</jats:sup>O, <jats:sup>13</jats:sup>CO (<jats:italic>J</jats:italic> = 2–1), and SO (<jats:italic>J</jats:italic>
    <jats:sub>
    <jats:italic>N</jats:italic>
    </jats:sub> = 6<jats:sub>5</jats:sub>−5<jats:sub>4</jats:sub>) molecular lines, as part of the ALMA Large Program Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks project. The continuum emission traces a nonaxisymmetric, disk-like structure perpendicular to the associated <jats:sup>12</jats:sup>CO outflow. The position–velocity (PV) diagrams in the C<jats:sup>18</jats:sup>O and <jats:sup>13</jats:sup>CO lines can be interpreted as infalling and rotating motions. In contrast, the PV diagram along the major axis of the disk-like structure in the <jats:sup>12</jats:sup>CO line allows us to identify Keplerian rotation. The central stellar mass and the disk radius are estimated to be ∼0.12–0.17 <jats:italic>M</jats:italic>
    <jats:sub>☉</jats:sub> and ∼13–19 au, respectively. The SO line suggests the existence of an accretion shock at a ring (<jats:italic>r</jats:italic> ∼ 28 au) surrounding the disk and a streamer from the eastern side of the envelope. IRAS 16253-2429 is not a proto-BD but has a central stellar mass close to the BD mass regime, and our results provide a typical picture of such very-low-mass protostars.</jats:p>

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  • Rajeeb Sharma; Jes K. Jørgensen; Sacha Gavino; Nagayoshi Ohashi; John J. Tobin; Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin; Zhi-Yun Li; Shigehisa Takakuwa; Chang Won Lee; Jinshi Sai (Insa Choi); Woojin Kwon; Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo; Alejandro Santamaría-Miranda; Hsi-Wei Yen; Yuri Aikawa; Yusuke Aso; Shih-Ping Lai; Jeong-Eun Lee; Leslie W. Looney; Nguyen Thi Phuong; Travis J. Thieme; Jonathan P. Williams .  Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). IX. High-resolution ALMA Observations of the Class 0 Protostar R CrA IRS5N and Its Surroundings .  The Astrophysical Journal954 ( 1 ) 69   2023.9Reviewed International coauthorship

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  • Jinshi Sai; Hsi-Wei Yen; Nagayoshi Ohashi; John J. Tobin; Jes K. Jørgensen; Shigehisa Takakuwa; Kazuya Saigo; Yusuke Aso; Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin; Patrick M. Koch; Yuri Aikawa; Christian Flores; Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo; Ilseung Han; Miyu Kido; Woojin Kwon; Shih-Ping Lai; Chang Won Lee; Jeong-Eun Lee; Zhi-Yun Li; Leslie W. Looney; Shoji Mori; Nguyen Thi Phuong; Alejandro Santamaría-Miranda; Rajeeb Sharma; Travis J. Thieme; Kengo Tomida; Jonathan P. Williams .  Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). V. Possible Annular Substructure in a Circumstellar Disk in the Ced110 IRS4 System .  The Astrophysical Journal954 ( 1 ) 67   2023.9Reviewed International coauthorship

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  • Yuka Terada; Hauyu Baobab Liu; David Mkrtichian; Jinshi Sai; Mihoko Konishi; Ing-Guey Jiang; Takayuki Muto; Jun Hashimoto; Motohide Tamura .  Anisotropic Ionizing Illumination from an M-type Pre-main-sequence Star, DM Tau .  The Astrophysical Journal953 ( 2 ) 147   2023.8Reviewed International coauthorship

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  • Miyu Kido; Shigehisa Takakuwa; Kazuya Saigo; Nagayoshi Ohashi; John J. Tobin; Jes K. Jørgensen; Yuri Aikawa; Yusuke Aso; Frankie J. Encalada; Christian Flores; Sacha Gavino; Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo; Ilseung Han; Shingo Hirano; Patrick M. Koch; Woojin Kwon; Shih-Ping Lai; Chang Won Lee; Jeong-Eun Lee; Zhi-Yun Li; Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin; Leslie W. Looney; Shoji Mori; Suchitra Narayanan; Adele L. Plunkett; Nguyen Thi Phuong; Jinshi Sai (Insa Choi); Alejandro Santamaría-Miranda; Rajeeb Sharma; Patrick D. Sheehan; Travis J. Thieme; Kengo Tomida; Merel L. R. van't Hoff; Jonathan P. Williams; Yoshihide Yamato; Hsi-Wei Yen .  Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). VII. Keplerian Disk, Disk Substructure, and Accretion Streamers in the Class 0 Protostar IRAS 16544-1604 in CB 68 .  The Astrophysical Journal953 ( 2 ) 190   2023.8Reviewed International coauthorship

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    <jats:p>We present observations of the Class 0 protostar IRAS 16544–1604 in CB 68 from the “Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk)” ALMA Large program. The ALMA observations target continuum and lines at 1.3 mm with an angular resolution of ∼5 au. The continuum image reveals a dusty protostellar disk with a radius of ∼30 au seen close to edge-on and asymmetric structures along both the major and minor axes. While the asymmetry along the minor axis can be interpreted as the effect of the dust flaring, the asymmetry along the major axis comes from a real nonaxisymmetric structure. The C<jats:sup>18</jats:sup>O image cubes clearly show the gas in the disk that follows a Keplerian rotation pattern around a ∼0.14 <jats:italic>M</jats:italic>
    <jats:sub>⊙</jats:sub> central protostar. Furthermore, there are ∼1500 au scale streamer-like features of gas connecting from northeast, north–northwest, and northwest to the disk, as well as the bending outflow as seen in the <jats:sup>12</jats:sup>CO (2–1) emission. At the apparent landing point of the NE streamer, there is SO (6<jats:sub>5</jats:sub>–5<jats:sub>4</jats:sub>) and SiO (5–4) emission detected. The spatial and velocity structure of the NE streamer can be interpreted as a free-falling gas with a conserved specific angular momentum, and the detection of the SO and SiO emission at the tip of the streamer implies the presence of accretion shocks. Our eDisk observations have unveiled that the Class 0 protostar in CB 68 has a Keplerian-rotating disk with a flaring and nonaxisymmetric structure associated with accretion streamers and outflows.</jats:p>

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  • Yoshihide Yamato; Yuri Aikawa; Nagayoshi Ohashi; John J. Tobin; Jes K. Jørgensen; Shigehisa Takakuwa; Yusuke Aso; Jinshi Sai (Insa Choi); Christian Flores; Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo; Shingo Hirano; Ilseung Han; Miyu Kido; Patrick M. Koch; Woojin Kwon; Shih-Ping Lai; Chang Won Lee; Jeong-Eun Lee; Zhi-Yun Li; Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin; Leslie W. Looney; Shoji Mori; Suchitra Narayanan; Nguyen Thi Phuong; Kazuya Saigo; Alejandro Santamaría-Miranda; Rajeeb Sharma; Travis J. Thieme; Kengo Tomida; Merel L. R. van't Hoff; Hsi-Wei Yen .  Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). IV. The Ringed and Warped Structure of the Disk around the Class I Protostar L1489 IRS .  The Astrophysical Journal951 ( 1 ) 11   2023.7Reviewed International coauthorship

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  • Merel L. R. van't Hoff; John J. Tobin; Zhi-Yun Li; Nagayoshi Ohashi; Jes K. Jørgensen; Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin; Yuri Aikawa; Yusuke Aso; Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo; Sacha Gavino; Ilseung Han; Patrick M. Koch; Woojin Kwon; Chang Won Lee; Jeong-Eun Lee; Leslie W. Looney; Suchitra Narayanan; Adele Plunkett; Jinshi Sai (Insa Choi); Alejandro Santamaría-Miranda; Rajeeb Sharma; Patrick D. Sheehan; Shigehisa Takakuwa; Travis J. Thieme; Jonathan P. Williams; Shih-Ping Lai; Nguyen Thi Phuong; Hsi-Wei Yen .  Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). III. A First High-resolution View of Submillimeter Continuum and Molecular Line Emission toward the Class 0 Protostar L1527 IRS .  The Astrophysical Journal951 ( 1 ) 10   2023.7Reviewed International coauthorship

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    <jats:p>Studying the physical and chemical conditions of young embedded disks is crucial to constrain the initial conditions for planet formation. Here we present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations of dust continuum at ∼0.″06 (8 au) resolution and molecular line emission at ∼0.″17 (24 au) resolution toward the Class 0 protostar L1527 IRS from the Large Program eDisk (Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks). The continuum emission is smooth without substructures but asymmetric along both the major and minor axes of the disk as previously observed. The detected lines of <jats:sup>12</jats:sup>CO, <jats:sup>13</jats:sup>CO, C<jats:sup>18</jats:sup>O, H<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>CO, c-C<jats:sub>3</jats:sub>H<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>, SO, SiO, and DCN trace different components of the protostellar system, with a disk wind potentially visible in <jats:sup>12</jats:sup>CO. The <jats:sup>13</jats:sup>CO brightness temperature and the H<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>CO line ratio confirm that the disk is too warm for CO freezeout, with the snowline located at ∼350 au in the envelope. Both molecules show potential evidence of a temperature increase around the disk–envelope interface. SO seems to originate predominantly in UV-irradiated regions such as the disk surface and the outflow cavity walls rather than at the disk–envelope interface as previously suggested. Finally, the continuum asymmetry along the minor axis is consistent with the inclination derived from the large-scale (100″ or 14,000 au) outflow, but opposite to that based on the molecular jet and envelope emission, suggesting a misalignment in the system. Overall, these results highlight the importance of observing multiple molecular species in multiple transitions to characterize the physical and chemical environment of young disks.</jats:p>

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  • Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin; Zhi-Yun Li; John J. Tobin; Nagayoshi Ohashi; Jes Kristian Jørgensen; Leslie W. Looney; Yusuke Aso; Shigehisa Takakuwa; Yuri Aikawa; Merel L. R. van't Hoff; Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo; Frankie J. Encalada; Christian Flores; Sacha Gavino; Ilseung Han; Miyu Kido; Patrick M. Koch; Woojin Kwon; Shih-Ping Lai; Chang Won Lee; Jeong-Eun Lee; Nguyen Thi Phuong; Jinshi (Insa Choi) Sai; Rajeeb Sharma; Patrick Sheehan; Travis J. Thieme; Jonathan P. Williams; Yoshihide Yamato; Hsi-Wei Yen .  Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). II. Limited Dust Settling and Prominent Snow Surfaces in the Edge-on Class I Disk IRAS 04302+2247 .  The Astrophysical Journal951 ( 1 ) 9   2023.7Reviewed International coauthorship

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    <jats:p>While dust disks around optically visible, Class II protostars are found to be vertically thin, when and how dust settles to the midplane are unclear. As part of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array large program, Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks, we analyze the edge-on, embedded, Class I protostar IRAS 04302+2247, also nicknamed the “Butterfly Star.” With a resolution of 0.″05 (8 au), the 1.3 mm continuum shows an asymmetry along the minor axis that is evidence of an optically thick and geometrically thick disk viewed nearly edge-on. There is no evidence of rings and gaps, which could be due to the lack of radial substructure or the highly inclined and optically thick view. With 0.″1 (16 au) resolution, we resolve the 2D snow surfaces, i.e., the boundary region between freeze-out and sublimation, for <jats:sup>12</jats:sup>CO <jats:italic>J</jats:italic> = 2–1, <jats:sup>13</jats:sup>CO <jats:italic>J</jats:italic> = 2–1, C<jats:sup>18</jats:sup>O <jats:italic>J</jats:italic> = 2–1, <jats:italic>H</jats:italic>
    <jats:sub>2</jats:sub>CO <jats:italic>J</jats:italic> = 3<jats:sub>0,3</jats:sub>–2<jats:sub>0,2</jats:sub>, and SO <jats:italic>J</jats:italic> = 6<jats:sub>5</jats:sub>–5<jats:sub>4</jats:sub>, and constrain the CO midplane snow line to ∼130 au. We find Keplerian rotation around a protostar of 1.6 ± 0.4<jats:italic> M</jats:italic>
    <jats:sub>⊙</jats:sub> using C<jats:sup>18</jats:sup>O. Through forward ray-tracing using RADMC-3D, we find that the dust scale height is ∼6 au at a radius of 100 au from the central star and is comparable to the gas pressure scale height. The results suggest that the dust of this Class I source has yet to vertically settle significantly.</jats:p>

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  • Nagayoshi Ohashi; John J. Tobin; Jes K. Jørgensen; Shigehisa Takakuwa; Patrick Sheehan; Yuri Aikawa; Zhi-Yun Li; Leslie W. Looney; Jonathan P. Williams; Yusuke Aso; Rajeeb Sharma; Jinshi Sai (Insa Choi); Yoshihide Yamato; Jeong-Eun Lee; Kengo Tomida; Hsi-Wei Yen; Frankie J. Encalada; Christian Flores; Sacha Gavino; Miyu Kido; Ilseung Han; Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin; Suchitra Narayanan; Nguyen Thi Phuong; Alejandro Santamaría-Miranda; Travis J. Thieme; Merel L. R. van't Hoff; Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo; Patrick M. Koch; Woojin Kwon; Shih-Ping Lai; Chang Won Lee; Adele Plunkett; Kazuya Saigo; Shingo Hirano; Ka Ho Lam; Shoji Mori .  Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). I. Overview of the Program and First Results .  The Astrophysical Journal951 ( 1 ) 8   2023.7Reviewed International coauthorship

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    <jats:p>We present an overview of the Large Program, “Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk),” conducted with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The ubiquitous detections of substructures, particularly rings and gaps, in protoplanetary disks around T Tauri stars raise the possibility that at least some planet formation may have already started during the embedded stages of star formation. In order to address exactly how and when planet formation is initiated, the program focuses on searching for substructures in disks around 12 Class 0 and 7 Class I protostars in nearby (&lt;200 pc) star-forming regions through 1.3 mm continuum observations at a resolution of ∼7 au (0.″04). The initial results show that the continuum emission, mostly arising from dust disks around the sample protostars, has relatively few distinctive substructures, such as rings and spirals, in marked contrast to Class II disks. The dramatic difference may suggest that substructures quickly develop in disks when the systems evolve from protostars to Class II sources, or alternatively that high optical depth of the continuum emission could obscure internal structures. Kinematic information obtained through CO isotopologue lines and other lines reveals the presence of Keplerian disks around protostars, providing us with crucial physical parameters, in particular, the dynamical mass of the central protostars. We describe the background of the eDisk program, the sample selection and their ALMA observations, and the data reduction, and we also highlight representative first-look results.</jats:p>

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  • Jinshi Sai (Insa Choi); Nagayoshi Ohashi; Hsi-Wei Yen; Anaëlle J. Maury; Sébastien Maret .  Probing Velocity Structures of Protostellar Envelopes: Infalling and Rotating Envelopes within Turbulent Dense Cores .  The Astrophysical Journal944 ( 2 ) 222   2023.2Reviewed International coauthorship

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  • Hsi-Wei Yen; Patrick M. Koch; Chin-Fei Lee; Naomi Hirano; Nagayoshi Ohashi; Jinshi Sai (Insa Choi); Shigehisa Takakuwa; Ya-Wen Tang; Ken'ichi Tatematsu; Bo Zhao .  Increasing Mass-to-flux Ratio from the Dense Core to the Protostellar Envelope around the Class 0 Protostar HH 211 .  The Astrophysical Journal942 ( 1 ) 32   2023.1Reviewed International coauthorship

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  • Satoshi Ohashi; Hiroshi Kobayashi; Jinshi Sai; Nami Sakai .  No Evidence of the Significant Grain Growth but Tentative Discovery of Disk Substructure in a Disk around the Class I Protostar L1489 IRS .  The Astrophysical Journal933 ( 1 ) 23   2022.7Reviewed

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  • Jinshi Sai; Nagayoshi Ohashi; Anaëlle J. Maury; Sébastien Maret; Hsi-Wei Yen; Yusuke Aso; Mathilde Gaudel .  Which Part of Dense Cores Feeds Material to Protostars? The Case of L1489 IRS .  The Astrophysical Journal925 ( 1 ) 12   2022.1Reviewed International coauthorship

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  • Jinshi Sai; Nagayoshi Ohashi; Kazuya Saigo; Tomoaki Matsumoto; Yusuke Aso; Shigehisa Takakuwa; Yuri Aikawa; Ippei Kurose; Hsi-Wei Yen; Kohji Tomisaka; Kengo Tomida; Masahiro N. Machida .  Disk Structure around the Class I Protostar L1489 IRS Revealed by ALMA: A Warped-disk System .  The Astrophysical Journal893 ( 1 ) 51   2020.4Reviewed International coauthorship

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  • Satoshi Mayama; Eiji Akiyama; Olja Panić; James Miley; Takashi Tsukagoshi; Takayuki Muto; Ruobing Dong; Jerome de Leon; Toshiyuki Mizuki; Daehyeon Oh; Jun Hashimoto; Jinshi Sai; Thayne Currie; Michihiro Takami; Carol A. Grady; Masahiko Hayashi; Motohide Tamura; Shu-ichiro Inutsuka .  ALMA Reveals a Misaligned Inner Gas Disk inside the Large Cavity of a Transitional Disk .  The Astrophysical Journal Letters868 ( 1 ) L3   2018.11Reviewed International coauthorship

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    <jats:p>Pairs of azimuthal intensity decrements at near-symmetric locations have been seen in a number of protoplanetary disks. They are most commonly interpreted as the two shadows cast by a highly misaligned inner disk. Direct evidence of such an inner disk, however, remains largely illusive, except in rare cases. In 2012, a pair of such shadows were discovered in scattered-light observations of the near face-on disk around 2MASS J16042165-2130284, a transitional object with a cavity ∼60 au in radius. The star itself is a “dipper,” with quasi-periodic dimming events on its light curve, commonly hypothesized as caused by extinctions by transiting dusty structures in the inner disk. Here, we report the detection of a gas disk inside the cavity using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations with ∼0.″2 angular resolution. A twisted butterfly pattern is found in the moment 1 map of the CO (3–2) emission line toward the center, which is the key signature of a high misalignment between the inner and outer disks. In addition, the counterparts of the shadows are seen in both dust continuum emission and gas emission maps, consistent with these regions being cooler than their surroundings. Our findings strongly support the hypothesized misaligned inner disk origin of the shadows in the J1604-2130 disk. Finally, the inclination of the inner disk would be close to −45° in contrast with 45°; it is possible that its internal asymmetric structures cause the variations on the light curve of the host star.</jats:p>

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  • Jinshi Sai   Large Nonthermal Velocity Dispersion in the Outer Disk of HL Tau   International coauthorship International conference

    Discs on the Exe  2026.7  University of Exeter

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  • Jinshi Sai, Eduard I. Vorobyov, Alexandr Skliarevskii, Michihiro Takami   Disk Kinematics as Diagnostics of FU Orionis–Type Outburst Mechanisms   International coauthorship International conference

    Eruptive YSO Workshop  2026.5 

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  • Handling Fits Images with Python: an Introduction of imfits   Invited

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  • Jinshi Sai   Predicting Observational Features of FU Orionis-type Outburst Mechanisms—Disk Kinematics and Line Morphology  

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  • 崔仁士,Eduard, I. Vorobyov, Alexandr Skliarevskii, 高見道弘   原始惑星系円盤の力学構造に基づくFU Orionis 型バースト機構の解明:分子 輝線観測予測   International coauthorship

    日本天文学会2026年春季年会  2026.3  日本天文学会

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  • Kinematical Diagnostic of FU Orionis-type Outburst Mechanisms   International coauthorship

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  • Jinshi Sai, Eduard I. Vorobyov, Alexandr Skliarevskii, Michihiro Takami   Morphological and Kinematical Diagnostic of FU Orionis-type Outburst Mechanisms   International coauthorship

    Nobeyama Star and Planet formation Workshop  2025.10 

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  • Jinshi Sai, Shigehisa Takakuwa, Hsi-Wei Yen   Direct Measurement of Turbulence in the Embedded Disk around HL Tau   International coauthorship International conference

    East Asian ALMA Science Workshop 2025  2025.9  Amanogawa Galaxy Astronomy Research Center/Kagoshima University/NAOJ

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  • 崔仁士, Hsi-Wei Yen, 高桑繁久   ALMA を用いたHL Tau 周囲の原始星円盤における乱流強度の直接測定   International coauthorship

    日本天文学会2025年秋季年会  2025.9  日本天文学会

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  • Direct Measurement of Turbulence in the Outer Disk of HL Tau   International coauthorship

    2025.8 

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  • Jinshi Sai, Hsi-Wei Yen, Masahiro N. Machida, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Yusuke Aso, Anaëlle Maury, Sébastien Maret   Multiple Outflows Observed in the Protostellar System IRAS 15398-3359   International coauthorship International conference

    NA–TW Joint ALMA Workshop 2025  2025.6  ASIAA/TARA/NSF/NRAO/NAASC

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  • 崔仁士   原始惑星系円盤の力学構造に基づくFU Orionis 型バースト機構の解明:分子 輝線観測予測   International coauthorship

    天文学会2026年春季年会  2025.3  日本天文学会

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  • Jinshi Sai, Hsi-Wei Yen, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Anaëlle Maury, Sébastien Maret, Yusuke Aso, Masahiro N. Machida   Influence of Turbulence in Dense Cores on the Disk Formation Process   International coauthorship International conference

    NTU x ASIAA Mini Workshop  2025.1 

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  • Jinshi Sai   Gas Kinematics of Protostellar Envelopes Probed by Multiscale Observations   International coauthorship

    Exploring Hierarchical Interstellar Matter with High-Spatial Dynamic Range and Multi-Line Observations  2024.11 

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  • Jinshi Sai   Multiple Outflows Observed around the Single Protostar IRAS 15398−3359   International coauthorship International conference

    Mini Workshop on Star Formation  2024.6 

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    Venue:Kagoshima University   Country:Japan  

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  • Jinshi Sai, Hsi-Wei Yen, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Anaëlle Maury, Sébastien Maret, Yusuke Aso, Msahiro N. Machida, Kazuya Saigo, Tomoaki Matsumoto   Influence of Turbulence in Dense Cores on the Formation and Evolution of Protostellar Disks   International coauthorship International conference

    The Early Phase of Star Formation  2024.5  Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

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    Event date: 2024.5

    Language:English   Presentation type:Poster presentation  

    Venue:Ringberg Castle   Country:Germany  

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  • 崔仁士, Hsi-Wei Yen, 町田正博, 大橋永芳, 麻生有佑   ACA モザイク観測で明らかとなった原始星IRAS 15398−3359 に付随する複数 のアウトフロー   International coauthorship

    日本天文学会2024年春季年会  2024.3  日本天文学会

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    Event date: 2024.3

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:東京大学本郷キャンパス/オンライン   Country:Japan  

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  • Jinshi Sai, Hsi-Wei Yen, Machida N. Machida, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Yusuke Aso, Anaëlle Maury, Sébastien Maret   Multiple Outflows around the Single Protostar IRAS15398–3359   International coauthorship International conference

    Annual Meeting of the Physical Society of Taiwan 2024  2024.1  The Physical Society of Taiwan

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    Event date: 2024.1

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    Venue:National Central University   Country:Taiwan, Province of China  

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  • Jinshi Sai   Multiple Outflows around the Single Protostar IRAS 15398−3359   International coauthorship International conference

    Probing the Universe at Higher Resolution  2023.11  ASIAA/ASROC/NSTC

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    Event date: 2023.10 - 2023.11

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics   Country:Taiwan, Province of China  

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  • Jinshi Sai, the eDisk team   Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk): Possible Substructure Formation in an Embedded Disk of the Ced110 IRS4 system   International coauthorship International conference

    Protostar and Planets VII  2023.4  JST/AstroBiology Center/JSPS/NAOJ/FPA/SPSS

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    Venue:Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto   Country:Japan  

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  • 崔仁士, the eDisk team   eDisk First-look Result: 原始星Ced110 IRS4A 周囲の円盤におけるサブストラ クチャー形成の可能性  

    日本天文学会2023年春季年会  2023.3  日本天文学会

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    Event date: 2023.3

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    Venue:立教大学   Country:Japan  

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  • Jinshi Sai, the eDisk team   First Results from the Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) Survey: a Possible Substructure in an Embedded Disk around Ced110 IRS4   International coauthorship International conference

    East-Asian Science Workshop 2023  2023.2  UCAT/TAOVA/ASROC/ASIAA

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    Venue:The Great Roots Resort, New Taipei City   Country:Taiwan, Province of China  

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  • Jinshi Sai, the eDisk team   First Results from the eDisk Survey: a Marginal Substructure in an Embedded Disk around Ced110 IRS4   International coauthorship International conference

    A Half Century of Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy  2022.12 

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    Venue:Miyakojima, Okinawa   Country:Japan  

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  • Jinshi Sai, the eDisk collaboration   First Results from the Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) Survey: Shallow Substructures in an Embedded Disk around Ced110 IRS4   International coauthorship International conference

    Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of Republic of China (ASROC) 2022  2022.10  NCCU/ASIAA/NSTC

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    Event date: 2022.9 - 2022.10

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    Venue:National Chung Cheng University   Country:Taiwan, Province of China  

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  • Jinshi Sai, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Hsi-Wei Yen, Anaëlle Maury, Sébastien Maret   Probing Infalling Regions around Low-mass Protostars with Multiscale Observations   International coauthorship International conference

    Star Formation in different environments 2022  2022.8  Rencontres du Vietnam/ICISE

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    Event date: 2022.8

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    Venue:Quy Nhon   Country:Viet Nam  

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  • 崔仁士, 大橋永芳, Hsi-Wei Yen, Anaëlle Maury, Sébastien Maret   マルチスケール観測から探る原始星周囲のガスの力学   International coauthorship

    宇宙電波懇談会シンポジウム2021  2022.3  宇宙電波懇談会

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    Event date: 2022.3

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:オンライン   Country:Japan  

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  • 崔仁士, 大橋永芳, Hsi-Wei Yen, Anaëlle Maury, Sébastien Maret   マルチスケール観測から探る原始星エンベロープ/コアの力学   International coauthorship

    日本天文学会2022年春季年会  2022.3  日本天文学会

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    Event date: 2022.3

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    Venue:広島大学/オンライン   Country:Japan  

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  • Jinshi Sai, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Hsi-Wei Yen, Anaëlle Maury, Sébastien Maret   The Gas Kinematics of the Protostellar Envelopes/Core Probed with Multiscale Observations   International coauthorship International conference

    East Asian ALMA Science Workshop 2022  2022.1  NAOJ

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    Venue:Online  

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  • 崔仁士, 大橋永芳, Anaëlle Maury, Sébastien Maret, Hsi-Wei Yen, 麻生有佑, Mathilde Gaudel   エンベロープの力学構から探る原始星L1489 IRS周囲の比角運動量輸送過程  

    惑星系形成若手研究会  2021.2 

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    Event date: 2021.2

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:Japan  

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  • Jinshi Sai, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Anaëlle Maury, Sébastien Maret, Hsi-Wei Yen, Yusuke Aso, Mathilde Gaudel   Which Part of Dense Cores Does Feed Materials to Protostars?: the Case of L1489 IRS   International coauthorship International conference

    East Asian ALMA Science Workshop 2021  2021.2  KASI

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    Event date: 2021.2

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:Online   Country:Korea, Republic of  

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  • 崔仁士, 大橋永芳, Anaëlle Maury, Sébastien Maret, Mathilde Gaudel   原始星L1489 IRS のマルチスケール観測: ∼1,000–10^4 au スケールの力学構造   International coauthorship

    日本天文学会2020年秋季年会  2020.9  日本天文学会

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    Event date: 2020.9

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:弘前大学/オンライン   Country:Japan  

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  • Jinshi Sai, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Anaëlle Maury, Sébastien Maret, Kazuya Saigo, Mathilda Gaudel   Kinematical Transition from an Infalling Envelope to a Quiescent Core around the Protostar L1489 IRS   International coauthorship International conference

    East Asian ALMA Science Workshop 2019  2020.2  ASIAA

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    Language:English   Presentation type:Poster presentation  

    Venue:Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics   Country:Taiwan, Province of China  

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  • Jinshi Sai, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Anaëlle Maury, Sébastien Maret, Hsi-Wei Yen, Yusuke Aso, Mathilda Gaudel   A Kinematical Transition from an Infalling Envelope to a Core around the Protostar L1489 IRS   International coauthorship International conference

    RAS Early Career Poster Exhibition 2020  2020  The Royal Astronomical Society

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    Event date: 2020

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    Venue:Online  

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  • Jinshi Sai, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Kazuya Saigo, Tomoaki Matsumoto, Yusuke Aso, Shigehisa Takakuwa, Yuri Aikawa, Ippei Kurose, Hsi-Wei Yen, Kohji Tomisaka, Kengo Tomida, Masahiro N. Machida   Warped Disk Structure around the Class I Protostar L1489 IRS Revealed by ALMA   International coauthorship International conference

    ALMA Workshop 2019: Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks  2019.12 

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    Event date: 2019.12

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    Venue:Tokyo University   Country:Japan  

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  • Jinshi Sai, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Kazuya Saigo, Tomoaki Matsumoto   ALMA Observations of the Late-Phase Protostar L1489 IRS: Warped Disk Structure   International coauthorship International conference

    Subaru Telescope 20th Anniversary – Optical & Infrared Astronomy for the Next Decade –  2019.11  NAOJ/Kavli IPMU/Astrobiology Center/JSPS/TMT-J Project

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    Event date: 2019.11

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    Venue:Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, The Big Island of Hawaii   Country:United States  

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  • Jinshi Sai, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Anaëlle Maury, Sébastien Maret, Kazuya Saigo, Mathilda Gaudel   Transition from a Quiescent Core to an Infalling indicating quiet state Envelope around the Class I Protostar L1489 IRS   International coauthorship International conference

    JCMT Users Meeting 2019  2019.11  EAO/ASIAA

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    Event date: 2019.11

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    Venue:Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics   Country:Taiwan, Province of China  

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  • Jinshi Sai, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Kazuya Saigo, Tomoaki Matsumoto, Yusuke Aso, Shigehisa Takakuwa, Yuri Aikawa, Ippei Kurose, Hsi-Wei Yen, Kohji. Tomisaka, Kengo Tomida, Masahiro N. Machida   ALMA Observations of the Class I Protostar L1489 IRS: Warped Disk Structure   International coauthorship International conference

    Science with the Submillimeter Array: Present and Future  2019.11  ASIAA

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    Venue:Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics   Country:Taiwan, Province of China  

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  • Jinshi Sai, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Kazuya Saigo, Tomoaki Matsumoto, Shigehisa Takakuwa, Masao Saito, Yusuke Aso, Yuri Aikawa, Ippei Kurose, Hsi-Wei Yen, Kohji Tomisaka, Kengo Tomida, Masahiro N. Machida   ALMA Cycle 2 Observations of the Class I Protostar L1489 IRS: Misaligned Disk Stracture   International coauthorship International conference

    East Asia ALMA Science Workshop 2017  2017.11  KASI

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    Venue:KASI, Daejeon   Country:Korea, Republic of  

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  • 崔仁士, 大橋永芳, 西合一矢, 松本倫明, 高桑繁久, 齋藤正雄, 麻生有佑, 相川祐理, 黒瀬一平, Hsi-Wei Yen, 富阪幸治, 富田賢吾, 町田正博   ALMA によるClass I 原始星L1489 IRS の観測II: 歪んだ円盤構造   International coauthorship

    日本天文学会2017年秋季年会  2017.9  日本天文学会

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    Venue:北海道大学   Country:Japan  

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  • 崔仁士, 大橋永芳, 齋藤正雄, 西合一矢, 麻生有佑, Hsi-Wei Yen, 高桑繁久, 相川祐里, 富阪幸治, 町田正博, 富田賢吾, 小屋松進   ALMA Cycle 2/3のよるClass I原始星L1489 IRSの観測   International coauthorship

    日本天文学会2017年春季年会  2017.3  日本天文学会

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    Venue:九州大学   Country:Japan  

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  • Jinshi Sai   Disk Kinematics as Diagnostics of FU Orionis–Type Outburst Mechanisms: Predictions and Observations   Invited International coauthorship

    Special Colloquium  2026.8  University of Vienna

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    Venue:University of Vienna, Vienna   Country:Austria  

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  • Jinshi Sai   Disk Kinematics as Diagnostics of FU Orionis–Type Outburst Mechanisms: Predictions and Observations   Invited International coauthorship

    Lunch Talk  2026.8  Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysicsinica

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    Venue:Taipei   Country:Taiwan, Province of China  

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  • Jinshi Sai   Direct Measurent of Turbulence in the Embedded Disk of HL Tau   Invited International coauthorship

    ASIAA Lunch Seminar  2025.3  Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics

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    Venue:Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics   Country:Taiwan, Province of China  

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  • Jinshi Sai   Influence of Turbulence of Dense Cores on Disk Structures in the Disk Formation Process   Invited International coauthorship

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    Country:Japan  

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Research Projects

  • 回転円盤の擾乱から解き明かす星と惑星の共進化

    Grant number:26160167  2026.4

    文部科学省  科学研究費助成事業 

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    Grant amount:\3500000 ( Direct Cost: \3500000 、 Indirect Cost:\1050000 )

  • 銀河団中心の星形成史を解き明かす鍵となる低温原子ガスの系統的観測

    Grant number:26190769  2026.4

    文部科学省  科学研究費助成事業 

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    Authorship:Coinvestigator(s)  Grant type:Competitive

    Grant amount:\14100000 ( Direct Cost: \14100000 、 Indirect Cost:\4230000 )