Accretion Burst Crystallizes Silicates in a Planet-Forming Disk

arXiv:2607.27765 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-07-30 · Read on arXiv

Jeong-Eun Lee, Chul-Hwan Kim, Jaeyeong Kim, Seokho Lee, Young-Jun Kim, Seonjae Lee, Giseon Baek, Joel D. Green, Gregory J. Herczeg, Doug Johnstone, Klaus M. Pontoppidan, Yuri Aikawa, Yao-Lun Yang, Logan Francis, Mihwa Jin, Hyerin Jang

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-07-30

Comments: 33 pages, 12 figures, 1 table, This is the author accepted manuscript of an article published in Nature. The final published version is available at this https URL (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09939-3)

Journal ref: Nature 649, 853-858 (2026)

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09939-3

Code: https://github.com/JY-Kim8502/JKAS

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Calibration — 10× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• James Webb Space Telescope — 3× in this paper
• Aperture — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• For the MIRI Medium Resolution Spectroscopy — 1× in this paper
• Markov Chain Monte Carlo — 1× in this paper
• National Research Foundation of Korea — 1× in this paper

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