Ilaria Pascucci

PTYS/LPL Faculty

Kuiper 532

520-626-5373

Ilaria Pascucci

Professor

Ph.D., 2004, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy Heidelberg

Years with LPL: 2011 to present

Astrobiology, Exoplanets, Planetary Astronomy, Planetary Formation and Evolution

My research is directed towards understanding how planets form and evolve and how common are planetary systems like our own Solar system. To this end, my group carries out observations aimed at characterizing the physical and chemical evolution of gaseous dust disks around young stars, the birth sites of planets. In addition, we use exoplanet surveys to re-construct the intrinsic frequency of planets around mature stars. By linking the birth sites of planets to the exoplanet populations, we contribute to building a comprehensive and predictive planet formation theory, a necessary step in identifying which nearby stars most likely host a habitable planet like Earth.

Current Grants

  • Earths in Other Solar Systems: NASA/Nexus
  • The Evolution of Disk Winds: National Science Foundation
  • The Planetary Systems in the Solar Neighborhood: NASA/ADAP
  • Evolution of the Gas/Mass Ratio in Protoplanetary Disks: NASA/XRP
  • Alien Earths: NASA/NExSS 

Current Spacecraft Involvement

Mission Concept Studies

  • Hyperion, NASA/MIDEX

Former Spacecraft Involvement

  • Spitzer Space Telescope, FEPS legacy program (Co-investigator) and GO programs (PI)
  • Herschel Space Observatory, GASPS Open Time Key Program key program (Co-investigator) and GO programs (PI) 
  • Hubble Space Telescope GO programs (PI and Co-investigator)

Mission Concept Studies

Current Graduate Students

Student Collaborations/Advising

Former Students

  • Nathaniel P. Hendler, graduate student, 2014-2020, Ph.D., University of Arizona
  • Molly Simon, graduate student, 2013-2016, University of Arizona
  • James Keane, graduate student, 2011-2013, University of Arizona
  • Judit Szulagyi, undergraduate, 2010-2012, Space Telescope Science Institute and Eotvos Lorand University
  • Laszlo Szucs, undergraduate, 2009-2011, Space Telescope Science Institute and University of Szeged
  • Emily Hardegree-Ullman, undergraduate, honors thesis, 2006-2007, University of Arizona

Former Postdocs

  • Kamber Schwarz, 2018-2021
  • Andrea Banzatti, 2016 - 2019, now Faculty at Texas State University
  • Min Fang, 2016 - 2019, now Faculty at China Xiamen University
  • Gijs Mulders, 2013-2018, now Faculty at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago de Chile
  • Elisabetta Rigliaco, 2011-2014, INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Padova
  • David Fedele, 2009-2011, now Astronomer at INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Arcetri
  • Veronica Roccatagliata, 2010-2011, now Astronomer at INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Arcetri
  • Basmah Riaz, 2009-2010, now Postdoc at MPE Germany

 

 

Based on Google Scholar and NASA ADS: NASA ADS Author search: Ilaria Pascucci

Recent refereed publications (NASA ADS): Years 2019 through 2023

Bergsten, Galen J., Pascucci, Ilaria, Hardegree-Ullman, Kevin K., Fernandes, Rachel B., Christiansen, Jessie L., & Mulders, Gijs D. 2023, The Astronomical Journal. No Evidence for More Earth-sized Planets in the Habitable Zone of Kepler's M versus FGK Stars

Xie, ChengyanPascucci, IlariaLong, Feng, Pontoppidan, Klaus M., Banzatti, Andrea, Kalyaan, Anusha, Salyk, Colette, Liu, Yao, Najita, Joan R., Pinilla, Paola, Arulanantham, Nicole, Herczeg, Gregory J., Carr, John, Bergin, Edwin A., Ballering, Nicholas P., Krijt, Sebastiaan, Blake, Geoffrey A., Zhang, Ke, Öberg, Karin I., Green, Joel D., & Jdiscs Collaboration 2023, The Astrophysical Journal. Water-rich Disks around Late M Stars Unveiled: Exploring the Remarkable Case of Sz 114

Banzatti, Andrea, Pontoppidan, Klaus M., Carr, John S., Jellison, Evan, Pascucci, Ilaria, Najita, Joan R., Muñoz-Romero, Carlos E., Öberg, Karin I., Kalyaan, Anusha, Pinilla, Paola, Krijt, Sebastiaan, Long, Feng, Lambrechts, Michiel, Rosotti, Giovanni, Herczeg, Gregory J., Salyk, Colette, Zhang, Ke, Bergin, Edwin A., Ballering, Nicholas P., Meyer, Michael R., Bruderer, Simon, & Jdiscs Collaboration 2023, The Astrophysical Journal. JWST Reveals Excess Cool Water near the Snow Line in Compact Disks, Consistent with Pebble Drift

Fernandes, Rachel B., Hardegree-Ullman, Kevin K., Pascucci, IlariaBergsten, Galen J., Mulders, Gijs D., Cunha, Katia, Mamajek, Eric E., Pearson, Kyle A., Feiden, Gregory A., & Curtis, Jason L. 2023, The Astronomical Journal. Using Photometrically Derived Properties of Young Stars to Refine TESS's Transiting Young Planet Survey Completeness

Deng, Dingshan, Ruaud, Maxime, Gorti, Uma, & Pascucci, Ilaria 2023, The Astrophysical Journal. DiskMINT: A Tool to Estimate Disk Masses with CO Isotopologues

Mah, Jingyi, Bitsch, Bertram, Pascucci, Ilaria, & Henning, Thomas 2023, Astronomy and Astrophysics. Close-in ice lines and the super-stellar C/O ratio in discs around very low-mass stars

Pascucci, Ilaria, Skinner, Bennett N., Deng, Dingshan, Ruaud, Maxime, Gorti, Uma, Schwarz, Kamber R., Chapillon, Edwige, Vioque, Miguel, & Miley, James 2023, The Astrophysical Journal. Large Myr-old Disks Are Not Severely Depleted of Gas-phase CO or Carbon

Wanderley, Fábio, Cunha, Katia, Souto, Diogo, Smith, Verne V., Cao, Lyra, Pinsonneault, Marc, Allende Prieto, C., Covey, Kevin, Masseron, Thomas, Pascucci, Ilaria, Stassun, Keivan G., Terrien, Ryan, Bergsten, Galen J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Fernández-Trincado, José G., Jönsson, Henrik, Hasselquist, Sten, Holtzman, Jon A., Lane, Richard R., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Majewski, Steven R., Minniti, Dante, Pan, Kaike, Serna, Javier, Sobeck, Jennifer, & Stringfellow, Guy S. 2023, The Astrophysical Journal. Stellar Characterization and Radius Inflation of Hyades M-dwarf Stars from the APOGEE Survey

Whelan, E. T., Murphy, A., & Pascucci, I. 2023, The Astrophysical Journal. Optical Forbidden Emission Line Spectro-astrometry of T CrA: Evidence for a Multiple System and Multiple Jets 

Hardegree-Ullman, Kevin K., Apai, Dániel, Bergsten, Galen J., Pascucci, Ilaria, & López-Morales, Mercedes 2023, The Astronomical Journal. Bioverse: A Comprehensive Assessment of the Capabilities of Extremely Large Telescopes to Probe Earth-like O<SUB>2</SUB> Levels in Nearby Transiting Habitable-zone Exoplanets

Iglesias, Daniela P., Panić, Olja, van den Ancker, Mario, Petr-Gotzens, Monika G., Siess, Lionel, Vioque, Miguel, Pascucci, Ilaria, Oudmaijer, René, & Miley, James 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. X-Shooter Survey of Young Intermediate Mass Stars - I. Stellar characterization and disc evolution

Bergsten, Galen J., Pascucci, Ilaria, Mulders, Gijs D., Fernandes, Rachel B., & Koskinen, Tommi T. 2022, The Astronomical Journal. The Demographics of Kepler's Earths and Super-Earths into the Habitable Zone

Fernandes, Rachel B., Mulders, Gijs D., Pascucci, Ilaria, Bergsten, Galen J., Koskinen, Tommi T., Hardegree-Ullman, Kevin K., Pearson, Kyle A., Giacalone, Steven, Zink, Jon, Ciardi, David R., & O'Brien, Patrick 2022, The Astronomical Journal. pterodactyls: A Tool to Uniformly Search and Vet for Young Transiting Planets in TESS Primary Mission Photometry

Hamden, Erika T., Schiminovich, David, Nikzad, Shouleh, Turner, Neal J., Burkhart, Blakesley, Haworth, Thomas J., Hoadley, Keri, Serena Kim, Jinyoung, Bialy, Shmuel, Bryden, Geoff, Chung, Haeun, Imara, Nia, Kennicutt, Rob, Pineda, Jorge, Kong, Shuo, Hasegawa, Yasuhiro, Pascucci, Ilaria, Godard, Benjamin, Krumholz, Mark, Lee, Min-Young, Seifried, Daniel, Sternberg, Amiel, Walch, Stefanie, Smith, Miles, Unwin, Stephen C., Luthman, Elizabeth, Kiessling, Alina, McGuire, James P., Rais-Zadeh, Mina, Hoenk, Michael, Pavlak, Thomas, Vargas, Carlos, & Kim, Daewook 2022, Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems. Hyperion: the origin of the stars. A far UV space telescope for high-resolution spectroscopy over wide fields

Hasegawa, Yasuhiro, Haworth, Thomas J., Hoadley, Keri, Kim, Jinyoung Serena, Goto, Hina, Juzikenaite, Aine, Turner, Neal J., Pascucci, Ilaria, & Hamden, Erika T. 2022, The Astrophysical Journal. Determining Dispersal Mechanisms of Protoplanetary Disks Using Accretion and Wind Mass Loss Rates

Iglesias, Daniela P., Panić, Olja, van den Ancker, Mario, Petr-Gotzens, Monika G., Siess, Lionel, Vioque, Miguel, Pascucci, Ilaria, Oudmaijer, René, & Miley, James 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. X-Shooter Survey of Young Intermediate Mass Stars - I. Stellar characterization and disc evolution

James, Mackenzie M., Pascucci, Ilaria, Liu, Yao, Banzatti, Andrea, Krijt, Sebastiaan, Long, Feng, & Kamp, Inga 2022, The Astrophysical Journal. Testing the Retrieval of Inner Disk Water Enrichment with Spitzer/IRS and JWST/MIRI

Salyk, Colette, Pontoppidan, Klaus M., Banzatti, Andrea, Käufl, Ulrich, Hall, Cassandra, Pascucci, Ilaria, Carmona, Andrés, Blake, Geoffrey A., Alexander, Richard, & Kamp, Inga 2022, The Astronomical Journal. An Unusual Reservoir of Water Emission in the VV CrA A Protoplanetary Disk

Testi, L., Natta, A., Manara, C. F., de Gregorio Monsalvo, I., Lodato, G., Lopez, C., Muzic, K., Pascucci, I., Sanchis, E., Miranda, A. Santamaria, Scholz, A., De Simone, M., & Williams, J. P. 2022, Astronomy and Astrophysics. The protoplanetary disk population in the ρ-Ophiuchi region L1688 and the time evolution of Class II YSOs

Mulders, Gijs D., Drążkowska, Joanna, van der Marel, Nienke, Ciesla, Fred J., & Pascucci, Ilaria 2021, The Astrophysical Journal. Why Do M Dwarfs Have More Transiting Planets?

Mulders, Gijs D., Pascucci, Ilaria, Ciesla, Fred J., & Fernandes, Rachel B. 2021, The Astrophysical Journal. The Mass Budgets and Spatial Scales of Exoplanet Systems and Protoplanetary Disks

Lozovsky, M., Helled, R., Pascucci, I., Dorn, C., Venturini, J., & Feldmann, R. 2021, Astronomy and Astrophysics. Why do more massive stars host larger planets?

Fang, Min, Kim, Jinyoung Serena, Pascucci, Ilaria, & Apai, Dániel 2021, The Astrophysical Journal. An Improved Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram for the Orion Trapezium Cluster

Sanchis, E., Testi, L., Natta, A., Facchini, S., Manara, C. F., Miotello, A., Ercolano, B., Henning, T., Preibisch, T., Carpenter, J. M., de Gregorio-Monsalvo, I., Jayawardhana, R., Lopez, C., Mužić, K., Pascucci, I., Santamaría-Miranda, A., van Terwisga, S., Williams, J. P. 2021, Astronomy and Astrophysics Measuring the ratio of the gas and dust emission radii of protoplanetary disks in the Lupus star-forming region

Whelan, E. T., Pascucci, I., Gorti, U., Edwards, S., Alexander, R. D., Sterzik, M. F., Melo, C. 2021, The Astrophysical Journal Evidence for an MHD Disk Wind via Optical Forbidden Line Spectroastrometry

Pegues, J., Öberg, K. I., Bergner, J. B., Huang, J., Pascucci, I., Teague, R., Andrews, S. M., Bergin, E. A., Cleeves, L. I., Guzmán, V. V., Long, F., Qi, C., Wilner, D. J. 2021, The Astrophysical Journal An Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Survey of Chemistry in Disks around M4-M5 Stars

Panić, O., Haworth, T. J., Petr-Gotzens, M. G., Miley, J., van den Ancker, M., Vioque, M., Siess, L., Parker, R., Clarke, C. J., Kamp, I., Kennedy, G., Oudmaijer, R. D., Pascucci, I., Richards, A. M. S., Ratzka, T., Qi, C. 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Planet formation in intermediate-separation binary systems

Kurtovic, N. T., Pinilla, P., Long, F., Benisty, M., Manara, C. F., Natta, A., Pascucci, I., Ricci, L., Scholz, A., Testi, L. 2021, Astronomy and Astrophysics Size and structures of disks around very low mass stars in the Taurus star-forming region

Banzatti, Andrea, Pascucci, Ilaria, Bosman, Arthur D., Pinilla, Paola, Salyk, Colette, Herczeg, Gregory J., Pontoppidan, Klaus M., Vazquez, Ivan, Watkins, Andrew, Krijt, Sebastiaan, Hendler, Nathan, & Long, Feng 2020, The Astrophysical Journal. Hints for Icy Pebble Migration Feeding an Oxygen-rich Chemistry in the Inner Planet-forming Region of Disks

Pascucci, Ilaria, Banzatti, Andrea, Gorti, Uma, Fang, Min, Pontoppidan, Klaus, Alexander, Richard, Ballabio, Giulia, Edwards, Suzan, Salyk, Colette, Sacco, Germano, Flaccomio, Ettore, Blake, Geoffrey A., Carmona, Andres, Hall, Cassandra, Kamp, Inga, Käufl, Hans Ulrich, Meeus, Gwendolyn, Meyer, Michael, Pauly, Tyler, Steendam, Simon, & Sterzik, Michael 2020, The Astrophysical Journal. The Evolution of Disk Winds from a Combined Study of Optical and Infrared Forbidden Lines

Long, Feng, Pinilla, Paola, Herczeg, Gregory J., Andrews, Sean M., Harsono, Daniel, Johnstone, Doug, Ragusa, Enrico, Pascucci, Ilaria, Wilner, David J., Hendler, Nathan, Jennings, Jeff, Liu, Yao, Lodato, Giuseppe, Menard, Francois, van de Plas, Gerrit, & Dipierro, Giovanni 2020, The Astrophysical Journal. Dual-wavelength ALMA Observations of Dust Rings in Protoplanetary Disks

Mulders, Gijs D., O'Brien, David P., Ciesla, Fred J., Apai, Dániel, & Pascucci, Ilaria 2020, The Astrophysical Journal. Earths in Other Solar Systems' N-body Simulations: The Role of Orbital Damping in Reproducing the Kepler Planetary Systems

Manara, C. F., Natta, A., Rosotti, G. P., Alcalá, J. M., Nisini, B., Lodato, G., Testi, L., Pascucci, I., Hillenbrand, L., Carpenter, J., Scholz, A., Fedele, D., Frasca, A., Mulders, G., Rigliaco, E., Scardoni, C., & Zari, E. 2020, Astronomy and Astrophysics. X-shooter survey of disk accretion in Upper Scorpius. I. Very high accretion rates at age &gt; 5 Myr

Hendler, Nathanial, Pascucci, Ilaria, Pinilla, Paola, Tazzari, Marco, Carpenter, John, Malhotra, Renu, & Testi, Leonardo 2020, The Astrophysical Journal. The Evolution of Dust Disk Sizes from a Homogeneous Analysis of 1-10 Myr old Stars

Moór, Attila, Pawellek, Nicole, Ábrahám, Péter, Kóspál, Ágnes, Vida, Krisztián, Pál, András, Dutrey, Anne, Folco, Emmanuel Di, Hughes, A. Meredith, Kral, Quentin, & Pascucci, Ilaria 2020, The Astronomical Journal. The Big Sibling of AU Mic: A Cold Dust-rich Debris Disk around CP-72 2713 in the β Pic Moving Group

Sanchis, E., Testi, L., Natta, A., Manara, C. F., Ercolano, B., Preibisch, T., Henning, T., Facchini, S., Miotello, A., de Gregorio-Monsalvo, I., Lopez, C., Mužić, K., Pascucci, I., Santamaría-Miranda, A., Scholz, A., Tazzari, M., van Terwisga, S., & Williams, J. P. 2020, Astronomy and Astrophysics. Demographics of disks around young very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs in Lupus (Corrigendum)

Liu, Beibei, Lambrechts, Michiel, Johansen, Anders, Pascucci, Ilaria, & Henning, Thomas 2020, Astronomy and Astrophysics. Pebble-driven planet formation around very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs

Pinilla, Paola, Pascucci, Ilaria, & Marino, Sebastian 2020, Astronomy and Astrophysics. Hints on the origins of particle traps in protoplanetary disks given by the M<SUB>dust</SUB> - M<SUB>⋆</SUB> relation

Sanchis, E., Testi, L., Natta, A., Manara, C. F., Ercolano, B., Preibisch, T., Henning, T., Facchini, S., Miotello, A., de Gregorio-Monsalvo, I., Lopez, C., Mužić, K., Pascucci, I., Santamaría-Miranda, A., Scholz, A., Tazzari, M., van Terwisga, S., & Williams, J. P. 2020, Astronomy and Astrophysics. Demographics of disks around young very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs in Lupus

Mulders, Gijs D., Mordasini, Christoph, Pascucci, Ilaria, Ciesla, Fred J., Emsenhuber, Alexandre, & Apai, Dániel 2019, The Astrophysical Journal. The Exoplanet Population Observation Simulator. II. Population Synthesis in the Era of Kepler

Moór, Attila, Kral, Quentin, Ábrahám, Péter, Kóspál, Ágnes, Dutrey, Anne, Di Folco, Emmanuel, Hughes, A. Meredith, Juhász, Attila, Pascucci, Ilaria, & Pawellek, Nicole 2019, The Astrophysical Journal. New Millimeter CO Observations of the Gas-rich Debris Disks 49 Cet and HD 32297

Pascucci, Ilaria, Mulders, Gijs D., & Lopez, Eric 2019, The Astrophysical Journal. The Impact of Stripped Cores on the Frequency of Earth-size Planets in the Habitable Zone

Long, Feng, Herczeg, Gregory J., Harsono, Daniel, Pinilla, Paola, Tazzari, Marco, Manara, Carlo F., Pascucci, Ilaria, Cabrit, Sylvie, Nisini, Brunella, Johnstone, Doug, Edwards, Suzan, Salyk, Colette, Menard, Francois, Lodato, Giuseppe, Boehler, Yann, Mace, Gregory N., Liu, Yao, Mulders, Gijs D., Hendler, Nathanial, Ragusa, Enrico, Fischer, William J., Banzatti, Andrea, Rigliaco, Elisabetta, van de Plas, Gerrit, Dipierro, Giovanni, Gully-Santiago, Michael, & Lopez-Valdivia, Ricardo 2019, The Astrophysical Journal. Compact Disks in a High-resolution ALMA Survey of Dust Structures in the Taurus Molecular Cloud

Pawellek, Nicole, Moór, Attila, Pascucci, Ilaria, & Krivov, Alexander V. 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Dust spreading in debris discs: do small grains cling on to their birth environment?

Fang, Min, Pascucci, Ilaria, Kim, Jinyoung Serena, & Edwards, Suzan 2019, The Astrophysical Journal. Double-peaked [O I] Profile: A Likely Signature of the Gaseous Ring around KH 15D

Lodato, Giuseppe, Dipierro, Giovanni, Ragusa, Enrico, Long, Feng, Herczeg, Gregory J., Pascucci, Ilaria, Pinilla, Paola, Manara, Carlo F., Tazzari, Marco, Liu, Yao, Mulders, Gijs D., Harsono, Daniel, Boehler, Yann, Ménard, François, Johnstone, Doug, Salyk, Colette, van der Plas, Gerrit, Cabrit, Sylvie, Edwards, Suzan, Fischer, William J., Hendler, Nathan, Nisini, Brunella, Rigliaco, Elisabetta, Avenhaus, Henning, Banzatti, Andrea, & Gully-Santiago, Michael 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The newborn planet population emerging from ring-like structures in discs

Miley, J. M., Panić, O., Haworth, T. J., Pascucci, I., Wyatt, M., Clarke, C., Richards, A. M. S., & Ratzka, T. 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Asymmetric mid-plane gas in ALMA images of HD 100546

Fernandes, Rachel B., Mulders, Gijs D., Pascucci, Ilaria, Mordasini, Christoph, & Emsenhuber, Alexandre 2019, The Astrophysical Journal. Hints for a Turnover at the Snow Line in the Giant Planet Occurrence Rate

Liu, Yao, Pascucci, Ilaria, & Henning, Thomas 2019, Astronomy and Astrophysics. CLIcK: a Continuum and Line fItting Kit for circumstellar disks

Liu, Yao, Dipierro, Giovanni, Ragusa, Enrico, Lodato, Giuseppe, Herczeg, Gregory J., Long, Feng, Harsono, Daniel, Boehler, Yann, Menard, Francois, Johnstone, Doug, Pascucci, Ilaria, Pinilla, Paola, Salyk, Colette, van der Plas, Gerrit, Cabrit, Sylvie, Fischer, William J., Hendler, Nathan, Manara, Carlo F., Nisini, Brunella, Rigliaco, Elisabetta, Avenhaus, Henning, Banzatti, Andrea, & Gully-Santiago, Michael 2019, Astronomy and Astrophysics. Ring structure in the MWC 480 disk revealed by ALMA

Banzatti, Andrea, Pascucci, Ilaria, Edwards, Suzan, Fang, Min, Gorti, Uma, & Flock, Mario 2019, The Astrophysical Journal. Kinematic Links and the Coevolution of MHD Winds, Jets, and Inner Disks from a High-resolution Optical [O I] Survey

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