Probing Dusty Beginnings: Investigating Early Signs of Planet Formation in Young Protoplanetary Disks (<1 Myr) in Taurus

Planets form in disks of gas and dust around young stars, but when and how this process begins remains unclear. Using high-resolution ALMA and VLA observations of all known young embedded (<1 Myr) protoplanetary disks in the Taurus molecular cloud, I study the earliest stages of planet formation. By measuring the total dust and gas content, their spatial distribution, and estimating dust grain sizes, this work provides the first comprehensive view of both dust and gas contents in all young disks within a single star-forming region, offering key insights into how early the building blocks of planets start to form.

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