Charles J. Law

Charles J. Law

NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) Sagan Fellow

Publications

Author of 83 publications (refereed or under review), including 16 as first author and 9 as second or third author, which are shown below. A full listing of my publications can be found on ADS.

First Author

  1. Law, C. J., Le Gal, R., Öberg, K. I., et al. 2025. A Submillimeter Survey of CS Excitation in Protoplanetary Disks: Evidence of X-ray-Driven Sulfur Chemistry, ApJ, subm.
  2. Law, C. J., Le Gal, R., Yamato, Y., et al. 2025. A Multi-line Analysis of the Distribution and Excitation of CS and H2CS in the HD 163296 Disk, ApJ, 985, 84
  3. Law, C. J., Zhang Q., Frommer A., et al. 2025. A Wideband Chemical Survey of Massive Young Stellar Objects at Subarcsecond Resolution with the Submillimeter Array, ApJS, 276, 54
  4. Law, C. J., Benisty M., Facchini S., et al. 2024. Mapping the Vertical Gas Structure of the Planet-hosting PDS 70 Disk, ApJ, 964, 190.
  5. Law, C. J., Alarcón, F., Cleeves, L. I., et al., 2023. C I Traces the Disk Atmosphere in the IM Lup Protoplanetary Disk, ApJL, 959, L27
  6. Law, C. J., Booth, A. S., Öberg, K. I., et al. 2023. SO and SiS Emission Tracing an Embedded Planet and Compact 12CO and 13CO Counterparts in the HD 169142 Disk, ApJL, 952, L19
  7. Law, C. J., Teague, R., Öberg, K. I., et al. 2023. Mapping Protoplanetary Disk Vertical Structure with CO Isotopologue Line Emission, ApJ, 948, 60
  8. Law, C. J., Crystian, S., Teague, R., et al., 2022. CO Line Emission Surfaces and Vertical Structure in Mid-Inclination Protoplanetary Disks, ApJ, 932, 114
  9. Law, C. J., Loomis, R. A., Teague, R., et al., 2021. Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS) III. Characteristics of Radial Chemical Substructures, ApJS, 257, 3
  10. Law, C. J., Teague, R., Loomis, R. A., et al., 2021. Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS) IV. Emission Surfaces and Vertical Distribution of Molecules, ApJS, 257, 4
  11. Law, C. J., Zhang, Q., Öberg, K. I., et al., 2021, Subarcsecond Imaging of the Complex Organic Chemistry in Massive Star-Forming Region G10.6-0.4, ApJ, 909, 214
  12. Law, C. J., Milisavljevic, D., Patnaude, D. J., et al., 2020, Three-dimensional Kinematic Reconstruction of the Optically-Emitting, High-Velocity, Oxygen-Rich Ejecta of Supernova Remnant N132D, ApJ, 894, 73
  13. Law, C. J., Zhang, Q., Ricci, L., et al., 2018, Submillimeter Array Observations of Extended CO (J = 2 - 1) Emission in Interacting Galaxy NGC 3627, ApJ, 865, 17
  14. Law, C. J., Öberg, K. I., Bergner, et al., D. 2018, Carbon Chain Molecules Toward Embedded Low-Mass Protostars, ApJ, 863, 88
  15. Law, C. J., Ricci, L., Andrews, S. M., et al., 2017, An SMA Continuum Survey of Circumstellar Disks in the Serpens Star-Forming Region, AJ, 154, 255
  16. Law, C. J., Milisavljevic, D., Crabtree, K. N., et al., 2017, TRES Survey of Variable Diffuse Interstellar Bands, MNRAS, 470, 2835

Second or Third Author

  1. Gresko, K., Law, C. J., et al., 2025. SMA Observations Reveal Abundant HNC Chemistry in Transition Disks, ApJ, subm.
  2. Maher, T., Law, C. J., et al., 2025. Radially-Extended C I Emission in the IM Lup Protoplanetary Disk Uncovered with Matched Filtering, RNAAS, 9, 205
  3. Yoshida, T., Nomura, H., Law, C. J., et al., 2024. Outflow Driven by a Protoplanet Embedded in the TW Hya Disk, ApJL, 971, L15
  4. Booth, A. S., Law, C. J., Temmink, M., et al., 2023. Tracing snowlines and C/O ratio in a planet-hosting disk: ALMA molecular line observations towards the HD 169142 disk, A&A, 678, 146
  5. Sturm, J. A., McClure M. K., Law, C. J., et al., 2023. Modeling the edge-on HH 48 NE protoplanetary disk I. Geometry and stellar parameters, A&A, 677, 17
  6. Muñoz-Romero, C. E., Öberg, K. I., Law, C. J., et al., 2022. Cold Deuterium Fractionation in the Nearest Planet-Forming Disk, ApJ, 943, 35
  7. Teague, R., Law, C. J., Huang, J., et al., 2021. disksurf: Extracting the 3D Structure of Protoplanetary Disks, JOSS, 6, 67
  8. Zhang, K., Booth, A., Law, C. J., et al., 2021. Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS) V. CO Gas Distributions, ApJS, 257, 5
  9. Guzmán, V. V., Bergner, J. B., Law, C. J., et al., 2021. Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS) VI. Distribution of the Small Organics HCN, C2H, and H2CO, ApJS, 257, 6