18 février 2020Dissecting the nearest known protoplanetary disks (and their host stars) using radio through X-ray observations

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Le 21 octobre 2016
De 10h30 à 12h00
Joel Kastner, Rochester Institute of Technology

I outline the (short) history of the study of the nearest known young stars that are the potential hosts of orbiting, planet-forming disks and newborn planetary systems, and summarize the methodology involved in (and accelerating pace of) the identification of such systems. I then focus on the handful of increasingly well-studied « young solar system analogs » that lie within ~100 pc, with particular emphasis on the new discovery space that is now being opened by subarcsecond-resolution imaging with ALMA and extreme AO cameras on large ground-based optical/IR telescopes.