Department of Astronomy Center for Radiophysics & Space Research

Probing the Origin of Planetary Systems with Millimeter-Wave Interferometry

10Thursday, Apr. 10
John Carpenter - Caltech
4:00 PM Space Sciences Building

Most young, low-mass stars are surrounded by accretion disks. The increasing
number of planets detected around main-sequence stars strongly suggests that
planets will form in many, if not all, of these disks. Millimeter-wave
interferometry is now providing sensitive, high angular resolution observations
of gas and dust on disks with the broad goal of understanding the planet
formation process. In this talk, I present recent observational results from
CARMA, ALMA, and the Jansky VLA on the structure of disks, the growth of
solids, and disk evolution.

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Carpenter