Splinter Meeting PlanetFormation
Protoplanetary disks and planet formation at high-angular resolution
Time: CEST (UTC+2)
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Convenor(s): Lucas Labadie; Sebastian Wolf; Myriam Benisty; Joanna Drazkowska
University of Cologne; University of Kiel; Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg; Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen
As our knowledge of exoplanetary properties progresses, it becomes increasingly important to understand how planetary architectures depend on initial conditions, which requires observing the native protoplanetary disks. Our understanding of planet formation conditions and scenarios in young stellar objects' protoplanetary disks has witnessed major advances in the last decade. In particular, the availability of new instrumentation has strongly enriched the field in terms of high-sensitivity, high-angular resolution and wavelength coverage. Covering the optical to mm wavelength range, the VLT / VLTI and ALMA have revealed complex and diverse structures, truly revolutionizing our view of protoplanetary disks. With the more recent advent of JWST, important clues are found concerning fundamental disk properties. In the near future, the ELT will deliver disk images with unprecedented resolution in the infrared regime, while the VLTI will be able to probe more efficiently the population of T Tauri stars. Moreover, the Square Kilometer Array will soon allow us to peer into disk regions that so far remain opaque at higher frequencies. In this rich context of observational capabilities, this splinter will cover new observational results on protoplanetary disks relevant to disk structures and evolution, star-disk and disk-planet interactions, and dust and gas chemistry in disks, as well as most recent theoretical tests of planet formation scenarios. The discussion of future prospects in this research field is also covered in this splinter.
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