"Planet Formation Insights from Debris Disk Dust and Gas"
- Event Type
- Seminar/Symposium
- Sponsor
- Department of Astronomy
- Location
- 134 Astronomy
- Virtual
- Join online
- Date
- Oct 10, 2023 3:45 pm
- Speaker
- Meredith Hughes, Wesleyan University
- Contact
- Rebecca Bare
- rsbare@illinois.edu
- Phone
- 217-265-8226
- Views
- 135
- Originating Calendar
- Astronomy Colloquium Speaker Calendar
The holy grail of planet formation research is to connect the conditions for planet formation in young planet-forming disks with the mature planetary systems observed by exoplanet surveys. Debris disks probe a key intermediate stage, with ages between ~10Myr and 1Gyr. I will discuss the insights that debris disks provide into the structure and evolution of planetary systems, with an emphasis on gas and dust imaging at millimeter wavelengths.