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"Planet Formation Insights from Debris Disk Dust and Gas"

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Department of Astronomy
Location
134 Astronomy
Virtual
wifi event
Date
Oct 10, 2023   3:45 pm  
Speaker
Meredith Hughes, Wesleyan University
Contact
Rebecca Bare
E-Mail
rsbare@illinois.edu
Phone
217-265-8226
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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.  

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