Circumstellar disks, planet formation, and ALMA

Author

Andrews, Sean M.

Author_Institution

Smithsonian Astrophys. Obs., Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

13-20 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) interferometer project will being science operations in 2011. With its high angular resolution and sensitive continuum and spectroscopic capabilities from 84-850 GHz, it will dramatically advance our observational understanding of the planet formation process by providing unprecedented measurements of the physical conditions in the birth sites of planets, the gas and dust disks around young stars. I will present an overview of a few key ALMA experiments that can be used to address some fundamental issues related to the structure and evolution of these protoplanetary disks, as well as a new technique that may provide unique, new access to characterize extremely young systems of exoplanets.

Keywords

circumstellar matter; extrasolar planets; interferometry; pre-main-sequence stars; radioastronomical techniques; radiotelescopes; AD 2011; ALMA experiments; ALMA interferometer project; Atacama Large Millimeter Array; circumstellar disks; dust disks; exoplanet formation; exoplanetary birth sites; frequency 84 GHz to 850 GHz; gas disks; protoplanetary disk evolution; protoplanetary disk structure; young stars; Arrays; Data mining; Extrasolar planets; Extraterrestrial measurements; Frequency measurement; Imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, 2011 XXXth URSI

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5117-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/URSIGASS.2011.6051251

Filename

6051251