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Grain growth, planet formation and debris disks: Grain growth, planet formation, and debris disks
- Troels Haugbølle (Niels Bohr Institute)
Grain growth, planet formation and debris disks: Grain growth, planet formation, and debris disks
- Troels Haugbølle (Niels Bohr Institute)
The evolution of the solid particle component of protoplanetary disks from the formation of the disk into the debris disk phase holds important keys about the planet formation process. I will cover the some aspects of the basic physics and recent developments in the theory of dust growth, dust dynamics, planet formation and debris disks.
Observations at sub-mm/mm wavelengths allow us to probe the solids in the interior of protoplanetary discs, where the bulk of the dust is located and planet formation is expected to occur. However, the actual size of dust grains and the physical properties of the disc interior are still largely unknown due to the observational limits of past sub-mm/mm studies. ALMA, thanks to its exquisite...