Project description
Probing the interaction of newborn planets with their surroundings
Protoplanetary disks are rotating disks of dense gas and dust surrounding a newly formed star and are the prerequisites for the formation of planetary systems around stars. High-resolution telescopes and instruments such as the Atacama Large Millimeter Array and the SHPERE instrument installed in the Very Large Telescope can probe the star formation regions with unprecedented spatial resolution. Funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the DUSTBUSTERS project aims to strengthen collaboration between researchers in the field based in the United States, Europe, Chile and Australia. The overarching goal is to develop advanced algorithms to study long-lasting problems such as the interaction of newborn planets with the gas and dust surrounding them.
Objective
Planet formation is a widespread by-product of the process of star formation itself and occurs within relatively thin and dense protostellar discs made of gas and dust that orbit the newborn star. Such discs can now be probed with unprecedented detail thanks to high resolution telescopes and instruments, such as the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) at sub-millimeter wavelegths or the SPHERE instrument at the Very large telescope (VLT) in the near infrared, which are both capable of probing nearby star formation regions with a spatial resolution of a few astronomical units.
The overall aim of this project is to to strengthen the collaboration of groups located in Europe, USA, Chile and Australia - many of them already collaborating actively - in order to (1) develop and use suitable numerical algorithms and techniques to address key unsolved issues related to the interaction of newborn planets with the gas and dust environment in which they are born and (2) to compare such models with the most advanced observations of protostellar discs, obtained with high resolution telescopes in the IR and sub-mm.
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.3. - Stimulating innovation by means of cross-fertilisation of knowledge
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MSCA-RISE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018
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20122 Milano
Italy
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