Colloquium by Adam Kraus, UT Austin
The past thirty years have seen parallel revolutions in the discovery of thousands of planetary systems (at old ages) and planet-forming protostars (at young ages), broadly illustrating the initial and final boundary conditions for planet formation around individual stars. However, the story remains more nebulous for the processes that evolve populations from initial to final states, how individual outcomes trace back to individual initial conditions, and what complications are introduced by the binary star systems that we know are ubiquitous in the Milky Way. I'll describe ongoing projects and recent results from my research group that span the evolutionary sequence of protostars, protoplanetary disks, and juvenile and mature planets, with a special emphasis on planets in binary star systems.
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Host: Jane Huang