A `Rosetta Stone’ for Protoplanetary Disks: The Synergy of Multi-Wavelength Observations

  • Sicilia-Aguilar, A. (SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, KY16 9SS, St Andrews, UK);
  • Banzatti, A. (Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA);
  • Carmona, A. (Université de Toulouse, UPS-OMP, IRAP, 14 avenue E. Belin, Toulouse, F-31400, France);
  • Stolker, T. (Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands);
  • Kama, M. (Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, PO Box 9513, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands);
  • Mendigutía, I. (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK);
  • Garufi, A. (Universidad Autonónoma de Madrid, Dpto. Física Teórica, Módulo 15, Facultad de Ciencias, Campus de Cantoblanco, E-28049 Madrid, Spain);
  • Flaherty, K. (Van Vleck Observatory, Astronomy Department, Wesleyan University, 96 Foss Hill Drive, Middletown, CT 06459);
  • van der Marel, N. (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822-1839, USA);
  • Greaves, J. (School of Physics & Astronomy, Cardiff University, 4 The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK)

Abstract

Recent progress in telescope development has brought us different ways to observe protoplanetary disks: interferometers, space missions, adaptive optics, polarimetry, and time- and spectrally-resolved data. While the new facilities have changed the way we can tackle open problems in disk structure and evolution, there is a substantial lack of interconnection between different observing communities. Here, we explore the complementarity of some of the state-of-the-art observing techniques, and how they can be brought together to understand disk dispersal and planet formation.

 

Publication:
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Volume 33, id.e059 31 pp.
Pub Date:
December 2016
DOI:
10.1017/pasa.2016.56 
arXiv:
arXiv:1611.01798 
Bibcode:
2016PASA…33…59S 
Keywords:
  • Astronomical instrumentation;
  • methods and techniques;
  • methods: observational;
  • stars: formation;
  • protoplanetary disks;
  • Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
  • Astrophysics – Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
E-Print Comments:
Accepted for publication in PASA. 37 pages, 9 figures, 1 table. Revised version: corrected problem in Fig 2; doi:10.1017/pasa.2016.56

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