ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Revealing Accreting Planets Through Observations and Refined simulations
Recent multi-wavelength observations disclosed a groundbreaking discovery—an accreting giant planet surrounded by a circumplanetary disk within the gap of the young circumstellar disk PDS 70. We now witness planet formation, one of the forefront themes in modern astrophysics, in action. With over 5,000 detected planetary systems, we have learned that nearly every star in our galaxy hosts at least one planet. The crucial insight into how these planets form lies in the conjunction of theoretical studies and observations of magnetized dusty accretion disks - rotating masses of gas and dust around freshly formed stars. Global magneto-hydrodynamical disk models reveal gas evolution,…
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