ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Unveiling the infancy of planetary systems
Observational campaigns are revealing that planet formation is an extremely efficient mechanism, and that at the same time it leads to a wide diversity in exoplanet properties. While high resolution images of protoplanetary disks show potential signatures of planet-disk interactions, an observational characterization of directly imaged protoplanets interacting with their natal environment is still lacking, limiting our understanding of the planet formation mechanisms. Thanks to the revolutionary capabilities of the ALMA interferometer, and the advent of upcoming infrared facilities such as JWST, the time is ripe to finally detect planets in the act of formation, and observe how their bulk…
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