ERC Starting Grant · 2021
Rebuilding the foundations of planet formation: proto-planetary disc evolution
With thousands of exoplanets known, we have truly entered the exoplanet era. Explaining the huge diversity of observed exoplanetary systems remains however a big challenge. The only way we have to study planet formation is to study the environments in which they form, proto-planetary discs: to understand planets, we have to understand discs and the physical processes happening in them. The field of proto-planetary discs is currently being shaken by the crumbling of viscous theory, the traditional paradigm used to describe how discs evolve in time. The paradigm relied on the presence of turbulence, which affects a myriad of processes of planet formation. The crumbling of viscous theory thus…
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