ERC Starting Grant · 2019
Planet Evaporation as a Window into Exoplanetary Origins
Modern astronomy has truly entered the exoplanet era. Although our knowledge of what planet formation produces has grown immensely thanks to observational advances, our actual understanding of the physical processes that give rise to planets and planetary systems is limited. We now know most stars are unlike our own Sun, in that they host planets which orbit around their star with periods of months or shorter, yet many have volatile rich atmospheres. These planets must result from a dominant (if not the dominant) mode of planet formation, yet they were completely missing from our planet formation theories a decade ago. Planets which are close to their parent star are extremely vulnerable to…
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