Kóspál Lab

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ERC Starting Grant · 2016

Structured ACCREtion Disks: initial conditions for planet formation in the time domain

In this ERC Starting Grant, I propose an ambitious research program to target important challenges in predicting realistic initial conditions for the planet formation process. I will perform a large systematic study of the accretion-driven eruptions of newborn stars, and evaluate their influence on the structure, composition, and chemistry of the terrestrial planet forming zone in the circumstellar disk. The research will focus on three main questions: - How does the mass accretion proceed in realistic, structured, non-axisymmetric disks? - What physical mechanisms explain the accretion-driven eruptions? - What is the effect of the eruptions on the disk? My new research group will study…

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