The discovery of the first planet orbiting another sun-like star has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2019. Despite the thousands of exoplanets know today, the processes involved in building planets out of interstellar matter remain mysterious. Recent years have also brought tremendous progress in observational techniques that continuously revolutionize our understanding of the accretion disks within which planets are being built as we watch. This lecture will cover the various aspects and stages of building planets:
Topics include:
- Overview: Disks & Exoplanets, Exoplanet Detection Methods
- Information from our Solar System
- Disk Formation and Disk Structure
- Disk Evolution - Viscous Theory, Disk Winds, and Dissipation
- Dust in Protoplanetary Disks
- Planetesimal Formation
- Terrestrial Planet Formation
- Formation of Giant Planets
- Planet Migration
- Evolution of Planetary Systems
- Observations of Protoplanetary Disks
- Trainer/in: Fabian Binkert
- Trainer/in: Tilman Birnstiel