Sarah Dodson-Robinson

Origins of Giant Planets, Volume 1 (eBook, ePUB)

Disks, dust, and planetesimals

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Origins of Giant Planets is a comprehensive overview of giant planet formation aimed at new researchers in the field. With the capability of the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to push the mass limit for direct imaging of young planets down to Saturn's scale, as well as its unprecedented ability to image indirect indicators of forming giant planets, observations within the next ten years are likely to bring meaningful constraints to models of giant planet formation. These books will delineate the parts of giant planet formation theory that are well understood and the parts that still have significant uncertainty.

Volume one covers protoplanetary disk theory, dynamics of planet-forming dust and ice, collisional grain growth, and planetesimal formation. All theoretical models are benchmarked against empirical knowledge gleaned from disk observations, laboratory research, meteoritics, and solar system dynamics. After reading this book, students and postdocs will be ready to start their own original research into planet formation. Origins of Giant Planets is also a useful reference for senior researchers seeking interdisciplinary connections between astrophysics, planetary science, and cosmochemistry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Institute of Physics Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780750321365
• Artikelnr.: 63262949

Autorenporträt

Sarah Dodson-Robinson received her PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics from University of California at Santa Cruz in 2008, then took a Spitzer Postdoctoral Fellowship at NASA Exoplanet Science Institute. She is now an Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at University of Delaware. In 2013, she won the American Astronomical Society's Annie Jump Cannon award for her contributions to the study of planet formation. Dr. Dodson-Robinson conducts numerical simulations of the chemical and dynamical evolution of planet-forming disks and participates in observational studies of debris disks. She also develops and tests methods for distinguishing exoplanet discoveries from stellar noise.