When:
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
Where: Technological Institute, Physics and Astronomy, room F160, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Monica Brown
(847) 491-7650
Group: Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Category: Academic
Title: Circumstellar Disks and Young Stars: Tracing the Formation of Planetary Systems
Speaker: Alycia Weinberger, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Abstract: The initially ubiquitous disks of gas and dust around young stars eventually form the diversity of observed mature planetary systems. I will present my recent work using high angular resolution imaging and spectrophotometry from the Hubble Space Telescope, Magellan Adaptive Optics system, and ALMA to show the structure and compositions of disks. I will also present recent results from the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer; our HOSTS survey is searching for the incidence of tenuous disks at the level of the solar system's zodiacal light.
Host: Fred Rasio
Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, colloquium