When:
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
Where: Technological Institute, F160, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Pamela Villalovoz
(847) 491-3644
Group: Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Category: Academic
Title: Origins of Super-Earths in Inner Solar Systems
Speaker: Rebekah Dawson
Host: Wen-fai Fong
Abstract: Over the past decade, exoplanet surveys have discovered that many other solar systems teem with super-Earths on sub-Mercury orbits. A major open question is whether these super-Earths formed on their observed close-in orbits or formed at a wider separations and migrated in. I will present recent work on what the orbital and compositional properties of super-Earths in inner solar systems can reveal about super-Earths’ origins and more generally about the physical processes driving the formation and evolution of planetary systems.
Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics