Timescales of Disk Evolution and Planet Formation
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
It has been suggested that circumstellar disks evolve from dense, actively accreting structures to low-mass, replenished remnants. During this transition, grains may assemble into planetesimals, or the disk may be cleared by newborn planets. Recently identified nearby groups of young stars provide valuable laboratories for probing disk evolution. I discuss the properties of dust disks in the TW Hydrae Association and the MBM 12 cloud, and compare the results to other studies of disk evolution and planet formation timescales.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0011282,
title = {Timescales of Disk Evolution and Planet Formation},
author = {Ray Jayawardhana},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0011282},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
3 pages, to appear in "Planetary Systems in the Universe: Observation, Formation and Evolution", eds. A. Penny, P. Artymowicz, A.-M. Lagrange and S Russell, ASP Conf. Series, in press