A `Rosetta Stone' for Protoplanetary Disks: The Synergy of Multi-Wavelength Observations
Abstract
Recent progress in telescope development has brought us different ways to observe protoplanetary disks: interferometers, space missions, adaptive optics, polarimetry, and time- and spectrally-resolved data. While the new facilities have changed the way we can tackle open problems in disk structure and evolution, there is a substantial lack of interconnection between different observing communities. Here, we explore the complementarity of some of the state-of-the-art observing techniques, and how they can be brought together to understand disk dispersal and planet formation.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
- Pub Date:
- December 2016
- DOI:
- 10.1017/pasa.2016.56
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1611.01798
- Bibcode:
- 2016PASA...33...59S
- Keywords:
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- Astronomical instrumentation;
- methods and techniques;
- methods: observational;
- stars: formation;
- protoplanetary disks;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Accepted for publication in PASA. 37 pages, 9 figures, 1 table. Revised version: corrected problem in Fig 2