Awardee and Speaker: ILARIA PASCUCCI, PH.D. Professor of Planetary Sciences, From Planet-forming Disks to Exoplanets: Reconstructing the Paths to Habitable Worlds
When
How did our Solar System and other planetary systems form? Which systems are most likely to host habitable worlds? These are critical questions as we plan for missions capable of detecting Earth analogues and search for atmospheric signatures of life. I will discuss how linking multi-wavelength observations of disks around young stars and exoplanet demographics sheds light on these questions. First, I will present evidence for a dominant mechanism to form giant planets. Then, I will discuss an ongoing effort to establish how the most common planets, sub-Neptunes and super-Earths, form. I will conclude by exploring how upcoming telescopic observations will advance these studies and their role in reconstructing the paths to habitable worlds.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
2:00p.m. (Arizona)
Kuiper Space Sciences Room 308
1629 E. University Blvd. or Zoom webinar
Reception to follow lecture.
- Register for Zoom webinar. A recording of the lecture will be made permanently available on the LPL YouTube channel.
- Read more about Professor Ilaria Pascucci.
This award is funded through the Professor Leon and Pauline Blitzer Teaching Award Fund held at the Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona.
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