Imaging the Key Stages of Planet Formation

John Monnier (1) , Gioia Rau , Joel Sanchez Bermudez , Sam Ragland , Rachel Akeson , Gaspard Duchene , Gerard van Belle , Ryan Norris , Kathryn Gordon , Denis Defrère , Jacques Kluska , Stephen Ridgway , Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin , Narsireddy Anugu , Nicholas Scott , Stephen Kane , Noel D. Richardson , Zsolt Regaly , Zhaohuan Zhu , Gautam Vasisht , Keivan G. Stassun , Sean Andrews , Sylvestre Lacour , Gerd Weigelt , Neal Turner , Fred C. Adams , Douglas Gies , Nuria Calvet , Catherine Espaillat , Rafael Millan-Gabet , Tyler Gardner , Chris Packham , Mario Gai , Quentin Kral , Jean-Philippe Berger , Hendrik Linz , Lucia Klarmann , Matthew Bate , Jaehan Bae , Rebeca Garcia Lopez , Antonio Garufi , Fabien Baron , Mihkel Kama , David Wilner , Lee Hartmann , Makoto Kishimoto , Johan Olofsson , Melissa Mcclure , Chris Haniff , Sebastian Hoenig , Michael Line , Romain G. Petrov (2) , Michael Smith , Theo ten Brummelaar , Matthew de Furio , Maria Koutoulaki , Stephen Rinehart , David Leisawitz , William Danchi , Daniel Huber , Ke Zhang , Benjamin Pope , Michael Ireland , Stefan Kraus , Andrea Isella , Benjamin Setterholm , Russel White

1 University of Michigan [Ann Arbor]
2 LAGRANGE - Joseph Louis LAGRANGE

In this white paper, we explore how higher angular resolution beyond ALMA and 8m-class telescopes can extend our understanding of the key stages of planet formation, to resolve accreting circumplanetary disks themselves, and to watch planets forming in situ for the nearest star-forming regions.

Domaines: Planétologie et astrophysique de la terre [astro-ph.EP]; Instrumentation et méthodes pour l'astrophysique [astro-ph.IM]

John Monnier, Gioia Rau, Joel Sanchez Bermudez, Sam Ragland, Rachel Akeson, et al.. Imaging the Key Stages of Planet Formation. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 2019. ⟨hal-03058933⟩