Past projects

The Evolution of Disk Winds – NSF funded project to empirically establish how disk winds evolve using high-resolution optical and infrared spectroscopy. Results published in: Fang et al. 2018Banzatti et al. 2019. Fully reduced spectra are available here

Earths in Other Solar Systems (EOS) – NASA funded astrobiology research program with the main goal of understanding how and where habitable, Earth-like planets form.  See the EOS website for additional information and major results

SLICK – Scaling Laws in Circumstellar disKs – NSF funded project to homogeneously determine fundamental star and disk properties, including stellar accretion rates and disk masses and sizes. Results published in: Pascucci et al. 2016Hendler et al. 2017Long et al. 2017Manara et al. 2017Mulders et al. 2017Long et al. 2018Hendler et al. 2020

Disk Winds and the Clearing of Protoplanetary Disks  – NSF supported Collaborative research with U. Gorti to understand the role of winds in dispersing protoplanetary material. Results published in: Simon et al. 2016Pascucci et al. 2015Pascucci et al. 2014Rigliaco et al. 2013

The Masses of Brown Dwarf Disks – NASA/JPL supported (Herschel Space Observatory). Results published in: Hendler et al. 2017

Warm Gas in the Planet-forming Region of Disks – NASA supported project to re-reduce Spitzer/IRS spectra of protoplanetary disks and characterize the gas content in the planet-forming region of such disks. Results published in: Rigliaco et al. 2014 and Pascucci et al. 2013 

Understanding the Origin of Transition Disks via Disk Mass Measurements – NASA/JPL supported (Herschel Space Observatory). Results published in Keane et al. 2014

Water Transport and Dispersal of Gas in Protoplanetary Disks – NSF supported. Results published in: Alexander et al. 2014 (Protostars and Planets VI review chapter); Alexander & Pascucci 2012Fedele et al. 2011Pascucci & Sterzik 2009Pascucci et al. 2011Pascucci et al. 2012, Sacco et al. 2012

Planet Formation in Binary Systems –  NASA/JPL supported (Spitzer Space Telescope).  Results published in Pascucci et al. 2008