Protoplanetary disks are circumstellar disks of dust and gas around young (Myr-old) stars and the site of active planet formation.
Ongoing 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. 2018, Banzatti 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. 2016, Hendler et al. 2017, Long et al. 2017, Manara et al. 2017, Mulders et al. 2017, Long et al. 2018, Hendler et al. 2020
For Past Projects see the following link