Title: SPIDI: the search for disk-embedded, inner planetary systems
Speaker: Jérôme Bouvier
Affiliation: Grenoble Alpes University
Time: Thursday 5 May 2022, 1400 to 1500
Location: 90103Å and also online at https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/62091586806
Abstract:
I shall review the motivations and recent progress that led to the "Star-Inner Disk-Planets Interactions" (SPIDI) project, whose long-term goal is to search for nascent inner planetary systems still embedded in the circumstellar disks of young stars. The challenge is to isolate a planetary signal buried in the large variability of young stars induced by the magnetic star-disk interaction. I will thus review our current understanding of the magnetospheric accretion process in young stars and present a few directions we might want to explore towards the goal of detecting and characterizing disk-embedded inner planets.