Direct Imaging of Planet Formation

Date:
16
Sunday
January
2022
Lecture / Seminar
Time: 11:00-12:00
Location: https://weizmann.zoom.us/j/7621438333?pwd=c0lpdlQzYSthellXWG9rZnM0ZDRFZz09
Lecturer: Sivan Ginzburg
Organizer: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Contact: dalia.madhala@weizmann.ac.il
Details: California Institute of Technology
Abstract: The vast majority of detected planets are observed indirectly, using their small ... Read more The vast majority of detected planets are observed indirectly, using their small perturbation on the light emitted by the host stars. In recent years, however, the world's largest ground based telescopes have succeeded in directly imaging the light coming from some planets themselves. I will present our comprehensive theory for the mass, luminosity, and spin of gas giant planets during their final stages of formation - when they simultaneously contract and accrete gas from a disk. I will apply this theory to the luminosity and spectrum obtained by the novel direct-imaging technique, highlighting the recently discovered PDS 70 system, where two planets were directly observed during formation for the first time.
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