Seminar: SPIDI: the search for disk-embedded, inner planetary systems

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.

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Kim Pouilly will be the chairperson. There will be lunch with the speaker before the seminar (leaving at around 12:25). There will be fika in the astronomy corridor (Hus 9, Plan 5) after the seminar.