1. ALMA Observations of the Epoch of Planet Formation
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Andrews, Sean M., Huang, Jane, Pérez, Laura M., Isella, Andrea, Dullemond, Cornelis P., Kurtovic, Nicolás T., Guzmán, Viviana V., Carpenter, John M., Wilner, David J., Zhang, Shangjia, Zhu, Zhaohuan, Birnstiel, Tilman, Bai, Xue-Ning, Benisty, Myriam, Hughes, A. Meredith, Öberg, Karin I., and Ricci, Luca
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Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics - Abstract
Planetary systems form in the discs of gas and dust that orbit young stars. In the past few years, observations of these discs at (sub-)millimetre wavelengths with very fine angular resolution have started to uncover the hallmarks of small-scale substructures in the spatial distributions of their pebble-sized particles. These are some of the fundamental signatures of the planet formation epoch, since they trace localised concentrations of material that facilitate the formation of much larger planetary building blocks, and may themselves be created by young planets interacting with their birth environments., Published in The Messenger vol. 174, pp. 19-23, December 2018.
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- 2018
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