Scientific Seminars

Warped discs as a pathway for planet formation

Rebecca Nealon
University of Warwick

2025-02-10    13:30    Dip. di Fisica, UNIMI, Via Celoria - - Aula Caldirola

The last decade of observations of protoplanetary discs have shown a wealth of substructure including rings, gaps and spiral arms. Perhaps most intriguingly these observations also revealed the importance of the 3D structure of discs, where some discs are observed to have orientations that change as a function of radius or may also be broken. These so called ‘warped discs’ have challenged our understanding of disc evolution, and recent work has shown that these discs form a significant fraction of the disc population. In this talk I will discuss the connection between warped discs and the onset of planet formation, a major open question in planetary science.