Abstract

Invited Talk - Plenary

Thursday, 16 September 2021, 12:15

Dust in planet forming disks — What have we learned after 10 years of ALMA?

Til Birnstiel
LMU München

Despite a wealth of observations from exoplanets and our own solar system, fundamental questions remain about how planets form. Most of planet formation happens well hidden in circumstellar disks and only within the last decade, ALMA and SPHERE started to give us glimpses into the detailed structure of disks and their population properties. In this talk I will introduce the key concepts of how the solid material in disks evolves and how we can observe these processes. I will discuss how high resolution studies on the one hand and lower resolution surveys on the other hand can shed some light on the earliest stages of planet formation and which new questions have emerged.