Planet Formation at Solar System Scales with the James Webb Space Telescope

使用詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜观察太阳系行星的形成

• 批准号: DP230101439
• 负责人: Dr Benjamin Pope
• 金额: $ 27.51万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2023-07-31 至 2026-07-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP230101439
• 关键词: Planet; Formation; Solar; System; Scales

Planetary systems like our own form within vast disks of primordial gas and dust around newborn stars. This project will observe such disks spanning a range of ages with the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal the detailed in-situ physics of planet-forming disks themselves. We will deliver the sharpest-ever infrared images in astronomy, exploiting the only Australian-designed instrument on the spacecraft: the Aperture Masking Interferometer. This yields new physics for actively growing protoplanets, carved rings and gaps in disks, and gravitationally sculpted patterns of leftover cometary debris. Confronting state-of-the-art models with these data will immediately yield profound insights into planetary system formation, including our own.

在新生儿周围的原始气体和灰尘的巨大磁盘中，行星系统像我们自己的形式一样。该项目将与詹姆斯·韦伯（James Webb）太空望远镜一起观察这些磁盘，这些磁盘涵盖了各个年龄的磁盘，以揭示“星球形成磁盘”本身的详细原位物理。我们将在天文学中传递最清晰的红外图像，利用航天器上唯一的澳大利亚设计的仪器：孔掩蔽干涉仪。这为磁盘中的原始星体，雕刻环和缝隙以及剩余的彗星碎片的重力雕刻模式产生了新的物理学。与这些数据相遇的最新模型将立即对包括我们自己的行星系统形成，对行星系统形成产生深刻的见解。