The pathway to planets: formation of protoplanetary discs

这个项目旨在扩大我们对行星系统如何形成的认识。观测为围绕年轻恒星运行的尘埃气体盘的结构带来了新的见解，但还没有足够的细节来理解行星是如何在其中形成的。这个项目旨在将星盘的结构与星际云核的特征联系起来，这些云核坍缩形成了星盘系统。该项目希望使用创新技术来实现快速坍缩计算，从而将岩心属性映射到盘状结构。预期的结果包括盘状结构的知识，这对解释形成行星系统的观测至关重要。它的好处将是为解释我们今天看到的令人难以置信的各种行星系统所需的理论提供指导。

This project aims to expand our knowledge of how planetary systems are born. Observations are bringing new insight into the structure of discs of dusty gas orbiting young stars, but not in sufficient detail to understand how planets form within them. This project aims to link the structure of discs to the well-characterised interstellar cloud cores that collapse to form star-disc systems. The project aspires to use innovative techniques to enable the rapid collapse calculations needed to map core properties to disc structure. Expected outcomes include knowledge of the disc structures critical to interpreting observations of forming planetary systems. The benefit will be guidance to the theory needed to explain the incredible variety of planetary systems we see today.