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诞生的认识。观测正在为围绕年轻恒星运行的尘埃气体的圆盘结构带来新的见解，但还没有足够的细节来理解行星是如何在其中形成的。该项目旨在将星盘的结构与特征良好的星际云核联系起来，星际云核坍塌形成星盘系统。该项目渴望使用创新技术来实现将岩心特性与磁盘结构相对应所需的快速坍塌计算。预期结果包括对解释行星系统形成观测至关重要的盘状结构的知识。它的好处将是对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的指导。

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.