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| Paper: |
Young Stellar Disks as the Sites of Planetary Evolution |
| Volume: |
294, Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets |
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253 |
| Authors: |
Weinberger, A. J.; Becklin, E. E.; Schneider, G. |
| Abstract: |
The physical conditions of circumstellar disks including their temperature profiles and compositions as a function of distance from their central stars will be influenced and modified by nascent planets within them. Dynamically molded disks may be the best way to infer the presence of planets around stars for which direct planet-finding techniques do not apply. Disks around three stars of age 5-12 Myr -- HD 141569A, HR 4796A, and Beta Pictoris, illustrate what we can learn about disk composition and how embryonic planets may be sculpting their environments. |
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