Kees Dullemond - July 25, 2017

Protoplanetary Disks and Signatures of Planet Formation

During the last few years numerous spectacular observations of protoplanetary
disks have been published, including the famous ALMA map of the multi-ringed
shape of the disk around HL Tau, the lopsided rings of HD 142527 and Oph IRS 48
and the scattered light images by Subaru und VLT showing spiral waves in various
protoplanetary disks. These observations have inspired many people to try to
explain these features in terms of planet-formation-related (or unrelated)
physics. In this talk I am going to talk about a few of such issues, including
dust trapping in rings and vortices, and late-stage cloud capture events.