Alycia J. Weinberger - Carnegie DTM Catching Planets in Formation with GMT What sets the stellar/substellar mass function and how universal is it? Do all stars form planets and if not, why not? What causes the diversity of planetary systems? S P E C I M E N S P E C I M E N
Catching Planets in Formation with GMT. What sets the stellar/substellar mass function and how universal is it? Do all stars form planets and if not, why not? What causes the diversity of planetary systems?. SPECIMEN. Nearby Star Forming Regions. Good News: Most are in the South - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Alycia J. Weinberger -
Carnegie DTM
Catching Planets in Formation with GMT
What sets the stellar/substellar mass function and how universal is it?Do all stars form planets and if not, why not?What causes the diversity of planetary systems?
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Nearby Star Forming Regions
Good News: Most are in the South Bad News: All are >100 pc away
Ophiuchus -24 120 pc ≤1 Myr Lupus -38 100 pc ≤ 1 Myr Corona Aust -37 170 pc ≤ 1 Myr Chamaeleon -77 170 pc 2.5 Myr Upper Sco -30 140 pc 5 Myr
4 AU at 150 pc = 27 mas (separate “inner” and “outer” Solar System)
Diffraction limit (/D) of GMT at 1.6 m is 13 mas
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106
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yrs
CAI /ChondruleFormation
Moonforming
Impact (30+ Myr)
Current age of the Sun:
4.5x109 yrs.
Late Heavy Bombardment
(600 Myr)
Star-formation to solid formation
Massive, gas-rich disk
Planetesimal dominated disk
Dust / planet dominated disk
Gas RemovalGiant planets
form
Terrestrial planets
form
Planetary Formation Timescales
Astronomer’s t0
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• Substantial mismatch between predicted and observed distribution of exoplanets.
• Major uncertainties:• How do gas-giant planets form.• How much do planets migrate.• Are there many habitable (water, etc) planets.
•Need to extend observational phase space:• Probe lower masses.• Detect very young planets.• Determine composition.
Main Questions
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Disks: How to make, compose and possibly destroy planets
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Watching planet formation
335 yr
339 yr
346 yr
If planets form by gravitational instability (Boss 1997), spiral arms in disk may be observable in scattered light.
Need high contrast in near-infrared: 10-7 to 10-9
Synergy with ALMA
(Jang-Condell & Boss 2007)
10 mas 30 mas
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Where is ice line / where is the water?
Giant planets may form more efficiently outside the ice-line
Water-rich planetesimals from outside the ice-line may deliver water to dry inner planets
Salyk et al. 2008, ApJLNIRSPEC, R~25,000
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Imaging Ices
(Inoue et al. 2008)
Imaging of scattering from water ice in disks
mJy/sq.arcsec
(Honda et al. 2009)
HD 142527
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What are gas densities in planet region?
“Spectroastrometry” Analogous to centroiding to
0.01 pixel Find gas within 1/100 of a
spatial resolution element (~0.3 mas for VLT, 0.1 mas for GMT)
Requires S/N>100 on continuum and resolving line kinematically
Need aperture for low line flux sources: detections are 10-16 - 10-17 W/m2
Need excellent calibration in high continuum/line sources
Fomalhaut planet appears dominated by a scattered light disk. Could learnabout both.
(Kalas et al. 2008)
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Detecting Planets in Debris Disks
Figure Credit: Chris Stark (U MD)
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Uses of 1st Generation Instruments for star and planet formation studies
•GMTNIRS - Probing stellar astrophysics, disk kinematics and disk and even planet composition, radial velocity studies•Tiger - Imaging disks and planets in disks, composition•GMTIFS - Imaging young planets, disks•GMTNIRS / GMACS - Studying free floating planets and brown dwarfs in star forming regions•GCLEF - Debris disk gas, radial velocity studies
GMT will enable many creative projects not envisioned yet and like each generation of large telescope, enable qualitative leaps in measurement ability.
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Stellar and Disk Co-Evolution
(Tom Greene)
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Embedded protostar with disk
1 100 Log() [m]
Log
(F
lux
Den
sity
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Flat spectrum and/or “Class I”
Log
(F
lux
Den
sity
)
Class II
Want to learn simultaneously about the star and its disk
1 100 Log() [m]
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Stellar Magnetic Fields
Disk evolution is supposedly magnetically drivenOnly a handful of stars have directly measured fields
(Johns-Krull et al. 2009)
Measure Zeeman splitting (or broadening) of lines such as Ti I.
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Astrophysics of Young Stars
Log (Teff)
log
g
(Doppmann et al. 2005)
Keck 0.3-2 hr /source a R~18,000
A wide range of luminosities and gravities (and therefore ages) appear for stars of all types
Most embedded, veiled objects do seem younger than optically revealed ones (White & Hillenbrand 2004)-- need IR
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Origin of Isotope Ratios
CO self-shielding: Lyons & Young (2005) suggested that irradiation of our young disk generated our 18O/17O/16O ratios
Need O to be incorporated into water
(R. Smith et al. 2009)
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Direct Observations of Circumstellar Disks and origins of the diversity of planetary systems
Disk Spectroscopy Direct measurement of gas content and
temperature High spectral resolution proxy for spatial
resolution (gas close to the star moves fast) High spatial resolution to resolve the disk
directly (Spectroastrometry) Disk Imaging
Direct measurement of structure Composition from low-resolution spectroscopy of