Seminar: Genetic links between stars, their circumstellar disks and their planets

LIVE SEMINAR: 7 May 16:00 CEST The formation histories of planets are shaped by the physical characteristics of their native disk environments, which in turn are connected to those of the host stars. Both the mass and accretion rate of protoplanetary disks are known to be proportional to the stellar mass. The stellar metallicity determines the maximum dust-to-gas ratio of disks. The balance between the disk accretional heating and the stellar luminosity sets the disk thermal structure and,...