"The scope of subjects that make up this volume primarily originates from a topical workshop on "Young Star Systems" that took place in April 2016 as part of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics."- foreward
NASM copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment.
Contents:
The determination of protoplanetary disk masses / Edwin A. Bergin and Jonathan P. Williams -- The ALMA revolution: gas and dust in transitional discs / Nienke van der Marel -- Wind-driven global evolution of protoplanetary discs / Xue-Ning Bai -- Particle trapping in protoplanetary discs: models vs. observations / Paola Pinilla and Andrew N. Youdin -- Dust coagulation with porosity evolution / Akimasa Kataoka -- Chondrules: ubiquitous chondritic solids tracking the evolution of the solar protoplanetary disk / Martin Bizzarro, James N. Connelly, and Alexander N. Krot -- The emerging paradigm of pebble accretion / Chris W. Ormel -- White dwarf planetary systems: insights regarding the fate of planetary systems / Amy Bonsor and Siyi Xu -- Observational signatures of planet formation in recent resolved observations of protoplanetary disks / Super-earths: atmospheric accretion, thermal evolution and envelope loss / Sivan Ginzburg, Niraj K. Inamdar, and Hilke E. Schlichting -- Constraints from planets in binaries / Kaitlin M. Kratter -- Planet population synthesis via pebble accretion / Bertram Bitsch and Anders Johansen
Summary:
"This book's interdisciplinary scope aims at bridging various communities: 1) cosmochemists, who study meteoritic samples from our own solar system, 2) (sub-) millimetre astronomers, who measure the distribution of dust and gas of star-forming regions and planet-forming discs, 3) disc modellers, who describe the complex photo-chemical structure of parametric discs to fit these to observation, 4) computational astrophysicists, who attempt to decipher the dynamical structure of magnetised gaseous discs, and the effects the resulting internal structure has on the aerodynamic re-distribution of embedded solids, 5) theoreticians in planet formation theory, who aim to piece it all together eventually arriving at a coherent holistic picture of the architectures of planetary systems discovered by 6) the exoplanet observers, who provide us with unprecedented samples of exoplanet worlds. " -publisher
