Bulletin of the American Physical Society
83rd Annual Meeting of the APS Southeastern Section
Volume 61, Number 19
Thursday–Saturday, November 10–12, 2016; Charlottesville, Virginia
Session F1: Planets, Exoplanets and Protoplanetary Disks |
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Chair: Robert E. Johnson, University of Virginia Room: West Ballroom |
Friday, November 11, 2016 8:30AM - 9:00AM |
F1.00001: NASA's New Horizons Mission: To Pluto and Beyond Invited Speaker: Anne Verbiscer After a nine-year journey across the Solar System, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft encountered Pluto and its five moons on 14 July 2015. Through the eyes of New Horizons, Pluto was almost instantly transformed from a mere point of light to a vastly complex world with towering mountains, bright young plains, as well as unexpected and unrivaled beauty. I will review the New Horizons mission, results to date, as well as the search for and planned exploration of New Horizons' next target, Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU$_{69}$ on 1 January 2019. [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, November 11, 2016 9:00AM - 9:30AM |
F1.00002: The Remarkable Proto-planetary Disks HL Tau: Watching the Formation of Planets Invited Speaker: Crystal Brogan Spatially resolved ALMA studies of protoplanetary disks at millimeter wavelengths are revolutionizing the study of these precursors to solar systems. In this talk I will present results from observations of the protoplanetary disk HL Tau with 3.5 AU resolution. I will also review the diverse range of modeling work that has emerged to explain the remarkable dust ring structure of HL Tau. Finally, I will show tantalizing new observational results that suggest such structures may be ubiquitous. [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, November 11, 2016 9:30AM - 10:00AM |
F1.00003: The Super-Earths and their Challenge to Planet Formation Theories Invited Speaker: Jonathan Tan The Kepler-detected population of Super-Earth mass planets on compact orbits, $\sim$0.1 AU, around their host stars present a major challenge to planet formation theories. I review the properties of these planetary systems, discuss why they are so difficult to reconcile with standard formation models, and present some new ideas about in situ formation that may help resolve the problem. [Preview Abstract] |
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