Periodic Reporting for period 1 - DiskTorqueOnPlanets (New Frontiers in Modeling Planet-Disk Interactions: from Disk Thermodynamics to Multi-Planet Systems)
Période du rapport: 2017-09-01 au 2019-08-31
The most immediate beneficiary of the tools developed during the project is undoubtedly the large community of astrophysicists working intensively to understand how the revolutionary data being gathered by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) can help us unravel the processes that shape planetary systems. It is clear that in order to make the most of these observations it is necessary to develop and make available to the community, numerical codes to model the complex dynamical processes shaping protoplanetary disks as we observed them. In a broader context, the insights that this will enable have the potential to impact other communities including astrochemistry. On a broader scale, a significant improvement in our understanding and characterization of how dust moves and concentrates on protoplanetary disks has the potential to change the way we think planets form and evolve.