Planets in Disks

by Dr Garrelt Mellema (Stockholm Observatory)

Friday 23 Feb 2007, 16:00 → 17:30 Europe/Stockholm

FA32 (AlbaNova Main Building)

Planets form in gas/dust disks around young stars. The interaction between the disk influences both the orbit and the growth of planets. In this talk I will describe the results of numerical studies of this problem, focusing on the possible differences between the gas and dust distribution, and the effects the disk heating caused by the planet can have on its orbital evolution.