Speaker
Alexis Brandeker
Description
AU Microscopii is a nearby red dwarf, belonging to the beta Pictoris
moving group. Like beta Pic, AU Mic is famous for its big, edge-on
debris disk. Recent high-resolution, multi-epoch imaging of the system
has revealed baffling features in the disk in the form of clumps moving
at super-Keplerian speed out from the system. Currently, there is no
satisfactory explanation for the origin and dynamics of the clumps. In
this talk I will review the current facts and hypotheses, and propose a
way forward towards solving this mystery.
Primary author
Alexis Brandeker
