Disk Dispersal and Planet Formation Time Scales

Abstract

Well before the existence of exo-solar systems was confirmed, it was accepted knowledge that most -- if not all -- stars possess circumstellar material during the first one-to-several million years of their pre-main sequence lives, and thus that they commonly have the potential to form planets. Here I summarize current understanding regarding the evolution of proto-planetary dust and gas disks, emphasizing the diversity in evolutionary paths.

Similar to version that will be published by IOP in 2008, Physica Scripta (Special Issue on Nobel Symposium 135: Physics of Planetary Systems)

References in corpus (33)

• Circumstellar Dust Disks in Taurus-Auriga: The Submillimeter Perspective
• Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in Taurus-Auriga
• Spitzer Space Telescope study of disks in the young $\sigma$ Orionis cluster
• Observations of IC348: The Disk Population at 2-3 Million Years
• Accretion in Young Stellar/Substellar Objects
• A Survey and Analysis of Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph Spectra of T Tauri Stars in Taurus
• The T Tauri Phase Down to Nearly Planetary Masses: Echelle Spectra of 82 Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs
• An Assessment of Dynamical Mass Constraints on Pre-Main Sequence Evolutionary Tracks
• Evidence for Mass-dependent Circumstellar Disk Evolution in the 5 Myr-old Upper Scorpius OB Association
• IRAC Observations of Taurus Pre-Main Sequence Stars
• Accretion Rates in Herbig Ae stars
• H2O and OH gas in the terrestrial planet-forming zones of protoplanetary disks
• Dust dynamics during protoplanetary disc clearing
• Demographics of Transition Objects
• The Spitzer c2d Survey of Weak-line T Tauri Stars II: New Constraints on the Timescale for Planet Building
• High-Resolution Spectroscopy in Tr37: Gas Accretion Evolution in Evolved Dusty Disks
• Accretion Disks around Young Stars: Lifetimes, Disk Locking and Variability
• c2d Spitzer IRS Spectra of Disks around T Tauri Stars. III. [Ne II], [Fe I], and H_2 gas-phase lines
• Detection of [Ne II] Emission from Young Circumstellar Disks
• Exploring Terrestrial Planet Formation in the TW Hydrae Association
• Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems (FEPS): Primordial Warm Dust Evolution From 3-30 Myr around Sun-like Stars
• Constraining the Lifetime of Circumstellar Disks in the Terrestrial Planet Zone: A Mid-IR Survey of the 30-Myr-old Tucana-Horologium Association
• The evolution of stars in the Taurus-Auriga T association
• The Differential Lifetimes of Protostellar Gas and Dust Disks
• Detections of Ro-Vibrational H${}_2$ Emission from the Disks of T Tauri Stars
• The stellar mass-accretion rate relation in T Tauri stars and brown dwarfs
• Spitzer/IRAC Photometry of the Eta Chameleontis Association
• The Ages of Pre-main-sequence Stars
• Disk evolution in the Ori OB1 association
• Adaptive Optics Imaging of the AU Microscopii Circumstellar Disk: Evidence for Dynamical Evolution
• Detection of Molecular Hydrogen Orbiting a "Naked" T Tauri Star
• TEXES Observations of Pure Rotational H2 Emission From AB Aurigae
• Molecular Hydrogen emission from disks in the eta Chamaeleontis cluster

Cited by in corpus (52)

• The Spitzer c2d Legacy Results: Star Formation Rates and Efficiencies; Evolution and Lifetimes
• Protoplanetary Disks and Their Evolution
• Timescale of Mass Accretion in Pre-Main-Sequence Stars
• Photoevaporation of Circumstellar Disks by FUV, EUV and X-ray Radiation from the Central Star
• LkCa 15: A Young Exoplanet Caught at Formation?
• Protoplanetary disk lifetimes vs stellar mass and possible implications for giant planet populations
• The Role of Multiplicity in Disk Evolution and Planet Formation
• Star and protoplanetary disk properties in Orion's suburbs
• Formation and Structure of Low Density Exo-Neptunes
• Debris Disks: Seeing Dust, Thinking of Planetesimals and Planets
• Modeling the Formation of Giant Planet Cores I: Evaluating Key Processes
• Challenges in Planet Formation
• Hot super-Earths and giant planet cores from different migration histories
• T Tauri candidates and accretion rates using IPHAS: method and application to IC1396
• Stealing the Gas: Giant Impacts and the Large Diversity in Exoplanet Densities
• Dynamical evidence for an early giant planet instability
• The Greater Taurus-Auriga Ecosystem I: There Is A Distributed Older Population
• The PTF Orion Project: a Possible Planet Transiting a T-Tauri Star
• Tidally induced brown dwarf and planet formation in circumstellar discs
• Observations of Solids in Protoplanetary Disks
• A Spitzer Survey of Protoplanetary Disk Dust in the Young Serpens Cloud: How do Dust Characteristics Evolve with Time?
• Warm molecular gas and kinematics in the disc around HD 100546
• Spin-Orbit angle distribution and the origin of (mis)aligned hot Jupiters
• Spitzer Observations of the Lambda Orionis cluster. II. Disks around solar-type and low mass stars
• Herschel HIFI observations of ionised carbon in the β Pictoris debris disk
• Planetesimal and Protoplanet Dynamics in a Turbulent Protoplanetary Disk: Ideal Unstratified Disks
• Resolving HD 100546 disc in the mid-infrared: Small inner disc and asymmetry near the gap
• General Analysis of Type I Planetary Migration with Stochastic Perturbations
• The Palomar Transient Factory Orion Project: Eclipsing Binaries and Young Stellar Objects
• Spitzer Observations of the Lambda Orionis cluster I: the frequency of young debris disks at 5 Myr
• Particle accretion onto planets in discs with hydrodynamic turbulence
• On the origin of [Ne II] emission in young stars: mid-infrared and optical observations with the Very Large Telescope
• Growth of Jupiter: Enhancement of Core Accretion by a Voluminous Low-Mass Envelope
• HD 95881: A gas rich to gas poor transition disk?
• Rayleigh Adjustment of Narrow Barriers in Protoplanetary Discs
• Did Jupiter's core form in the innermost parts of the Sun's protoplanetary disk?
• Can gas in young debris disks be constrained by their radial brightness profiles?
• The Spitzer Survey of Interstellar Clouds in the Gould Belt. IV. Lupus V and VI Observed with IRAC and MIPS
• Signatures of warm carbon monoxide in protoplanetary discs observed with Herschel SPIRE
• Formation of Terrestrial Planets
• Planetesimal Disk Microlensing
• The viscous evolution of circumstellar discs in young star clusters
• Disk Evolution in W5: Intermediate Mass Stars at 2-5 Myr
• Dust discs around intermediate mass and Sun-like stars in the 16 Myr old NGC 1960 open cluster
• Formation of Giant Planets
• A deep multi-band investigation of IC2391
• Diagnosing the Clumpy Protoplanetary Disk of the UXor Type Young Star GM Cephei
• GAUSS -- A Sample Return Mission to Ceres
• Circumstellar Disk Evolution: Constraining Theories of Planet Formation
• Dippers from TESS Full-frame Images. II. Spectroscopic Characterization of Four Young Dippers
• Planetary Obliquity Excitation Through Pre-Main Sequence Stellar Evolution
• Generating Stellar Obliquity in Systems with Broken Protoplanetary Disks