ITC Colloquium - James Owen (Imperial College London)

Date: 

Thursday, November 29, 2018, 11:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Pratt

Title: Understanding the formation and evolution of the Kepler Planets. 

Abstract: The observed exoplanet population unveiled by Kepler is billions of years old, distinctly separated in time from the planet formation process that only lasted ~10-100 Myr. I will argue that atmospheric escape has been one of the key evolutionary drivers shaping the exoplanet population we observed today. By understanding how these planet evolve in time, I will show we can place some intriguing constraints on how they formed.