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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:ITC Seminar - Trevor David (Flatiron)
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SUMMARY:ITC Seminar - Trevor David (Flatiron)
DESCRIPTION:<div style="text-align:start;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px">	<span><span style="color:#222222"><span style="Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial"><strong>Four newborn planets transiting the young solar analog V1298 Tau</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align:start;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px">	 </div><div style="text-align:start;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px">	<span><span style="color:#222222"><span style="Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:#333333"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Compact, multi-planet systems are one of the defining discoveries of the <em>Kepler</em> mission. These planetary systems are ubiquitous in the galaxy yet much about their nature remains a mystery, including whether they formed in situ and what their architectures were when the protoplanetary disk dispersed. Theoretical models suggest that close-in <em>Kepler</em> planets had radii that were roughly 2 to 10 times larger at the time of disk dispersal. With the recent discoveries of exoplanets transiting young stars (&lt;100 Myr), it is now possible to put these models to the test and study close-in planets at a stage when contraction, cooling, and initial atmospheric loss are still underway. To date, only a few exoplanets have been discovered transiting pre-main sequence stars, all of which are currently single-planet systems. I will discuss the recent detection of four transiting planets larger than 5 Earth radii orbiting within ~0.5 AU of a young solar analog aged between 20-30 Myr. The inner planets are larger than Neptune and expected to be actively losing envelope mass through photo-evaporation. The outer planets are both Jupiter-sized and, with separations &gt;0.15 AU photo-evaporation is expected to play a lesser role. Consequently, the outer planets may be particularly valuable benchmarks, with properties that may more closely reflect the initial conditions of <em>Kepler</em> planets. In a single system, we thus have the opportunity to study proto-<em>Kepler</em> planets across a range of insolation fluxes shortly after the accretion of envelopes and at a time when stellar X-ray emission is near its peak.</font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
LOCATION:Pratt
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART:20191104T170000Z
DTEND:20191104T180000Z
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