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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP230101439
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Planet Formation at Solar System Scales with the James Webb Space Telescope. Planetary systems like our own form within vast disks of primordial gas and dust around newborn stars. This project will observe such disks spanning a range of ages with the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal the detailed in-situ physics of planet-forming disks themselves. We will deliver the sharpest-ever infrared images in astronomy, exploiting the only Australian-designed instrument on the spacecraft: the Aperture Masking Interferometer. This yields new physics for actively growing protoplanets, carved rings and gaps in disks, and gravitationally sculpted patterns of leftover cometary debris. Confronting state-of-the-art models with these data will immediately yield profound insights into planetary system formation, including our own.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 07-2023
End Date: 07-2026
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $390,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Astronomical sciences | Stellar astronomy and planetary systems | Optical technology | Machine learning not elsewhere classified |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
