Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0345227

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0345227

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Before Planets: The Mineralogy and Chemistry of Pre-Planetary Disks. Planets form within the circumstellar disks around young stars. Samples of the solid material composing our own primitive disk are found in meteorites and interplanetary dust particles. Using the powerful technique of astronomical mid-infrared spectropolarimetry, we will ascertain the composition of the material existing within the disks around young stars. By studying a range of disk ages we will determine how the composition evolves with time, and what physical processes affect it, in order to better understand how our own solar system formed. Further, we will image these disks in mm-wave molecular emission and constrain their chemistry and rotational properties.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 27-10-2003

End Date: 30-06-2010

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $486,605.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Astronomy And Astrophysics | Astronomical and Space Sciences |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Physical sciences

Other Keywords

Astronomical and Space Sciences | Astronomy And Astrophysics | Physical sciences

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