In hopes of seeding ideas for joint UCLA-JPL projects, I will briefly
\ndescribe a half-dozen topics showing the capabilities at JPL for
\nmodeling planet-forming environments in protostellar disks. The
\ncommon thread is our desire to translate the flood of data from
\nSpitzer, Herschel, SOFIA, ALMA, JWST and other telescopes into an
\nunderstanding of the origins of the observed population of planetary
\nsystems. Specifically I’ll give a taste of our work on (1) young
\nplanets perturbing their surroundings in ways that might soon be
\nobserved, (2) delivering ices to planets massive enough to open a gap
\nin the circumstellar disk, (3) using molecular line emission to probe
\nturbulence in the disk atmosphere, (4) infrared variability as a gauge
\nof the disk magnetic activity, (5) the origins of Jupiter’s moons in a
\ncircumplanetary disk, and\/or (6) water abundances near the protosolar
\ndisk’s snow line, in the face of destruction by stellar ultraviolet
\nphotons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In hopes of seeding ideas for joint UCLA-JPL projects, I will briefly describe a half-dozen topics showing the capabilities at JPL for modeling planet-forming environments in protostellar disks. The common thread is our desire to translate the flood of data from Spitzer, Herschel, SOFIA, ALMA, JWST and other telescopes into an understanding of the origins … <\/p>\n