STELLAR NURSERY

Our team consists of three full-time staff with expertises on observational star and planet formation. Aurora Sicilia-Aguilar observationally explores star formation and protoplanetary disks at multiple wavelengths, and has made pioneering contributions to understanding disk lifetimes and accretion and using emission line spectroscopy to track the structures around young, accreting stars. Scott Gregory works at the boundary of observation and theory with a focus on stellar magnetism and evolution. His work has provided predictions for how magnetic fields vary across the H-R diagram. Soko Matsumura numerically studies the formation and dynamical evolution of planetary systems and has made useful contributions to the tidal evolution of observed exoplanets. Our complementary expertise allow us to carry out numerically-supported observational work as well as observationally-motivated, state-of-the-art numerical studies of star and planet formation... This project is an interdisciplinary..

Primary location: United Kingdom