Published June 2016
| Version v1
Conference paper
Status of the Planet Formation Imager (PFI) concept
Creators
- Ireland, Michael
- Monnier, John
- Kraus, Stefan
- Isella, Andrea
- Minardi, Stefano
- Petrov, Romain
- ten Brummelaar, Theo
- Young, John
- Vasisht, Gautam
- Mozurkewich, David
- Rinehart, Stephen
- Michael, Ernest
- van Belle, Gerard
- Woillez, Julien
- Ireland, Michael J.
- Monnier, John D.
- Brummelaar, Theo Ten
- Vasisht, Gautum
- Michael, Ernest A.
Contributors
Others:
- Australian National University (ANU)
- School of Physics and Astronomy [Exeter] ; University of Exeter
- Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE) ; Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS) ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Description
The Planet Formation Imager (PFI) project aims to image the period of planet assembly directly, resolving structures as small as a giant planet's Hill sphere. These images will be required in order to determine the key mechanisms for planet formation at the time when processes of grain growth, protoplanet assembly, magnetic fields, disk/planet dynamical interactions and complex radiative transfer all interact - making some planetary systems habitable and others inhospitable. We will present the overall vision for the PFI concept, focusing on the key technologies and requirements that are needed to achieve the science goals. Based on these key requirements, we will define a cost envelope range for the design and highlight where the largest uncertainties lie at this conceptual stage.
Abstract
14 pages, 5 figures, Proceedings of SPIE 2016Abstract
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Identifiers
- URL
- https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03539983
- URN
- urn:oai:HAL:hal-03539983v1
Origin repository
- Origin repository
- UNICA