Dynamics of outer planetary systems

Workshop theme

A Satellite Meeting at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh

The discovery of over 300 extrasolar planets has led to significant breakthroughs in our understanding of how planetary systems both form and evolve. Although observational detection biases mean that the majority of these planets are close to their stars (<<10AU), the recent imaging of planets between 10-120AU around the stars Fomalhaut, HR8799 and beta Pictoris show that the parameter space of outer planetary systems is now opening up. These regions are also being explored by studies of debris disks that provide evidence for planetesimal belts at large distances, as well as indirect evidence for the formation of planet-sized objects, and set invaluable constraints on planet formation processes at these distances. This 3-day workshop seeks to focus on the dynamics and physical processes that affect how the outer regions (>>10AU) of planetary systems form and evolve, so as to consolidate the theoretical underpinning of this frontier of extrasolar planetary science.

We plan a roughly equal mix of invited review and contributed talks, with plenty of time for discussion, covering topics including: overview (observational constraints, Solar System), outer planets (formation, evolution, stability, circumplanetary environment), outer planetesimals and dust (formation, evolution, interactions with planets).

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Timetable

Sunday 8th November 2009
18:00 to 20:00	Welcome reception at Pollock Halls	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]

Monday 9th November 2009
08:30 to 09:20	Registration	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
09:20 to 09:30	Welcome	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
09:30 to 10:20	Paul Kalas University of California, Berkeley Observations of outer extrasolar planets	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
10:20 to 10:40	Roman Baluev Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory Hints of the fourth planet around upsilon Andromedae	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
10:40 to 11:00	Poster presentations 1	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee & Tea	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
11:30 to 12:20	Debris disk imaging and evolution	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
12:20 to 12:40	Christine Chen Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Debris disks in the nearest OB association	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
12:40 to 13:00	Laura Churcher University of Cambridge Resolved debris disks around young main sequence stars eta Tel and HR4796A: tracing planets in the dust	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch and Posters	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
14:00 to 14:50	Alessandro Morbidelli Observatoire de Nice Outer Solar System formation and evolution	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
14:50 to 15:10	Vacheslav Emel'yanenko Pereslavl-Zalessky of the Russian Academy of Sciences Evidence of outer planet migration in the orbital distribution of the Kuiper belt objects	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
15:10 to 15:30	Margaret Pan Princeton University Secular chaos in the solar system	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
15:30 to 16:00	Coffee and Tea	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
16:00 to 16:50	Eugene Chiang Planet Formation in the Outer Limits: Collisional or Collisionless?	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
16:50 to 17:10	Mark Booth University of Cambridge How common are extrasolar late heavy bombardments?	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
17:10 to 17:40	Discussion	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]

Tuesday 10th November 2009
09:30 to 10:20	Richard Alexander Universiteit Leiden Outer disc evolution	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
10:20 to 10:40	Ian Tilling University of Edinburgh Radiation thermo-chemical models of protoplanetary disks	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
10:40 to 11:00	Poster presentations 2	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee and Tea	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
11:30 to 12:20	tba	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
12:20 to 12:40	Ji-Lin Zhou Nanjing University N-body simulation of later star planetary formation: comparing to observations	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
12:40 to 13:00	Nader Haghighipour University of Hawaii Planetesimal Capture as a Clue to the Formation of Gas-Giants	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch and Posters	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
14:00 to 14:50	Scott Tremaine Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Long-lived N-body disks	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
14:50 to 15:10	Richard Parker University of Sheffield The role of cluster evolution in disrupting outer planetary systems via the Kozai mechanism	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
15:10 to 15:30	Melvyn Davies Lund University Effects of crowdedness on planetary systems containing planets on wide orbits	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
15:30 to 16:00	Coffee and Tea	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
16:00 to 16:50	Alexander Krivov Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Collisional evolution of debris disks: Unraveling planetesimals and planets	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
16:50 to 17:10	John Debes NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Interstellar medium sculpting of nearby debris disks	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
17:10 to 17:40	Discussion	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
19:30 to 22:00	Wine reception and conference dinner at Pentland West	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]

Wednesday 11th November 2009
09:30 to 10:20	Ken Rice University of Edinburgh In-situ formation by gravitational instability	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
10:20 to 10:40	Farzana Meru University of Exeter Exploring the conditions required to form planets in realistically modelled self-gravitating discs	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
10:40 to 11:00	Duncan Forgan University of Edinburgh Direct synthetic imaging of smoothed particle hydrodynamics density fields, and implications for observations of outer planetary systems	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee and Tea	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
11:30 to 12:20	Willy Kley Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Outward migration from inner regions	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
12:20 to 12:40	Dimitri Veras University of Florida Formation, survival, and detectability of planets beyond 100AU	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
12:40 to 13:00	Daniel Malmberg Lund University Producing wide offset planets from fly-bys on initially stable planetary systems	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch and Posters	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
14:00 to 14:50	Sylvio Ferraz-Mello Universidade de São Paulo Phase portrait of the planetary 2:1 resonance	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
14:50 to 15:10	Ruth Murray-Clay Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Dynamics and planet formation at wide separations: HR8799	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
15:10 to 15:30	Matija Cuk Harvard University Resonances as a record of planetary migration	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
15:30 to 16:00	Coffee and Tea	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
16:00 to 16:50	Martin Duncan Queen's University, Canada Cometary Dynamics: Connecting the inner and outer solar system	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
16:50 to 17:10	Marc Kuchner NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Collisional Grooming Models of Planets Interacting with Debris Disks	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
17:10 to 17:40	Discussion	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
17:40 to 18:10	Workshop summary	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]

Speakers

Richard Alexander Universiteit Leiden
Roman Baluev Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory
Mark Booth University of Cambridge
Christine Chen Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Eugene Chiang
Laura Churcher University of Cambridge
Matija Cuk Harvard University
Melvyn Davies Lund University
John Debes NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Martin Duncan Queen's University, Canada
Vacheslav Emel'yanenko Pereslavl-Zalessky of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Sylvio Ferraz-Mello Universidade de São Paulo
Duncan Forgan University of Edinburgh
Nader Haghighipour University of Hawaii
Paul Kalas University of California, Berkeley
Willy Kley Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Alexander Krivov Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Marc Kuchner NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Daniel Malmberg Lund University
Farzana Meru University of Exeter
Alessandro Morbidelli Observatoire de Nice
Ruth Murray-Clay Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Margaret Pan Princeton University
Richard Parker University of Sheffield
Ken Rice University of Edinburgh
Ian Tilling University of Edinburgh
Scott Tremaine Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Dimitri Veras University of Florida
Ji-Lin Zhou Nanjing University

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A Satellite Meeting at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh

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