Dynamics of outer planetary systems

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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).

Timetable

Sunday 8th November 2009
18:00 to 20:00	Welcome reception at Pollock Halls	Meeting Room

Monday 9th November 2009
08:30 to 09:20	Registration	Meeting Room
09:20 to 09:30	Welcome	Meeting Room
09:30 to 10:20	Paul Kalas University of California, Berkeley Observations of outer extrasolar planets	Meeting Room
10:20 to 10:40	Roman Baluev Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory Hints of the fourth planet around upsilon Andromedae	Meeting Room
10:40 to 11:00	Poster presentations 1	Meeting Room
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee & Tea	Meeting Room
11:30 to 12:20	Debris disk imaging and evolution	Meeting Room
12:20 to 12:40	Christine Chen Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Debris disks in the nearest OB association	Meeting Room
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	Meeting Room
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch and Posters	Meeting Room
14:00 to 14:50	Alessandro Morbidelli Observatoire de Nice Outer Solar System formation and evolution	Meeting Room
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	Meeting Room
15:10 to 15:30	Margaret Pan Princeton University Secular chaos in the solar system	Meeting Room
15:30 to 16:00	Coffee and Tea	Meeting Room
16:00 to 16:50	Eugene Chiang Planet Formation in the Outer Limits: Collisional or Collisionless?	Meeting Room
16:50 to 17:10	Mark Booth University of Cambridge How common are extrasolar late heavy bombardments?	Meeting Room
17:10 to 17:40	Discussion	Meeting Room

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

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

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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