PlanetDisks
PlanetDisks is a term used in astronomy to describe the families of disk-shaped structures associated with planet formation, including protoplanetary disks around young stars and circumplanetary disks that form around nascent planets within those disks. These disks consist of gas and dust and serve as the reservoirs from which planets accrete and migrate. Protoplanetary disks typically span tens to hundreds of astronomical units and evolve over a few million years, while circumplanetary disks are smaller and operate on local scales around forming planets.
Observations across the electromagnetic spectrum, particularly with ALMA in the millimeter regime and with high-contrast infrared
Theoretical context: Models of PlanetDisks examine viscous evolution, disk winds, photoevaporation, and planet-disk interactions that carve
Data and community resources: Researchers assemble PlanetDisks data into catalogs and simulations, enabling comparative studies and
Impact and significance: Insights from PlanetDisks inform estimates of disk lifetimes, timescales of planet formation, and