March 9, 2017
2:30PM - 3:30PM
1005 Smith Laboratory
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2017-03-09 15:30:00
2017-03-09 16:30:00
Astronomy Colloquium
The Kepler Planets: A Tale of Evaporation James Owen: Institute for Advanced Study The Kepler mission has transformed our knowledge of the properties of extra-solar planets. It has told us a dominant - perhaps the dominant - population of exoplanets are those close to their parent stars with masses in the range 1-20 Mearth. Unlike the low-mass, close-in planets in our solar system these exoplanets are thought to contain voluminous H/He envelopes. I will discuss the evolution of this population of exoplanets, particularly with regard to mass-loss. It appears that as soon as these planets finish forming, and their parent disc disperses they begin a lifelong period of mass-loss and evaporation which imprints itself on the population we see today.Coffee and Donuts served at 2:00pm in 4054 McPherson Lab.
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2017-03-09 14:30:00
2017-03-09 15:30:00
Astronomy Colloquium
The Kepler Planets: A Tale of Evaporation James Owen: Institute for Advanced Study The Kepler mission has transformed our knowledge of the properties of extra-solar planets. It has told us a dominant - perhaps the dominant - population of exoplanets are those close to their parent stars with masses in the range 1-20 Mearth. Unlike the low-mass, close-in planets in our solar system these exoplanets are thought to contain voluminous H/He envelopes. I will discuss the evolution of this population of exoplanets, particularly with regard to mass-loss. It appears that as soon as these planets finish forming, and their parent disc disperses they begin a lifelong period of mass-loss and evaporation which imprints itself on the population we see today.Coffee and Donuts served at 2:00pm in 4054 McPherson Lab.
1005 Smith Laboratory
Department of Astronomy
astronomy@osu.edu
America/New_York
public
The Kepler Planets: A Tale of Evaporation
James Owen: Institute for Advanced Study
The Kepler mission has transformed our knowledge of the properties of extra-solar planets. It has told us a dominant - perhaps the dominant - population of exoplanets are those close to their parent stars with masses in the range 1-20 Mearth. Unlike the low-mass, close-in planets in our solar system these exoplanets are thought to contain voluminous H/He envelopes. I will discuss the evolution of this population of exoplanets, particularly with regard to mass-loss. It appears that as soon as these planets finish forming, and their parent disc disperses they begin a lifelong period of mass-loss and evaporation which imprints itself on the population we see today.
Coffee and Donuts served at 2:00pm in 4054 McPherson Lab.
