Sallum, Steph and Bailey, Vanessa P. and Bernstein, Rebecca A. and Boss, Alan P. and Bowler, Brendan P. and Close, Laird and Currie, Thayne and Dong, Ruobing and Espaillat, Catherine and Fitzgerald, Michael P. and Follette, Katherine B. and Fortney, Jonathan and Hasegawa, Yasuhiro and Jang-Condell, Hannah and Jovanovic, Nemanja and Kane, Stephen R. and Konopacky, Quinn and Liu, Michael and Lozi, Julien and Males, Jared and Mawet, Dimitri and Mazin, Benjamin and Millar-Blanchaer, Max and Murray-Clay, Ruth and Ruane, Garreth and Skemer, Andrew and Tamura, Motohide and Vasisht, Gautam and Wang, Jason and Wang, Ji (2019) Imaging Giant Protoplanets with the ELTs. Astro2020 Science White Paper, . (Unpublished) https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190619-084158876
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We have now accumulated a wealth of observations of the planet-formation environment and of mature planetary systems. These data allow us to test and refine theories of gas-giant planet formation by placing constraints on the conditions and timescale of this process. Yet a number of fundamental questions remain unanswered about how protoplanets accumulate material, their photospheric properties and compositions, and how they interact with protoplanetary disks. While we have begun to detect protoplanet candidates during the last several years, we are presently only sensitive to the widest separation, highest mass / accretion rate cases. Current observing facilities lack the angular resolution and inner working angle to probe the few-AU orbital separations where giant planet formation is thought to be most efficient. They also lack the contrast to detect accretion rates that would form lower mass gas giants and ice giants. Instruments and telescopes coming online over the next decade will provide high contrast in the inner giant-planet-forming regions around young stars, allowing us to build a protoplanet census and to characterize planet formation in detail for the first time.
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Deposited By: | Tony Diaz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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