Timescales of Protoplanetary Disks
Isa Oliveira - ON
Planets are believed to form inside protoplanetary disks. The lifetimes
of these disks have strong consequences on theories for planet
formation, as short-lived disks could not allow enough time for planets
to form. Observations show some disks to live more than 10 Myr while
others are completely dissipated at 1 Myr already. It is still unclear
what originates this discrepancy. I will show recent results on
disk-bearing and diskless young stars in the Serpens Molecular Cloud and
discuss some implications for the study of protoplanetary disk evolution.