Speaker: Giuseppe Lodato (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale | Milan, Italy)

Title: Ten years of protostellar discs with ALMA

Abstract: The advent of ALMA has deeply transformed our view of planet forming discs in several respects. The first, spectacular images of the thermal dust continuum emission has revealed that such discs host a plethora of substructures, most notably in the form of gaps and rings, and sometimes spirals, usually interpreted as the signposts of forming planets. Secondly, the high ALMA sensitivity has allowed to obtain complete samples of continuum (and line) detected discs at low resolution, allowing to perform population studies of discs. Finally, in the latest few years a whole new window has been opened thought high angular and spectral resolution observation of line emission from several chemical species, allowing to explore the disc kinematics with unprecedented details. In this talk, I will show how the combined use of the three advances above has allowed a deeper understanding of the structure and most importantly of the evolutionary processes that take place into the disc.

Note: Host: Steven Rendón Restrepo

• Date:
  April 16, 2026, 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
  
  
• Location:

  AIP; Kirch building, Conference room

  
  
• Contact:
  Julián Alvarado-Gómez
  julian.alvarado-gomez@aip.de