Allen, M., Anania, R., Andersen, M. et al. (50 more authors) (2025) The past, present and future of observations of externally irradiated disks. The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 8. ISSN: 2565-6120
Abstract
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the community studying the effect of ultraviolet radiation environment, predominantly set by OB stars, on protoplanetary disc evolution and planet formation. This is important because a significant fraction of planetary systems, potentially including our own, formed in close proximity to OB stars. This is a rapidly developing field, with a broad range of observations across many regions recently obtained or recently scheduled. In this paper, stimulated by a series of workshops on the topic, we take stock of the current and upcoming observations. We discuss how the community can build on this recent success with future observations to make progress in answering the big questions of the field, with the broad goal of disentangling how external photoevaporation contributes to shaping the observed (exo)planet population. Both existing and future instruments offer numerous opportunities to make progress towards this goal.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This item is protected by copyright. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Protoplanetary disks, external photoevaporation, star formation, observations |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Physics and Astronomy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 Sep 2025 08:12 |
Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2025 08:12 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Maynooth University |
Identification Number: | 10.33232/001c.137538 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:231985 |