Speaker
Jane Greaves
(Cardiff University)
Description
I report on the Planet Earth Building Blocks Legacy e-MERLIN Survey. PEBBLeS is an SKA Cradle of Life forerunner project, and has just completed a census of very large dust grains in massive discs in northern star-forming regions. We uncover where dust is growing large enough to overcome loss processes and so can proceed to make planets. The e-MERLIN resolution is very high and can find the seeds of planets inwards of Jupiter's orbit. We find that observations at shorter wavelengths, including ALMA, have little predictive capability to tell us where planets will form. Questions this leads to in the SKA era will be discussed.
Author
Jane Greaves
(Cardiff University)
