Planetary systems

Marta Bryan explores what gas giants reveal about the formation and evolution of planetary systems. Their brightness and mass make them useful observational targets, and their gravitational influence can reshape the orbits and environments of smaller planets. The seminar combines several approaches. High-resolution spectroscopy of directly imaged planets measures rotation and obliquity, providing evidence about angular-momentum evolution. Radial-velocity searches for Jupiter-like companions to known inner planets probe how giant planets affect system architecture and inform the search for hab

…ideas and how discoveries of other planetary systems sharpen the questions.

…processes to the earliest stages of planetary systems.