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Mapping Giant Planet Formation Sites with Spectral Line Tomography

Objective

The stunning variety of physical and chemical properties of the ever-growing census of detected exoplanets is believed to arise as a consequence of their formation. Over the last decade, the advent of new facilities, first and foremost the Atacama Large Millimetre/(sub-)millimetre Array (ALMA) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), has revolutionized our understanding of this process through detailed investigations of the chemical content of exoplanet atmospheres and the environments where these planets were assembled, planet-forming discs. However, a link between planetary and disc properties is still missing. The main reason is that, despite the wealth of available data, we are still fundamentally blind to the intermediate disc regions (between a few and 20 au), where the occurrence rate of giant planets—those with the best-studied atmospheric composition—peaks. In fact, while ALMA is mostly sensitive to the cold (20 K) outer (>20 au) disc regions, JWST probes only the hot (>100 K) inner (

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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships

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(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2025-PF

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MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV
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€ 202 125,12
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HOFGARTENSTRASSE 8
80539 MUNCHEN
Germany
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Berlin Berlin Berlin
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