Protoplanetary disks observations with ALMA
1 : Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux
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CNRS : UMR5804, INSU, Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux I
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Recent IRAM interferometric results have started to unveil some of the detailed physics at work in proto-planetary disks: evidence for dust size radial segregation, and disks preading with time, perhaps of dust settling, but also more intricate measurements like a direct measure of turbulence and the detection of cavities which may trace planetary formation.
A few more molecules have been also discovered recently, but the molecular complexity in disks still appears quite limited.
Combining these results with lessons learned from a recent survey for molecules in disks at the 30-m, I will show how ALMA can help us to improve our knowledge of the physics of disks.