Photoelectric instability in debris disks rings: One theory to rule them all.

HST images of circumstellar debris disks have helped advance tremendously our understanding of these disks, thought to represent planetary systems during the late stages of planet formation as the gas clears and the system becomes optically thin. These systems are analogs of the Kuiper belt in the solar system, and show a variety of non-trivial structures attributed to planetary perturbations and utilized to constrain t...

Origin of hot Super-Earths and the vortex-assisted mode of planet formation (NASA proposal number 16-XRP16_2-0063)

In spite of steady advances, planet formation remains, by and large, a mystery. Although a relatively consistent theory has been developed in the past two decades, its application to the observed distribution of exoplanets has not fared too well. In this proposal, we aim to solve one of the most vexing problems that arose from this comparison, which is the prediction of a dearth of p...

California Broadband Field Testing #10

The Center for Geographical Studies (CGS) of the College of Social and Behavioral Studies will provide wireless field verification testing data collection.