Filling in the Gaps: Illuminating (a) Clearing Mechanisms in Transitional Protoplanetary Disks, and (b) Quantitative Illiteracy among Undergraduate Science Students

What processes are responsible for the dispersal of protoplanetary disks? In this dissertation, beginning with a brief Introduction to planet detection, disk dispersal and high-contrast imaging in Chapter 1, I will describe how ground-based adaptive optics (AO) imaging can help to inform these proce...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Follette, Katherine Brutlag
Other Authors: Close, Laird M.
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/338735