Thesis supervisor: Péter Ábrahám
Location of studies (in Hungarian): Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Abbreviation of location of studies: MTA
Description of the research topic:
Terrestrial, rocky planets are thought to form in the inner zone of the protoplanetary disks surrounding young, pre-main sequence stars. The exceptional angular resolution offered by the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (European Southern Observatory, Paranal, Chile) makes possible the detailed observational exploration of these inner disks. The PhD student's work will start with the scientific analysis of archival data of the mid-infrared MIDI interferometer. Next, from 2018, new data with the MATISSE interferometer will be available on circumstellar disks. A speciality of our interferometry program is the study of time variability in the planet forming zone.
Required language skills: excellent Enlgish Recommended language skills (in Hungarian): not required Further requirements: Good knowledge of the physics of star formation