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The dawn of planet formation


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The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.

Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.

The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
  

Reference

SL-DRF-25-0399  

Direction

DRF

Thesis topic details

Category

Corpuscular physics and outer space

Thesis topics

The dawn of planet formation

Contract

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Job description

Planet formation is a key topic of modern astrophysics with implications on existential questions such as the origin of life in the Universe. Quite surprisingly, we do not precisely know when and where planets are formed in protoplanetary disks. Recent observations however indicate that this might happen sooner than we previously believed. But the physical conditions in the young disks remain poorly constrained. During this thesis we propose to test the hypothesis that planets could form early. We will perform 3D simulations of protoplanetary disk formation with gas, dust and including the mechanisms of planetesimal formation. In addition from determining whether planets form early we will be able to predict the architectures of exoplanet systems and to compare them to real ones. This work, beyond the current state-of-the-art, is timely as many efforts are currently being done by our community to better understand exoplanets as well as our origins.

University / doctoral school


Thesis topic location

Site

Saclay

Requester

Position start date

01/10/2025

Person to be contacted by the applicant

Lebreuilly Ugo ugo.lebreuilly@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/IRFU/DAp/LMPA
Orme des merisiers, Bât 709
91190, Gif sur Yvette
+33669440023

Tutor / Responsible thesis director

Hennebelle Patrick patrick.hennebelle@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/IRFU/DAP/LMPA
Orme les merisiers
0169089987

En savoir plus

https://ulebreui.github.io/
https://irfu.cea.fr/Phocea/Vie_des_labos/Ast/ast_groupe.php?id_groupe=1250