The Science Case for the Planet Formation Imager (PFI)∗
The Science Case for the Planet Formation Imager (PFI)∗ Stefan Krausa, John Monnierb, Tim Harriesa, Ruobing Dongc, Matthew Batea, Barbara Whitneyd, Zhaohuan Zhuc, David Buschere, Jean-Philippe Bergerf, Chris Haniffd, Mike Irelandg, Lucas Labadieh, Sylvestre Lacouri, Romain Petrovj, Steve Ridgwayk, Jean Surdejl, Theo ten Brummelaarm, Peter Tuthilln, Gerard van Belleo aUniversity of Exeter, School of Physics, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4QL, UK; bDepartment of Astronomy, University of Michigan, 500 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; cDepartment of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA; dAstronomy Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 475 N. Charter St., Madison, WI 53706, USA; eCavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK; fEuropean Southern Observatory, 85748, Garching by M¨unchen, Germany; gResearch School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2611, Australia; hI. Physikalisches Institut, Universit¨atzu K¨oln,Z¨ulpicher Strasse 77, 50937 Cologne, Germany; iLaboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, UMR 5571 Universit´eJoseph Fourier/CNRS, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France; jLaboratoire Lagrange, UMR7293, Universit´ede Nice Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire de la C^otedAzur, Bd. de lObservatoire, 06304 Nice, France; kNational Optical Astronomy Observatory, P.O. Box 26732, Tucson, AZ 85726-6732, USA; llDepartment of Astrophysics, Geophysics and Oceanography (AGO), AEOS Group, Li`egeUniversity, All´eedu 6 Ao^ut17, 4000 Li`ege,Belgium; mThe CHARA Array, Mount Wilson Observatory, Mount Wilson, CA 91023, USA; nSydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; oLowell Observatory, 1400 West Mars Hill Road, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA ABSTRACT Among the most fascinating and hotly-debated areas in contemporary astrophysics are the means by which planetary systems are assembled from the large rotating disks of gas and dust which attend a stellar birth.
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