Stellar-MADE Project

Exploring the effects of Stellar Multiplicity on planet formation Across Disc Evolution.
ERC Starging Grant: October 2022 - September 2027.
Project hosted at IPAG (Grenoble, France).

Members of the team:

• Nicolás Cuello (Principal Investigator, IPAG)
• Antoine Alaguero (PhD Student, IPAG)

Goals of this project:

• Establish the formation channels of protoplanetary discs around young stellar objects;
• Follow disc dynamics and grain growth to identify the regions of planetesimal formation;
• Characterise planetary architectures and the resulting exoplanet population.

Abstract of the project

Kick-off meeting in the Alps

Dates: 17, 18, 19, 20 January 2023.
Location: Hôtel Les Playes, Villard de Lans.
List of participants & information.

Journal club: Discs & Planets in Multiple Stellar Systems

Every Wednesday at 14h30 (CET) we meet online through Zoom to discuss recent interesting articles from the arXiv with the available collaborators of the Stellar-MADE project.

We have 2 presentations per meeting:

• a long version (15-20 min): detailed discussion;
• a short one (5 min): quick update / 1-2 slides.

For more information, follow this link: Stellar-MADE journal club.
Feel free to get in touch if you are interested.

Featured publications:

• Close encounters: How stellar flybys shape planet-forming discs
  Cuello, Ménard & Price (2023)
• Circumbinary planets: migration, trapping in mean-motion resonances, and ejection
  Gianuzzi, Giuppone & Cuello (2023)
• Sustained FU Orionis-type outbursts from colliding discs in stellar flybys
  Borchert, Price, Pinte & Cuello (2022)

Complete list of publications

Outreach activities

• Presentation for high-school French students at IPAG, 14/12/2022;
  "Simulations numériques & formation planétaire".

• Online presentation for elementary school students, Italy, 19/12/2022.
  "I misteri della fomazione planetaria: Pianeti e stelle binarie"
  Gallery of selected drawings by the students.

Main collaborators of Stellar-MADE

• François Ménard (Grenoble, France)
• Daniel Price (Monash, Australia)
• Christophe Pinte (Monash, Australia)
• Cathie Clarke (Cambridge, UK)
• Giuseppe Lodato (Milano, Italy)
• Cristian Giuppone (Córdoba, Argentina)
• Rebecca Nealon (Warwick, UK)

Extended list of collaborators

Current (co)supervision of PhD students

• Antoine Alaguero (Grenoble, France): 2022-2025, with François Ménard.
• Emmanuel Gianuzzi (Córdoba, Argentina): 2021-2024, with Cristian Giuppone.
• Simone Ceppi (Milano, Italy): 2020-2023, with Giuseppe Lodato.

Acknowledgements

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 101042275, project Stellar-MADE).