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The Final (?) Frontier of Star and Planet Formation: Piled Deeper and Wider Michael R. Meyer

The Final (?) Frontier of Star and Planet Formation: Piled Deeper and Wider Michael R. Meyer Institute for Astronomy, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland 8 June 2011, Frontier Science Opportunities with the James Webb Space Telescope. Context for JWST in Kourou:. COROT/Kepler as well as

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The Final (?) Frontier of Star and Planet Formation: Piled Deeper and Wider Michael R. Meyer

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  1. The Final (?) Frontier of Star and Planet Formation: Piled Deeper and Wider Michael R. Meyer Institute for Astronomy, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland 8 June 2011, Frontier Science Opportunities with the James Webb Space Telescope

  2. Context for JWST in Kourou: COROT/Kepler as well as WISE and Herschel results known. SPHERE/GPI/LBTI surveys complete. GAIA Mission complete. SOFIA/ALMA normal operations. LSST, ESA Cosmic Vision, and NASA SMEX missions underway!

  3. Objects consisting of many mirrors may be SLIGHTLY Smaller and arrive later than they CURRENTLY appear.

  4. 2020: Complementary Capabilities: JWST => sensitivity & field of view. ELT => resolution (spatial & spectral). Courtesy L. Simard (TMT) and P. McCarthy (GMT)

  5. Science Goals lead to Design Requirements Physical Resolution: 15 pc 50 pc 150 pc 450 pc JWST 1.65 mm 1 AU 3 AU 10 AU 30 AU 10 mm 7 AU 20 AU 60 AU 180 AU ELT 1.65 mm .2 AU .5 AU 1.5 AU 5 AU 10 mm 1 AU 3 AU 10 AU 30 AU Spectral Resolution : R = 100 (molecular features) JWST R = 1000 (atomic features) JWST R = 10,000 (30 km/sec) ELT R = 100,000 (3 km/sec) ELT Field of View: 2’ (star clusters within 1 kpc) JWST 1.5” (circumstellar disk at 150 pc) ELT

  6. Science Goals as “Frontier” Opportunities: 1) From which star-forming events do most sun-like stars in the Milky Way (and other galaxies) come?

  7. Initial Mass Function of Stars and Sub-stellar Objects

  8. Initial Mass Function: Does it Vary with Environment? Adapted from de Marchi et al. (2010)

  9. NIRCam/TFI Multi-color images of Young Clusters “Extreme” clusters within Local Group: Nearest embedded clusters to go deep: Below hydrogen burning limit. <1 Jupiter mass

  10. Spatial Variations in the Ratio of Stars to Sub-stellar Objects? The HST Orion Treasury Program (Robberto et al.)

  11. Spatial Variations in the Ratio of Stars to Sub-stellar Objects: Primordial or Dynamical Evolution? (Andersen et al. submitted)

  12. A ‘Cluster’is BOUND: Total Energy < 0 An Association is not (V. Ambartsumian, 1951) And these BOUND clusters are RARE (< 10 % of SF in galactic disk).

  13. Lada & Lada (2003); Adams (2010); Carpenter (2000); Allen et al. (2007) What if SFE is independent of total “event” mass? dNcl/dMcl ~ Mcl-2 Equal log-range of cluster mass contribute equally to total mass. Then 10 % of each ends up bound, 90 % in the field. What controls SFE and thus determines which stars end up in field?

  14. NICMOS/HST Mosaic F810W/F110W/F150W of NGC 2024 (Liu, Meyer, Cotera, and Young 2003, AJ). New Era in Cluster Kinematics: Multi-epoch PM yield relative velocity << 1 km/sec. RV in infrared give < 0.3 km/sec Derive sV as a function of M* and cluster radius. Cf. Proszkow et al. (2009); Ayliffe et al. (2007); Tobin et al. (2009); Jorgensen et al. (2007).

  15. MIKE Magellan Spectra: 10 supergiants B2.5-F5I sV ~ 2.8 km/sec. [1.4,7.0] km/sec 96 % conf Consistent with Virial [cf. Mengel &Tacconi 2007] Cottaar et al. (in prep). [cf. Gennaro et al. 2011] WFC3 on HST Andersen et al. (in prep) Westerlund 1 NIRCam/TFI R=100 images for Teff/log[g] at HBL in LMC

  16. “Extreme” Star-Formation within 10 Mpc w/ JWST. Gordon et al. (2008)

  17. Potential Evidence for Variable IMFs:Mass-to-Light Ratios in Super Star Clusters Mengel et al. (2002); M82 (Smith & Gallagher, 2001; Bastian et al. in prep)

  18. Meyer & Greissl (2005); Greissl et al. (2010) Integrated Spectra of Massive Star Clusters:Can distinguish Chabrier (2003) from Salpeter (1955)

  19. Nuclear Starburst NGC 253 NICMOS K-band Cluster target and slits marked NIRSPEC: Both IFU and MSA needed for SNR > 100 @ R = 1000

  20. Science Goals as “Frontier” Opportunities: 1) From which star-forming events do most sun-like stars in the Milky Way (and other galaxies) come? 2) How can we put our current planet formation theories to a quantitative test?

  21. Different Flavors of Planet Formation

  22. Direct (Non) Detections of Gas Giant Planets No massive planets at large orbital radii. [3 Mjup @ 30 AU] dN/da ~ ap Lafrenerie et al. (2007); Biller et al. (2007); Kasper et al. (2007); Nielssen & Close (2009); Heinze et al. (2010)

  23. Focus on 3-5 um Background-limit: Cold Planets • Beta Pic b • ~ 8 Mjupiter @ 8-15 AU • Narrow-band 4.05 um • T ~ 1400-1700 K APP on NACO/VLT: Quanz et al. (2010)

  24. Direct Imaging Today: 6-10 meter Surveys.

  25. NIRCam/TFI “Sweet Spot” Detect very low mass planets at large radii about the nearest stars. (cf. Beichman et al.) ?

  26. Population Synthesis Models:Super-earths appear to be rather common! Ida & Lin (2004) Mordasini et al. (2009) Cf. Mayor et al. (2009) Harps, Kepler…

  27. Planets form through collisions of smaller planetary embryos. NASA animation of protoplanet collision based on data from Lisse et al. (2009).

  28. …you can see them with JWST! Miller-Ricci, Meyer, Seager, Elkins-Tanton (2009)

  29. Hot ‘PCA’s with NIRCam/TFI/MIRI Sicilia-Aguilar et al. (2009)

  30. Frontier Science Opportunities with JWST? Young cluster kinematics with NIRCam. Spectral images of barely resolved clusters. Measures of SSC integrated light with NIRSPEC. Small planets in large orbits around faint primaries. Planets in collision with NIRCam/TFI/MIRI. JWST will play transformational roles in understanding star and planet formation.

  31. Young Nuclear SSC in NGC 253: Normal IMF Greissl et al. (in preparation)

  32. SSC in NGC 253: Consistent with Field IMF * * Probability * * * Greissl et al. (in preparation) * Slope a for M < 1 Msun

  33. Thermal IR imaging offers various advantages (in BLIP):JWST best for faint primaries at large separations Sensitivity Gain (Mag) 10 8 6 4 2 L Thermal emission L H Planet Mass (Jupiter) H M M 0 1 2 3 4 5 Thermal emission of planets vs. reflected light of planets (in particular for young sources) Better performance in thermal IR due to sensitivity increase in the for surveys in future

  34. Companion Mass Ratio Distribution vs. IMF: Is there a Connection? Kraus et al. (2011); cf. Reggiani & Meyer (submitted)

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