Odyssey

Credit: ESO - H. Avenhaus et al. - E. Sissa et al. - DARTT-S and SHINE collaborations


How stars and planets form and evolve? The ODYSSEY (Origin of Disks and Young Stellar Systems) team aims at answering this fondamental question, using observations from world-class instruments, and numerical models and simulations.

Research topics

The main scientific objectives of the ODYSSEY team are to understand how stellar systems and their associated planets form and evolve. Our researches focus on the following three complementary topics:

1) the origin and evolution of young stellar clusters,
2) the gas and dust evolution in protoplanetary disks and
3) the star-inner disk evolution.


The goal is to achieve a global understanding of the interactions between the star, its disk and its forming planets. These researches are based on the exploitation of world-class instrumentation in particular VLT/SPHERE, ALMA, CFHT/ESPADONS & SPIROU, VLTI/PIONIER & GRAVITY, COROT, K2, and Gaia, for which team members have had privileged access through their involvement either in science teams or instrumental development. Numerical models and simulations, coupled with the in-house radiative transfer code MCFOST, are developed to support the interpretation of all these data.

Keywords

Star formation, Protoplanetary disks, Planets, Star-disk interaction.

Contacts

– Team leader : François Ménard
– Email: francois.menard (at) univ-grenoble-alpe.fr
– Telephone: 04 76 63 56 01 (from abroad +33 4 76 63 56 01)