MIT Professor of Planetary Science and Physics Sara Seager shows us the techniques and tools she is using in the real-life search for alien life. Learn more ...
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SETI Talks archive: http://seti.org/talks Dr. Laughlin won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1998 for his part in research to explain the quantum Hall effect in ...
slides from this presentation may be viewed here: http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~hal/talks/pebble/Sagan.pdf.
presented by Dr. Emily Rauscher, Princeton slides from this presentation can be viewed here: http://nexsci.caltech.edu/workshop/2014/Rauscher_Tues.pdf.
Here the cooling is fast enough for the disc to fragment, leading to the formation of planets.
Title: Magnetized Coronae of Stars and Accretion Disks Speaker: Dmitri Uzdensky (Princeton) Date: 2008-02-04 Slides: ...
Here the cooling time is too long for the disc to fragment (beta = 12), and heating from the spiral shocks increases the Toomre Q parameter such that it ...