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Rapid disappearance of a warm, dusty circumstellar disk

Zuckerman, B.; Murphy, Simon J.; Song, Inseok +3 more

Stars form with gaseous and dusty circumstellar envelopes, which rapidly settle into disks that eventually give rise to planetary systems. Understanding the process by which these disks evolve is paramount in developing an accurate theory of planet formation that can account for the variety of planetary systems discovered so far. The formation of …