Ponente
Dr.
Izaskun Jimenez Serra
(Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Descripción
In this talk I will provide a review of the current activities and future
plans of the Cradle of Life working group. The deployment of the high
frequency Band 5 receivers of the SKA will enable key science in the field
of planet formation and Astrobiology. While the unprecedented high-angular
resolution of SKA1-Mid will allow to image the thermal emission of
centimetre-sized dust particles across the water snow line in nearby
systems, its improved sensitivity with respect to current instrumentation
will allow us to search for pre-biotic species such as formamide in
proto-planetary disks and planet-sized fragments. On the other hand, the
low frequency capabilities of SKA-Low can be used to study the magnetic
fields of exolanets via their auroral synchrotron emission, which can
provide information about their internal structure. These low frequency
observations will also enable commensal SETI searches of technologically
advanced signals down to levels of typical airport radars.
