RIA Meeting: Physics opportunities with a new universe’s view: the SKA radio telescope

Session

6 Nov 2017, 11:30

Salon Actos (Universe)

Conveners

Cradle of Life/Astrobiology

• Carlos Peña-Garay (I2SysBio/CSIC-UV and LSC)

Contribution list Timetable

2. Using SKA to decipher the chemical and granulometric distribution of dust in protoplanetary disks, to be compared with the chondrite evidence

Prof. Josep TRIGO-RODRIGUEZ (IEEC/CSIC, Spain)

06/11/2017, 11:30

3. SKA and the Cradle of Life

Dr. Izaskun Jimenez Serra (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

06/11/2017, 12:00

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...