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SUBMITTER: Ercolano B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5414277 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ercolano Barbara B Pascucci Ilaria I
Royal Society open science 20170426 4
Discs of gas and dust around million-year-old stars are a by-product of the star formation process and provide the raw material to form planets. Hence, their evolution and dispersal directly impact what type of planets can form and affect the final architecture of planetary systems. Here, we review empirical constraints on disc evolution and dispersal with special emphasis on transition discs, a subset of discs that appear to be caught in the act of clearing out planet-forming material. Along wi ...[more]