Carlo Felice Manara - Personal Profiles
Main Research Fields
My research focuses on the processes of star and planet formation, in particular on the evolution of protoplanetary disks. So far, I have studied in detail the interaction of the forming star with the surrounding protoplanetary disk through accretion of matter. This was done mainly using UV to optical and near-infrared spectroscopical data (e.g. VLT/X-Shooter spectra) on YSOs in different star forming regions and at different evolutionary states, such as classical TTauri stars or transitional disks. While continuing to investigate this process, I am now studying the effects of dynamical interactions in young stellar clusters on the evolution of protoplanetary disks combining optical and infrared data with the future GAIA data release.
Keywords
- protoplanetary disk evolution
- star and planet formation
- young stellar clusters
- accretion processes
- transitional disks
Ongoing collaborations
- ESA (Timo Prusti, Jos de Bruijne, Teresa Antoja, Christian Schneider, Pablo Rivière Marichalar, Bruno Merìn, Ignacio Bustamante, Catarina Alves de Oliveira)
- Leiden University (Eleonora Zari, Anthony Brown, Gráinne Costigan, Lucie Jilkova)
- ESO (Leonardo Testi, Giacomo Beccari, Suzanne Ramsay, Gaitee Hussain, H. Baobab Liu, Anna McLeod)
- IoA Cambridge (Giovanni Rosotti, Cathie Clarke)
- INAF (Antonella Natta, Juan Alcalà, Simone Antoniucci, Davide Fedele, Jets and Disks at INAF, Kazi Rygl, Antonio Frasca, Brunella Nisini)
- STScI (Massimo Robberto)
- UNAM (Roberto Galvan-Madrid)
- MPE (Stefano Facchini)
- Kavli Institute Peking University (Greg Herczeg)
- USM (Barbara Ercolano)
- University of Colorado (Kevin France)
- University of Milan (Giuseppe Lodato)
- University of Florida (Nicola Da Rio)
Publications
Project/mission at ESA
Gaia
Contacts:
Office: BA131
Phone: +31(0)71 565 6350
Mail: cmanara@cosmos.esa.int