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enge to our understanding of how they formed, and I’ll highlight the recent and upcoming efforts in Canada to unravel the mysterious origins of these primordial titans.
ids in orbit around stars. The collisions create newly visible dusty disks, often detectable many millions of years after the dispersion of the protoplanetary disks which typify the youngest phases of star and planet formation. I will describe what we understand about the origins, evolution and structure of these disks, as well as their role in planetary systems. Recent discoveries suggest they may be inexorably linked to the earliest phases of planet formation. Finally I will discuss some of the more esoteric examples of these disks which can show remarkable variability over relatively short periods of time.
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ted imaging and spectroscopy in the FIR, including the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE), with the Canadian contribution to SPIRE directed by the University of Lethbridge Astronomical Instrumentation Group (AIG). This lecture also introduces the Far-Infrared Universe, and Canadian perspective on associated telescopes and scientific instrumentation, past, present, and including future missions and mission concepts. Targets of interest include relatively nearby star formation, all the way out to the oldest photons available to us from the cosmic microwave background.
