Cool Stars 14 - Submitted Abstract # 311
This version created on 05 October 2006

Dust evolution and planet formation in disks around young stars


Nuria Calvet,  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Recent Spitzer observations of protoplanetary disks in the
Taurus-Auriga cloud show evidence of significant dust evolution.  I
will review these observations and their interpretation.  I will also
describe the transition disks, a particularly interesting disk
evolutionary stage in which planets may already have formed.  

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