Protostellar Disks as Sites of Early Phase Planet Formation

Embedded systems experience infall from their envelopes, which can have a range of dynamical consequences on the nascent disk. I will present a new generalized model of infall onto disks, accounting for the three dimensional and heterogeneous nature of protostellar envelopes, and discuss the range of parameters for which infall mediated structure formation and transport can have significant consequences for early phase planet formation.

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