Speaker
Alessio Caratti o Garatti (for Tom Ray)
Description
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is due for launch in 2020. Optimized for near to mid-infrared
wavelengths, it is the largest telescope ever put in space. One of the main science drivers is understanding
star and planet formation: thus the study of outflows and disks is central not only to the JWST guaranteed
time program but will also be the focus of many open time proposals. After briefly reviewing the four main
instruments: NIRCAM, NIRSPEC, NIRISS and MIRI, the broad goals of the star and planetary formation guaranteed time
programs will be outlined including the study of chemical processes in the inner disk, the effects of metalicity
on accretion, and the atomic and molecular properties of embedded outflows.
