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Abstract:
Planets orbiting around close binaries (circumbinary planets) are a useful laboratory to understand planet formation and migration in a protoplanetary disc. While thought to be about as common as planets around single stars, circumbinary planets have had comparatively few detections to date. In this talk I will: explain the interest in circumbinary planets; present the state of the field of circumbinary planet observations and what difficulties exist in detecting them; discuss what can be inferred from the known population; present new results; and make predictions for how the field will evolve.
Biography:
Thomas Baycroft is a final year PhD student at the University of Birmingham, UK. His PhD work has been mostly on the detection of circumbinary exoplanets using Radial Velocities, Eclipse Timing Variations, and Astrometry. He graduated with bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Cambridge, UK, where he was involved in research on simulations of gas-rich debris discs. He will start as a T.D Lee postdoctoral fellow this autumn.
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