The scientific crew of the Flying Saucer

The Flying Saucer protoplanetary disk is studied by a large international consortium comprised of scientists from Europe, United States, and East Asia. The overall structure of the consortium and the division of scientific labors is presented in the following scheme:


Project coordinators:


Anne Dutrey (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France)
Paul Ho (Academia Sinica, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Taiwan)


Level 1: Data Reduction & Delivery


Edwige Chapillon (LAB, IRAM, France)
Andrea Isella (Rice University, Houston, TX, USA)
Vincent Piétu (Institut de Radio-Astronomie Millimétrique (IRAM), Grenoble, France)
Ya-Wen Tang (ASIAA, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Leonardo Testi (ESO, Garching bei Muenchen, Germany)
Others: A. Dutrey, P. Ho, St. Guilloteau, Y. Boehler, P.Y. Hieh, M.Tazzari, F. Gueth, P. Gratier, A. Kospal


Level 2: Observational Interpretation


Observational model:
Yann Boehler (Rice University, Houston, TX, USA)
Stephane Guilloteau (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France)
Others: A. Isella, L. Testi, M. Tazzari, A. Dutrey, E. Di Folco, P.G. Du, J. Cuzzi, Y.-W. Tang


Simple dust models:
Marco Tazzari (European Southern Observatory, Germany)
Sebastian Wolf (Kiel University, Germany)


Multi-wavelength observations:
Nicolas Grosso (Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France)
Michihiro Takami (Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica Taiwan)
Karl Stapelfeldt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, USA)
Others: S. Wolf, D. Padgett, M. Takami, E. Di Folco


Line radiative transfer models:
Uma Gorti (SETI Institute, Mountin View, USA)
Richard Teague (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany)
Others: I. Cleeves, Y. Pavlyuchenkov, St. Guilloteau, A. Dutrey, A. Isella, S.Y. Liu, A. Kospal


Level 3: Theoretical models


Disk turbulence and hydrodynamics:
Héloïse Méheut (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, France)
Others: St. Guilloteau, A. Dutrey, R. Teague, J. Cuzzi, H. Meheut, S. Fromang, U. Gorti, Th. Henning, F. Hersant, A.Pierens, M.Bate, S.Fromang, W.K.Lee


Disk dust evolution:
Tilman Birnstiel (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany)
Akimasa Kataoka (Heidelberg University, Germany)
Satoshi Okuzumi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Others: C. Dullemond, Ch. Ormel, T. Guillot, Th. Henning, S.Ida


Disk chemistry evolution:
Yuri Aikawa (Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Edwin Bergin (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
Ilse Cleeves (CfA, USA)
Pierre Gratier (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France)
Frank Hersant (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France)
Liton Majumdar (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France)
Dmitry Semenov (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany)
Valentine Wakelam (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France)
Karen Willacy (NASA/JPL, USA)
Others: D. Wiebe, A. Vasyunin


Link to solar system and exoplanet synthesis:
Aurélien Crida (Lagrange (UCA/OCA), IUF, France)
Tristan Guillot (Lagrange (UCA/OCA), IUF, France)
Thomas Henning (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany)
Others: H.Meheut, A. Morbidelli, M. Bate, K. Willacy, Th. Henning, Ch. Mordasini, S. Ida, S. Okuzumi