Dinner With a Star: Stellar Engulfment of Exoplanet Systems

Ashlyn Leary will describe how she utilizes MESA to model the evolution of stars and compares her results to known exoplanet systems to predict if/when host stars will swallow their planets, assuming no further dynamical evolution of the systems. She will discuss her current findings, along with an analysis of arising patterns and their implications.

Speaker: Ashlyn Leary, Lehigh University