Imaging the Inner AU of Young Stellar Objects

This conference talk, recorded as part of the "Planets on the Edge" KITP conference held from May 5-8, 2025 at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara, features Noura Ibrahim from Michigan discussing imaging techniques for the inner astronomical unit (AU) of Young Stellar Objects. Explore the challenging inner regions of protoplanetary disks where thousands of short-period exoplanets have been discovered by missions like Kepler and TESS. The 17-minute presentation contributes to the conference's broader goals of understanding Earth-sized planets in inner protoplanetary disks by addressing key questions about their nature, formation mechanisms, governing parameters across different star systems, and why our Solar System lacks analogous planets. This talk is part of a conference that brought together experts in exoplanet demographics, protoplanetary disks, formation models, and meteoritics to synthesize current knowledge and advance observations, theory, and computational modeling in this field.