Table of Contents: Planetary Systems Beyond the Main Sequence 2010

TL;DR

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the proceedings from a 2010 conference focused on the evolution and fate of planetary systems as their host stars transition beyond the main sequence, including red giant and white dwarf stages.

Contribution

It compiles key discussions and research topics from the first conference dedicated to planetary systems' evolution beyond the main sequence.

Findings

Highlights the interaction between stellar evolution and planetary system dynamics.

Discusses the fate of planets during stellar red giant and white dwarf phases.

Bridges stellar evolution and exoplanet research fields.

Abstract

We give here the Table of Contents page for the Proceedings of "Planetary Systems beyond the Main Sequence", held in August 2010 at Bamberg, Germany. This conference was the first to discuss the fate of a planet and its host star when the star evolves into a red giant and finally ends its life as a white dwarf. Scientists specialised in stellar evolution met experts from the exoplanet field to discuss this interplay.