Phil Armitage, Stony Brook University

WELCOME to the web site of Phil Armitage at Stony Brook University. I'm interested in using numerical simulations to understand the physics of protoplanetary disks, the formation of extrasolar planets, and the astrophysics of black holes. Topics of recent interest incude the formation of planetesimals, the accretion of planetary envelopes, and the use of machine learning for theoretical studies of planetary dynamics. I currently divide my time between Stony Brook and the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute, where I lead the planet formation group.

Simulation of accretion disk turbulence, by Jake Simon

Recent papers
Instability from high-order resonant chains in wide-separation massive planet systems , M. Murphy & P.J. Armitage, MNRAS, 512, 2750 (2022)

MHD disc winds can reproduce fast disc dispersal and the correlation between accretion rate and disc mass in Lupus, B. Tabone, G.P. Rosotti, G. Lodato, P.J. Armitage, A.J. Cridland, & E.F. van Dishoeck, MNRAS Letters, 512, L74 (2022)

Secular evolution of MHD wind-driven discs: analytical solutions in the expanded alpha-framework, B. Tabone, G.P. Rosotti, A.J. Cridland, P.J. Armitage, & G. Lodato, MNRAS, 512, 2290 (2022)

Global 3D radiation hydrodynamic simulations of proto-Jupiter's convective envelope, Z. Zhu, Y.-F. Jiang, H. Baehr, A.N. Youdin, P.J. Armitage & R.G. Martin, MNRAS, 508, 453 (2021)

Boundary layer circumplanetary accretion: How fast could an unmagnetized planet spin up through its disk?, J. Dong, Y.-F. Jiang & P.J. Armitage, ApJ, 921, id. 54 (2021)

A Bayesian neural network predicts the dissolution of compact planetary systems, M. Cranmer et al., PNAS, 118, issue 40, id. 2026053118 (2021)

Reviews and notes
Demographics of young stars and their protoplanetary disks (C.F. Manara et al., review for Protostars and Planets VII)

Lecture notes on accretion disk physics (arXiv only)

Visualizing the kinematics of planet formation, Disk Dynamics Collaboration

Physical processes in protoplanetary disks (Armitage, 45th Saas-Fee Advanced Course "From Protoplanetary Disks to Planet Formation")

A brief overview of planet formation (Armitage, short introduction for the Handbook of Exoplanets)

Dynamics of protoplanetary disks (Armitage, ARA&A, 2011)

Lecture notes on the formation and early evolution of planetary systems (arXiv only)

Textbook

Personal I did my undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Cambridge, working with Cathie Clarke at the Institute of Astronomy as my primary advisor. I was a postdoc at CITA and MPA, a lecturer at St Andrews, and a professor at the University of Colorado (2002-2018) before moving to New York.

Beyond work I enjoy hiking, often combined with photography. My main focus is landscapes, but over the years I've also made trips to photograph bears in some spectacular spots in Alaska.

Philip Armitage
email: philip.armitage@stonybrook.edu