Disks@EVLA is a survey of protoplanetary disks associated with pre-main-sequence stars in the nearest star-forming regions to investigate the millimeter/centimeter emission from large dust particles, the last observable link in the chain from sub-micron interstellar grains to planets.
 
We will use a staged approach starting with mm/cm photometry of 66 systems in the D/DnC configuration, followed by higher resolution imaging of smaller subsets of the brighter sources in subsequent C/CnB/B/BnA/A configurations.
 
The key goals of this project are:
 
1) to determine the prevalence of grain growth to cm-sized particles in disks with ages ~1-10 Myr from long wavelength spectral indices;
2) to use spatially resolved images to investigate the location of large dust grains in disks;
3) to use the unprecedented large sample of long wavelength disk data to investigate the dependence of particle populations on properties of the central stars, disk structure, and star-forming environment.