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In an ongoing effort to understand planet formation the link between the chemistry of the protoplanetary disk and the properties of resulting planets have long been a subject of interest. These connections have generally been made between…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 Alex J. Cridland , Elena Lega , Myriam Benisty

(Abridged) Exoplanet atmospheres are thought be built up from accretion of gas as well as pebbles and planetesimals in the midplanes of planet-forming disks. The chemical composition of this material is usually assumed to be unchanged…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Christian Eistrup , Catherine Walsh , Ewine F van Dishoeck

The elemental compositions of planets define their chemistry, and could potentially be used as beacons for their formation location if the elemental gas and grain ratios of planet birth environments, i.e. protoplanetary disks, are well…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Ana-Maria A. Piso , Jamila Pegues , Karin I. Oberg

Upcoming studies of extrasolar gas giants will give precise insights into the composition of planetary atmospheres with the ultimate goal to link it to the formation history of the planet. Here, we investigate how drifting and evaporating…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Aaron David Schneider , Bertram Bitsch

The origin of the elevated C/O ratios in discs around late M dwarfs compared to discs around solar-type stars is not well understood. Here we endeavour to reproduce the observed differences in the disc C/O ratios as a function of stellar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 J. Mah , B. Bitsch , I. Pascucci , T. Henning

Water ice is expected to be the dominant volatile component of bodies formed in the outer Solar System. However, recent observations of comets and trans-Neptunian objects suggest that the relative abundances of ices can vary substantially,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Joanna Drazkowska

The elemental composition of the gas and dust in a protoplanetary disk influences the compositions of the planets that form in it. We use the Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS) data to constrain the elemental composition of…

The relative abundances of carbon and oxygen have long been recognized as fundamental diagnostics of stellar chemical evolution. Now, the growing number of exoplanet observations enable estimation of these elements in exoplanetary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Johanna K. Teske , Katia Cunha , Verne V. Smith , Simon C. Schuler , Caitlin A. Griffith

The chemical abundance of host stars plays a pivotal role in shaping the formation history of planetary systems, yet the influence of elements beyond iron remains poorly understood. Here, we investigate the relationship between the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Ruisheng Zhang , Ji-Wei Xie , Mengrui Pan , Beibei Liu , Ji-Lin Zhou , Ji Wang , Haiyang S. Wang , Yapeng Zhang

The largest reservoir of carbon in protoplanetary discs is stored in refractory organics, which thermally decompose into the gas-phase at the organics line, well interior to the water iceline. Because this region is so close to the host…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-16 Adrien Houge , Anders Johansen , Edwin Bergin , Fred J. Ciesla , Bertram Bitsch , Michiel Lambrechts , Thomas Henning , Giulia Perotti

The gas present in planet-forming disks typically exhibits strong emission features of abundant carbon and oxygen molecular carriers. In some instances, protoplanetary disks show an elevated C/O ratio above interstellar values, which leads…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-05 Eshan Raul , Felipe Alarcón , Edwin A. Bergin

We present the next step in a series of papers devoted to connecting the composition of the atmospheres of forming planets with the chemistry of their natal evolving protoplanetary disks. The model presented here computes the coupled…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 A. J. Cridland , Ralph E. Pudritz , Tilman Birnstiel , L. Ilsedore Cleeves , Edwin A. Bergin

Observations of protoplanetary disks have revealed them to be complex and dynamic, with vertical and radial transport of gas and dust occurring simultaneously with chemistry and planet formation. Previous models of protoplanetary disks…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-18 Eric Van Clepper , Jennifer B. Bergner , Arthur D. Bosman , Edwin Bergin , Fred J. Ciesla

[Abridged] Combining a time-dependent astrochemical model with a model of planet formation and migration, we compute the carbon-to-oxygen ratio (C/O) of a range of planetary embryos starting their formation in the inner solar system (1-3…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Alex J. Cridland , Christian Eistrup , Ewine F. van Dishoeck

Solar and extrasolar planets are the subject of numerous studies aiming to determine their chemical composition and internal structure. In the case of extrasolar planets, the composition is important as it partly governs their potential…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-15 Ulysse Marboeuf , Amaury Thiabaud , Yann Alibert , Nahuel Cabral , Willy Benz

Protoplanetary disks, the birthplaces of planets, commonly feature bright rings and dark gaps in both continuum and line emission maps. Accreting planets are interacting with the disk, not only through gravity, but also by changing the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Haochang Jiang , Yu Wang , Chris W. Ormel , Sebastiaan Krijt , Ruobing Dong

The gas mass of protoplanetary disks, and the gas-to-dust ratio, are two key elements driving the evolution of these disks and the formation of planetary system. We explore here to what extent CO (or its isotopologues) can be used as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 L. Reboussin , V. Wakelam , S. Guilloteau , F. Hersant , A. Dutrey

We present a model of the early chemical composition and elemental abundances of planetary atmospheres based on the cumulative gaseous chemical species that are accreted onto planets forming by core accretion from evolving protoplanetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Alex J. Cridland , Ralph E. Pudritz , Matthew Alessi

The formation of planetesimals is a necessary step in the formation of planets. While several mechanisms have been proposed, a local dust-to-gas ratio above unity is a strong requirement to trigger the collapse of pebble clouds into…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Konstantinos Odysseas Xenos , Bertram Bitsch , Geoffrey Andama

The composition of planets is largely determined by the chemical and dynamical evolution of the disk during planetesimal formation and growth. To predict the diversity of exoplanet compositions, previous works modeled planetesimal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-14 John Moriarty , Nikku Madhusudhan , Debra Fischer