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In star-forming regions, molecular cloud history and dynamics set the trend in the chemical composition. Ice formation, in particular, is affected by the evolution of physical conditions, which can lead to different ice compositions within…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 A. Taillard , V. Wakelam , P. Gratier , E. Dartois , M. Chabot , J. A. Noble , L. Chu

We present the results of models of the chemistry, including deuterium, in the inner regions of protostellar disks. We find good agreement with recent gas phase observations of several (non--deuterated) species. We also compare our results…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Willacy , P. Woods

To study the chemical evolution during the formation of molecular clouds, we model three types of clouds with different density structures: collapsing spherical, collapsing ellipsoidal, and static spherical profiles. The collapsing models…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-15 Jingfei Sun , Fujun Du

Observations have revealed that the elemental abundances of carbon and oxygen in the warm molecular layers of some protoplanetary disks are depleted compared to those is the interstellar medium by a factor of ~10-100. Meanwhile, little is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Kenji Furuya , Seokho Lee , Hideko Nomura

We summarize the updated set of multiphase chemical evolution models performed with 44 theoretical radial mass initial distributions and 10 possible values of efficiencies to form molecular clouds and stars. We present the results about the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Mercedes Mollá

The low-mass star formation evolutionary sequence is relatively well-defined both from observations and theoretical considerations. The first hydrostatic core is the first protostellar equilibrium object that is formed during the star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Benoit Commercon , Ralf Launhardt , Cornelis P. Dullemond , Thomas Henning

The first hydrostatic core (FHSC) phase is a brief stage in the protostellar evolution that is difficult to detect. Our goal is to characterize the chemical evolution of gas and dust during the formation of the FHSC. Moreover, we are…

We present a detailed study of the collapse of molecular cloud cores using high resolution 3D adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) numerical simulations. In this first in a series of investigations our initial conditions consists of spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Robi Banerjee , Ralph E. Pudritz , Lindsay Holmes

To understand the chemical origin of the Solar system, the chemical evolution along the star/planet formation is a key issue. Extensive observational studies have demonstrated a chemical diversity in young low-mass protostellar sources so…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Yoko Oya

(Abridged) Astronomical observations have shown that protoplanetary disks are dynamic objects through which mass is transported and accreted by the central star. Age dating of meteorite constituents shows that their creation, evolution, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fred J. Ciesla , Jeffrey N. Cuzzi

The Primordial Disk of small icy planetesimals, once located at 15-30 AU from the Sun, was disrupted by giant planet migration in the early Solar System. The Primordial Disk thereby became the source region of objects in the current-day…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-01 Björn J. R. Davidsson

Recent observations show that the CO gas abundance, relative to H$_2$, in many 1-10 Myr old protoplanetary disks may be heavily depleted, by a factor of 10-100 compared to the canonical interstellar medium value of 10$^{-4}$. When and how…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Ke Zhang , Kamber R. Schwarz , Edwin A. Bergin

Observations of low-mass protostellar systems show evidence of rich complex organic chemistry. Their low luminosity, however, makes determining abundance distributions of complex organic molecules (COMs) within the water snowline…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-02 Levi G. Walls , Merel L. R. van 't Hoff , Edwin A. Bergin

Quantifying the composition of the material in protoplanetary disks is paramount to determining the potential for exoplanetary systems to produce and support habitable environments. A key complex organic molecule (COM) to detect is methanol…

Ices are an important constituent of protoplanetary disks. New observational facilities, notably the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), will greatly enhance our view of disk ices by measuring their infrared spectral features. We present a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Nicholas P. Ballering , L. Ilsedore Cleeves , Dana E. Anderson

Hot molecular cores (HMCs) are intermediate stages of high-mass star formation and are also known for their rich emission line spectra at (sub-)mm wavebands. The observed spectral feature of HMCs such as total number of emission lines and…

Massive star formation exhibits an extremely rich chemistry. However, not much evolutionary details are known yet, especially at high spatial resolution. Therefore, we synthesize previously published Submillimeter Array…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Beuther , Q. Zhang , E. A. Bergin , T. K. Sridharan

The detection of complex organic molecules (COMs) toward dense, collapsing prestellar cores has sparked interest in the fields of astrochemistry and astrobiology, yet the mechanisms for COM formation are still debated. It was originally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Samantha Scibelli , Yancy Shirley

We study the formation of the protoplanetary disk by the collapse of a primordial molecular cloud, and how its evolution leads to the selection of specific types of planets. We use a hydrodynamical code that accounts for the dynamics,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Kevin Baillié , Joao Marques , Laurent Piau

This is the second paper in a series where we study the influence of transport processes on the chemical evolution of protoplanetary disks. Our analysis is based on a flared alpha-model of the DM Tau system, coupled to a large gas-grain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 D. Semenov , D. Wiebe