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Cold dense cores are unique among the structures found in the interstellar medium (ISM), as they harbor a rich chemical inventory, including complex organic molecules (COMs), which will be inherited by future evolutionary stages. These…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-28 S. Maitrey , Liton Majumdar , Varun Manilal , Baibhav Srivastava , Prathap Rayalacheruvu , Karen Willacy , Eric Herbst

Protoplanetary disks are the target of many chemical studies (both observational and theoretical) as they contain the building material for planets. Their large vertical and radial gradients in density and temperature make them challenging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-07 V. Wakelam , M. Ruaud , F. Hersant , A. Dutrey , D. Semenov , L. Majumdar , S. Guilloteau

During the million years of evolution, gas dust and ice in protoplanetary disks can be chemically reprocessed. There are evidences that the gas-phase carbon and oxygen abundances are sub-solar in disks belonging to nearby star forming…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 D. Fedele , C. Favre

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

We study the changes in physical and chemical conditions during the collapse of a pre--protostellar core, starting from initial conditions appropriate to a dense molecular cloud and proceeding to the ``completely depleted'' limit. We follow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. R. Flower , G. Pineau des Forets C. M. Walmsley

The deuterium fraction [N$_2$D$^+$]/[N$_2$H$^+$], may provide information about the ages of dense, cold gas structures, important to compare with dynamical models of cloud core formation and evolution. Here we introduce a complete chemical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-29 Shuo Kong , Paola Caselli , Jonathan C. Tan , Valentine Wakelam , Olli Sipilä

Aims: To calculate chemistry and gas temperature of evolving protoplanetary disks with decreasing mass or dust settling, and to explore the sensitivity of gas-phase tracers. Methods: The density and dust temperature profiles for a range of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Jonkheid , C. P. Dullemond , M. R. Hogerheijde , E. F. van Dishoeck

Protoplanetary disks composed of dust and gas are ubiquitous around young stars and are commonly recognized as nurseries of planetary systems. Their lifetime, appearance, and structure are determined by an interplay between stellar…

Chemistry plays an important role in the structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks, with implications for the composition of comets and planets. This is the first of a series of papers based on data from DISCS, a Submillimeter Array…

Protoplanetary disks are the sites of planet formation, and the evolution and eventual dispersal of these disks strongly influences the formation of planetary systems. Disk evolution during the planet-forming epoch is driven by accretion…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Richard Alexander , Ilaria Pascucci , Sean Andrews , Philip Armitage , Lucas Cieza

The detection of complex organic molecules (COMs) toward cold sources such as pre-stellar cores (with T<10 K), has challenged our understanding of the formation processes of COMs in the interstellar medium. Recent modelling on COM chemistry…

We present high-resolution zoom-in simulations of molecular clouds exposed to an interstellar radiation field and cosmic ray ionisation rate up to 1000 times stronger than that of the solar neighbourhood. We detail the evolution of the…

The chemical evolution in star forming regions is driven by the interplay between gas and ice mantles. Identifying the ice compositions at the early stage of star formation thus provides constraints on the chemical processes inaccessible…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-06 Andrew M. Turner , Yao-Lun Yang , Rachel Gross , Nami Sakai , Ralf I. Kaiser

Solar and extrasolar comets and extrasolar planets are the subject of numerous studies in order to determine their chemical composition and internal structure. In the case of planetesimals, their compositions are important as they govern in…

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

Characterizing the dust thermal structure in protoplanetary disks is a fundamental task as the dust surface temperature can affect both the planetary formation and the chemical evolution. Since the temperature is dependent on many…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 S. Gavino , J. Kobus , A. Dutrey , S. Guilloteau , S. Wolf , J. K. Jørgensen , R. Sharma

In the present paper, we introduce a two-component model of the Galactic disk to investigate its chemical evolution. The formation of the thick and thin disks occur in two main accretion episodes with both infall rates to be Gaussian. Both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. X. Chang , J. L. Hou , C. G. Shu , C. Q. Fu

The gravitational collapse of a spherical cloud core is investigated by numerical calculations. The initial conditions of the core lie close to the critical Bonnor-Ebert sphere with a central density of \sim 10^4 cm^{-3} in one model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yuri Aikawa , Eric Herbst , Helen Roberts , Paola Caselli

The collapse of the primordial gas in the density regime $\sim 10^{8}\hbox{--}10^{10}$ cm$^{-3}$ is controlled by the three-body $\rm H_2$ formation process, in which the gas can cool faster than free-fall time $\hbox{--}$ a condition…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-30 Jayanta Dutta

The maximum temperature and radial temperature profile in a protoplanetary disc are important for the condensation of different elements in the disc. We simulate the evolution of a set of protoplanetary discs from the collapse of their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Min Li , Shichun Huang , Zhaohuan Zhu , Michail I. Petaev , Jason H. Steffen

Models of chemical evolution of galaxies including the dust are nowadays required to decipher the high-z universe. In a series of three papers we have tackled the problem and set a modern chemical evolution model. In the first paper (Piovan…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-07-25 L. Piovan , C. Chiosi , E. Merlin , T. Grassi , R. Tantalo , U. Buonomo , L. P. Cassarà