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The composition of planetary solids and gases is largely rooted in the processing of volatile elements in protoplanetary disks. To shed light on the key processes, we carry out a comparative analysis of the gas-phase carbon abundance in two…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 M. Kama , S. Bruderer , E. F. van Dishoeck , M. Hogerheijde , C. P. Folsom , A. Miotello , D. Fedele , A. Belloche , R. Güsten , F. Wyrowski

Sulfur is a critical element to life on Earth, and with detections of sulfur-bearing molecules in exoplanets and comets, questions arise as to how sulfur is incorporated into planets in the first place. In order to understand sulfur's…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Becky J. Williams , L. Ilsedore Cleeves , Rachel E. Gross , Jackson Baker

The sulfur chemistry in protoplanetary disks influences the properties of nascent planets, including potential habitability. Although the inventory of sulfur molecules in disks has gradually increased over the last decade, CS is still the…

The composition of a planet's atmosphere is intricately linked to the chemical makeup of the protoplanetary disk in which it formed. Determining the elemental abundances from key volatiles within disks is therefore essential for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-03 Luke Keyte , Mihkel Kama , Alice S. Booth , Charles J. Law , Margot Leemker

The abundance and distribution of sulfur-bearing molecules in protoplanetary disks directly influences the composition and potential habitability of nascent planets in addition to providing powerful probes of the physical gas conditions in…

Sulfur chemistry in the formation process of low-mass stars and planets remains poorly understood. The protoplanetary disks (PPDs) are the birthplace of planets and its distinctive environment provides an intriguing platform for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-13 Rong Ma , Donghui Quan , Yan Zhou , Jarken Esimbek , Dalei Li , Xiaohu Li , Xia Zhang , Juan Tuo , Yanan Feng

High-resolution observations show that typically both the dust and the gas in nearby extended protoplanetary disks are structured, possibly related to radial and azimuthal variations in the disk density and/or chemistry. The aim of this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-20 M. Leemker , A. S. Booth , E. F. van Dishoeck , L. Wölfer , B. Dent

Sulfur-bearing molecules play an important role in prebiotic chemistry and planet habitability. They are also proposed probes of chemical ages, elemental C/O ratio, and grain chemistry processing. Commonly detected in diverse astrophysical…

The sulfur chemistry in protoplanetary disks directly affects the composition and potential habitability of nascent planets, but its volatile inventory remains highly uncertain. Here, we present deep Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…

Volatiles are compounds with low sublimation temperatures, and they make up most of the condensible mass in typical planet-forming environments. They consist of relatively small, often hydrogenated, molecules based on the abundant elements…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Klaus M. Pontoppidan , Colette Salyk , Edwin A. Bergin , Sean Brittain , Bernard Marty , Olvier Mousis , Karin L. Oberg

Sulfur is a volatile chemical element that plays an important role in tracing the chemical evolution of galaxies. However, its nucleosynthesis origin and abundance variations are still unclear. The goal of the present article is to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-31 J. Perdigon , P. de Laverny , A. Recio-Blanco , E. Fernandez-Alvar , P. Santos-Peral , G. Kordopatis , M. A. Alvarez

Sulfur is one of the most abundant elements in the Universe, with important roles in astro-, geo-, and biochemistry. Its main reservoirs in planet-forming disks have previously eluded detection: gaseous molecules only account for $<1\,$\%…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-04 Mihkel Kama , Oliver Shorttle , Adam S. Jermyn , Colin P. Folsom , Kenji Furuya , Edwin A. Bergin , Catherine Walsh , Lindsay Keller

Gas-phase sulphur bearing volatiles appear to be severely depleted in protoplanetary disks. The detection of CS and non-detections of SO and SO2 in many disks have shown that the gas in the warm molecular layer, where giant planets accrete…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 A. S. Booth , N. van der Marel , M. Leemker , E. F. van Dishoeck , S. Ohashi

Sulphur-bearing volatiles are observed to be significantly depleted in interstellar and circumstellar regions. This missing sulphur is postulated to be mostly locked up in refractory form. With ALMA we have detected sulphur monoxide (SO), a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-16 Alice Booth , Catherine Walsh , Mihkel Kama , Ryan A. Loomis , Luke T. Maud , Attila Juhász

Observations of JWST have revealed that several close-in exoplanets have sulfur-rich atmospheres through SO$_2$ detections. Atmospheric sulfur is often thought to originate from solid accretion during planet formation, whereas recent…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 Kanon Nakazawa , Kazumasa Ohno

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

The phosphorus budget of planets is intertwined with their formation history and is thought to influence their habitability. The chemical reservoirs and volatile \emph{vs} refractory budget of phosphorus in planet-forming environments have…

Context. Several sulfur-bearing molecules are observed in the interstellar medium and in comets, in strong contrast to protoplanetary disks where only CS, H$_2$CS and SO have been detected so far. Aims. We combine observations and chemical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-12 D. Semenov , C. Favre , D. Fedele , S. Guilloteau , R. Teague , Th. Henning , A. Dutrey , E. Chapillon , F. Hersant , V. Piétu

The nature and abundance of sulfur chemistry in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) may impact the sulfur inventory on young planets and therefore their habitability. PPDs also present an interesting test bed for sulfur chemistry models, since each…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-15 Romane Le Gal , Karin I. Öberg , Ryan Loomis , Jamila Pegues , Jennifer B. Bergner

Studying the physical conditions in circumstellar disks is a crucial step toward understanding planet formation. Of particular interest is the case of HD 100546, a Herbig Be star that presents a gap within the first 13 AU of its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 E. Tatulli , M. Benisty , F. Ménard , P. Varnière , C. Martin-Zaidi , W. -F. Thi , C. Pinte , F. Massi , G. Weigelt , K. -H. Hofmann , R. G. Petrov
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