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Planets form in disks of gas and dust around young stars. The disk molecular reservoirs and their chemical evolution affect all aspects of planet formation, from the coagulation of dust grains into pebbles, to the elemental and molecular…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 Karin I. Öberg , Stefano Facchini , Dana E. Anderson

Planets are formed inside disks around young stars. The gas, dust, and ice in these natal disks are the building materials of planets, and therefore their compositions fundamentally shape the final chemical compositions of planets. In this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-25 Ke Zhang

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…

Planets form and obtain their compositions in disks of gas and dust around young stars. The chemical compositions of these planet-forming disks regulate all aspects of planetary compositions from bulk elemental inventories to access to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Karin I. Oberg , Edwin A. Bergin

Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planetary systems. The evolution of the star-disk system and the disk chemical composition determines the initial conditions for planet formation. Therefore a comprehensive understanding of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Ch. Rab , C. Baldovin-Saavedra , O. Dionatos , E. Vorobyov , Manuel Güdel

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…

Planets form and obtain their compositions from the leftover material present in protoplanetary disks of dust and gas surrounding young stars. The chemical make-up of a disk influences every aspect of planetary composition including their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Martin Bizzarro , Anders Johansen , Caroline Dorn

VLT instruments and ALMA have revolutionized in the past five years our view and understanding of how disks turn into planetary systems. They provide exquisite insights into non-axisymmetric structures likely closely related to ongoing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-22 I. Kamp

The chemical composition of a protoplanetary disk is determined not only by in situ chemical processes during the disk phase, but also by the history of the gas and dust before it accreted from the natal envelope. In order to understand the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Ruud Visser , Ewine F. van Dishoeck , Steven D. Doty

(English) In this lecture I discuss recent progress in the understanding of the chemical evolution of protoplanetary disks that resemble our Solar system during the first ten million years. At the verge of planet formation, strong…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-02-27 Dmitry A. Semenov

In this paper we review recent progress in our understanding of the chemical evolution of protoplanetary disks. Current observational constraints and theoretical modeling on the chemical composition of gas and dust in these systems are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Dmitry A. Semenov

Protoplanetary disks (PPDs) surrounding young stars are short-lived (~0.3-10 Myr), compact (~10-1000 AU) rotating reservoirs of gas and dust. PPDs are believed to be birthplaces of planetary systems, where tiny grains are assembled into…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-11-23 Dmitry Semenov

This paper provides a brief summary and overview of the astrochemistry associated with the formation of stars and planets. It is aimed at new researchers in the field to enable them to obtain a quick overview of the landscape and key…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-04 Ewine F. van Dishoeck , Edwin A. Bergin

The origins of planets, and perhaps life itself, is intrinsically linked to the chemistry of planet formation. In this chapter we will attempt to explore the chemistry of planet-forming disks from the perspective of knowledge gained from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-27 Edwin A. Bergin

Giant planets can interact with multiple and chemically diverse environments in protoplanetary discs while they form and migrate to their final orbits. The way this interaction affects the accretion of gas and solids shapes the chemical…

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

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

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

This comprehensive review summarizes our current understanding of the evolution of gas, solids and molecular ices in protoplanetary disks. Key findings related to disk physics and chemistry, both observationally and theoretically, are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-10-14 Thomas Henning , Dmitry Semenov
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