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Snowlines of major volatiles regulate the gas and solid C/N/O ratios in the planet-forming midplanes of protoplanetary disks. Snow surfaces are the 2D extensions of snowlines in the outer disk regions, where radiative heating results in a…

We present a survey of the ortho-H2D+(1_{1,0}-1_{1,1}) line toward a sample of 10 starless cores and 6 protostellar cores, carried out at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. The high diagnostic power of this line is revealed for the…

A number of metal-rich white dwarfs (WDs) are known to host compact, dense particle disks, which are thought to be responsible for metal pollution of these stars. In many such systems the inner radii of disks inferred from their spectra are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Roman R. Rafikov , Jose A. Garmilla

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

Edge Cloud 2 (EC2) is a molecular cloud, about 35 pc in size, with one of the largest galactocentric distances known to exist in the Milky Way. We present observations of a peak CO emission region in the cloud and use these to determine its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. M. E. Ruffle , T. J. Millar , H. Roberts , D. A. Lubowich , C. Henkel , J. M. Pasachoff , G. Brammer , .

(Abridged) Aims & Methods. A two-dimensional, semi-analytical model is presented that follows, for the first time, the chemical evolution from a collapsing molecular cloud (a pre-stellar core) to a protostar and circumstellar disk. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Visser , E. F. van Dishoeck , S. D. Doty , C. P. Dullemond

Abridged: Recent simulations have explored different ways to form accretion disks around low-mass stars. We aim to present observables to differentiate a rotationally supported disk from an infalling rotating envelope toward deeply embedded…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-29 Daniel Harsono , Ewine van Dishoeck , Simon Bruderer , Zhi-Yun Li , Jes Jorgensen

CO gas has been detected in $\sim$20 debris discs. We present ALMA observations of the CO-rich HD 121617 debris disc from the ARKS survey. Using high-resolution Band 7 observations of $^{12}CO \ J=3-2$, we analyse local CO line profiles to…

We derive distance, density and metallicity distribution of the stellar Monoceros Overdensity (MO) in the outer Milky Way, based on deep imaging with the Subaru Telescope. We applied CMD fitting techniques in three stripes at galactic…

We present JWST imaging from 2$\mu$m to 21$\mu$m of the edge-on protoplanetary disk around the embedded young star IRAS04302+2247. The structure of the source shows two reflection nebulae separated by a dark lane. The source extent is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-15 M. Villenave , K. R. Stapelfeldt , G. Duchene , F. Menard , S. G. Wolff , M. D. Perrin , C. Pinte , R. Tazaki , D. Padgett

CO is the most widely used gas tracer of protoplanetary disks. Its abundance is usually assumed to be an interstellar ratio throughout the warm molecular layer of the disk. But recent observations of low CO gas abundance in many…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Ke Zhang , Edwin A. Bergin , Kamber R. Schwarz , Sebastiaan Krijt , Fred Ciesla

[Abridged] We present a detailed study of the physical properties of the molecular gas in a sample of 18 molecular gas-rich early-type galaxies (ETGs) from the ATLAS$ 3D sample. Our goal is to better understand the star formation processes…

Fully sampled degree-scale maps of the 13CO 2-1 and CO 4-3 transitions toward three members of the Lupus Molecular Cloud Complex - Lupus I, III, and IV - trace the column density and temperature of the molecular gas. Comparison with IR…

We analyze the vertical distribution of the resolved stellar populations in six low-mass, edge-on, spiral galaxies observed with the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys. In each galaxy we find evidence for an extraplanar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Anil C. Seth , Julianne J. Dalcanton , Roelof S. de Jong

This is the fourth paper in a series in which we attempt to put constraints on the flattening of dark halos in disk galaxies. We observed for this purpose the HI in edge-on galaxies, where it is in principle possible to measure the force…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. C. O'Brien , K. C. Freeman , P. C. van der Kruit

The gas near the midplanes of planet-forming protostellar disks remains largely unprobed by observations due to the high optical depth of commonly observed molecules such as CO and H$_2$O. However, rotational emission lines from rare…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Mo Yu , Karen Willacy , Sarah E. Dodson-Robinson , Neal J. Turner , Neal J. Evans

We studied a sample of 58 edge-on spiral galaxies at redshifts $z \sim 1$ selected in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. For all galaxies we analyzed the 2D brightness distributions in the $V_{606}$ and $i_{775}$ filters and measured the radial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 V. P. Reshetnikov , P. A. Usachev , S. S. Savchenko

CO is one of the most abundant molecules in protoplanetary disks, and optically thin emission from its isotopologues has been detected in many of them. However, several past works have argued that reproducing the relatively low emission of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-17 Dingshan Deng , Maxime Ruaud , Uma Gorti , Ilaria Pascucci

The availability of exquisite data and the development of new analysis techniques have enabled the study of emitting heights in proto-planetary disks. In this paper we introduce a simple model linking the emitting height of CO to the disk…

The chemical evolution in high-mass star-forming regions is still poorly constrained. Studying the evolution of deuterated molecules allows to differentiate between subsequent stages of high-mass star formation regions due to the strong…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-15 Th. Gerner , Y. Shirley , H. Beuther , D. Semenov , H. Linz , T. Abertsson , Th. Henning