Protoplanetary disk chemistry

KI Öberg, S Facchini… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). I. Program overview and highlights

KI Öberg, VV Guzmán, C Walsh, Y Aikawa… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Planets form and obtain their compositions in dust-and gas-rich disks around young stars,
and the outcome of this process is intimately linked to the disk chemical properties. The …

A highly settled disk around oph163131

M Villenave, KR Stapelfeldt, G Duchêne… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
High dust density in the midplane of protoplanetary disks is favorable for efficient grain
growth and can allow fast formation of planetesimals and planets, before disks dissipate …

Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). II. CLEAN strategies for synthesizing images of molecular line emission in protoplanetary disks

I Czekala, RA Loomis, R Teague… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales Large Program (MAPS LP) surveyed the
chemical structures of five protoplanetary disks across more than 40 different spectral lines …

Molecules with ALMA at planet-forming scales (MAPS). III. Characteristics of radial chemical substructures

CJ Law, RA Loomis, R Teague, KI Öberg… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS) Large Program provides a
detailed, high-resolution (∼ 10–20 au) view of molecular line emission in five protoplanetary …

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). II. Limited Dust Settling and Prominent Snow Surfaces in the Edge-on Class I Disk IRAS 04302+ 2247

ZYD Lin, ZY Li, JJ Tobin, N Ohashi… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
While dust disks around optically visible, Class II protostars are found to be vertically thin,
when and how dust settles to the midplane are unclear. As part of the Atacama Large …

Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). XVIII. Kinematic Substructures in the Disks of HD 163296 and MWC 480

R Teague, J Bae, Y Aikawa, SM Andrews… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore the dynamical structure of the protoplanetary disks surrounding HD 163296 and
MWC 480 as part of the Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS) large …

The Disc Miner-II. Revealing gas substructures and kinematic signatures from planet-disc interaction through line profile analysis

AF Izquierdo, L Testi, S Facchini, GP Rosotti… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Detecting planets in the early stages of formation is key to reconstructing the history and
diversity of fully developed planetary systems. The aim of this work is to identify potential …

Chemistry in protoplanetary disks

K Zhang - Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
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 …

Directly tracing the vertical stratification of molecules in protoplanetary disks

T Paneque-Carreño, A Miotello… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The specific location from where molecules emit in a protoplanetary disk depends
on the system properties. Therefore, directly constraining the emitting regions radially …