Astrochemistry and compositions of planetary systems

KI Öberg, EA Bergin - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Astrochemistry during the formation of stars

JK Jørgensen, A Belloche… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Star-forming regions show a rich and varied chemistry, including the presence of complex
organic molecules—in both the cold gas distributed on large scales and the hot regions …

An Ice Age JWST inventory of dense molecular cloud ices

MK McClure, WRM Rocha, KM Pontoppidan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Icy grain mantles are the main reservoir of the volatile elements that link chemical processes
in dark, interstellar clouds with the formation of planets and the composition of their …

Formation of complex organic molecules in hot molecular cores through nondiffusive grain-surface and ice-mantle chemistry

RT Garrod, M Jin, KA Matis, D Jones… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
A new, more comprehensive model of gas–grain chemistry in hot molecular cores is
presented, in which nondiffusive reaction processes on dust-grain surfaces and in ice …

The ALMA Protostellar Interferometric Line Survey (PILS)-first results from an unbiased submillimeter wavelength line survey of the Class 0 protostellar binary IRAS …

JK Jørgensen, MHD Van der Wiel, A Coutens… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
Context. The inner regions of the envelopes surrounding young protostars are characterized
by a complex chemistry, with prebiotic molecules present on the scales where …

A non-energetic mechanism for glycine formation in the interstellar medium

S Ioppolo, G Fedoseev, KJ Chuang, HM Cuppen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The detection of the amino acid glycine and its amine precursor methylamine on the comet
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by the Rosetta mission provides strong evidence for a cosmic …

CORINOS. I. JWST/MIRI spectroscopy and imaging of a class 0 protostar IRAS 15398–3359

YL Yang, JD Green, KM Pontoppidan… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The origin of complex organic molecules (COMs) in young Class 0 protostars has been one
of the major questions in astrochemistry and star formation. While COMs are thought to form …

Gas and grain chemical composition in cold cores as predicted by the Nautilus three-phase model

M Ruaud, V Wakelam, F Hersant - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We present an extended version of the two-phase gas–grain code nautilus to the three-
phase modelling of gas and grain chemistry of cold cores. In this model, both the mantle and …

Grain surface models and data for astrochemistry

HM Cuppen, C Walsh, T Lamberts, D Semenov… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
The cross-disciplinary field of astrochemistry exists to understand the formation, destruction,
and survival of molecules in astrophysical environments. Molecules in space are …

First detection of gas-phase methanol in a protoplanetary disk

C Walsh, RA Loomis, KI Öberg, M Kama… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The first detection of gas-phase methanol in a protoplanetary disk (TW Hya) is presented. In
addition to being one of the largest molecules detected in disks to date, methanol is also the …