The Composition of the Protosolar Disk and the Formation Conditions for Comets
Reviewartikel, 2015
Conditions in the protosolar nebula have left their mark in the composition of cometary volatiles, thought to be some of the most pristine material in the solar system. Cometary compositions represent the end point of processing that began in the parent molecular cloud core and continued through the collapse of that core to form the protosun and the solar nebula, and finally during the evolution of the solar nebula itself as the cometary bodies were accreting. Disentangling the effects of the various epochs on the final composition of a comet is complicated. But comets are not the only source of information about the solar nebula. Protostellar disks around young stars similar to the protosun provide a way of investigating the evolution of disks similar to the solar nebula while they are in the process of evolving to form their own solar systems. In this way we can learn about the physical and chemical conditions under which comets formed, and about the types of dynamical processing that shaped the solar system we see today.
This paper summarizes some recent contributions to our understanding of both cometary volatiles and the composition, structure and evolution of protostellar disks.
Comets
Solar nebula
Chemistry
Protostellar disks
Författare
K. Willacy
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
C. Alexander
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
M. Ali-Dib
Université de Franche-Comté
C. Ceccarelli
Université Grenoble Alpes
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
S. B. Charnley
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
M. Doronin
Sorbonne Université
Y. Ellinger
Sorbonne Université
P. Gast
Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
E. Gibb
University of Missouri
S. N. Milam
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
O. Mousis
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
F. Pauzat
Sorbonne Université
C. Tornow
Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
Eva Wirström
Chalmers, Rymd- och geovetenskap, Radioastronomi och astrofysik
E. Zicler
Sorbonne Université
Space Science Reviews
0038-6308 (ISSN) 1572-9672 (eISSN)
Vol. 197 1-4 151-190Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2011)
Fysik
Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi
Fundament
Grundläggande vetenskaper
DOI
10.1007/s11214-015-0167-6