Chemistry in Protoplanetary Disks

Thomas Henning, Dmitry Semenov (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg) (Submitted on 11 Oct 2013)

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 highlighted. We discuss which molecular probes are used to derive gas temperature, density, ionization state, kinematics, deuterium fractionation, and study organic matter in protoplanetary disks.

Comments: 83 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables, to be published in a Thematic Issue “Astrochemistry” in Chem. Reviews (December 2013). This document is the unedited Author’s version of a Submitted Work that was subsequently accepted for publication in Chemical Reviews, copyright (c) American Chemical Society after peer review

Subjects: Galaxy Astrophysics (astro-ph.GA); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

Cite as: arXiv:1310.3151 [astro-ph.GA] (or arXiv:1310.3151v1 [astro-ph.GA] for this version)

Submission history From: Dmitry Semenov Dr. [v1] Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:57:28 GMT (5867kb)