Molecular structure of brown-dwarf disks

Details Molecular structure of brown-dwarf disks Molecular structure of brown-dwarf disks

Nov 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008arep...52..941w&link_type=abstract

Astronomy Reports, Volume 52, Issue 11, pp.941-949

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Pre-Main Sequence Objects, Young Stellar Objects And Protostars, Low Luminosity Stars, Subdwarfs, And Brown Dwarfs, Abundances, Chemical Composition

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We describe typical features of the chemical composition of proto-planetary disks around brown dwarfs. We model the chemical evolution in the disks around a low-mass T Tauri star and a cooler brown dwarf over a time span of 1 Myr using a model for the physical structure of an accretion disk with a vertical temperature gradient and an extensive set of gas-phase chemical reactions. We find that the disks of T Tauri stars are, in general, hotter and denser than the disks of lower-luminosity substellar objects. In addition, they have more pronounced vertical temperature gradients. The atmospheres of the disks around low-mass stars are more strongly ionized by UV and X-ray radiation, while less dense brown-dwarf disks have higher fractional ionizations in their midplanes. Nevertheless, in both cases, most molecules are concentrated in the so-called warm molecular layer between the ionized atmosphere and cold midplane, where grains with ice mantles are abundant.

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