Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Apr 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010apj...713l..59d&link_type=abstract
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 713, Issue 1, pp. L59-L63 (2010).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Astrochemistry, Evolution, Meteorites, Meteors, Meteoroids, Molecular Processes, Planets And Satellities: Formation, Sun: Abundances
Scientific paper
The oldest solids formed in the solar system, calcium-aluminum inclusions, are 16O-enriched compared to chondrules, asteroids, Earth, and Mars. Based on the preliminary measurements of the solar wind by Genesis, the Sun also appears to be 16O-enriched. This distribution of oxygen isotopes in the solar system cannot be reconciled via conventional mass-dependent isotopic fractionation processes and instead require the existence and/or production of distinct 16O-enriched and 16O-depleted reservoirs in the early solar system. The origin of these distinct reservoirs is unknown, although several mechanisms have been proposed to date including the following: (1) the injection of pure 16O by a supernova into the protoplanetary disk or parent molecular cloud, (2) self-shielding of CO in the parent molecular cloud or protoplanetary disk, (3) symmetry-dependent chemical fractionation processes in the protoplanetary disk, and (4) Galactic chemical evolution. While some of these proposals have been ruled out, the validity of others is still open. Here I propose that the 16O-enriched and 16O-depleted reservoirs present in the early solar system originated in the parent molecular cloud via the heterogeneous chemical processes that form H2O, a significant oxygen reservoir, on the surface of interstellar (IS) dust grains in dense molecular clouds, the astrophysical setting where star formation is observed to occur. As a consequence, this model predicts that molecular cloud H2O and possibly other IS solids inherited from the molecular cloud were depleted in 16O compared to the bulk gas-phase O present, thus providing distinct 16O reservoirs at the earliest stages of planetary formation.
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