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Interstellar Methanol from the Lab to Protoplanetary Disks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2017

Maria N. Drozdovskaya
Affiliation:
Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9513, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands email: drozdovskaya@strw.leidenuniv.nl
Catherine Walsh
Affiliation:
Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9513, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands email: drozdovskaya@strw.leidenuniv.nl
Ruud Visser
Affiliation:
ESO
Daniel Harsono
Affiliation:
University of Heidelberg
Ewine F. van Dishoeck
Affiliation:
Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9513, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands email: drozdovskaya@strw.leidenuniv.nl MPE
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Interstellar methanol is thought to be the precursor of larger, more complex organic molecules. It holds a central role in many astrochemical models (e.g., Garrod & Herbst 2006). Methanol has also been the focus of several laboratory studies (e.g., Watanabe et al. 2004, Fuchs et al. 2009), in an effort to gain insight into grain-surface chemistry, which potentially builds chemical complexity already in the cold, dark prestellar phase. The case of methanol is a prime example of experimental work having implications on astronomical scales. Drozdovskaya et al. (2014) unified physical and chemical models to simulate infalling material during the birth of a low-mass protostar. An axisymmetric 2D semi-analytic collapse model (Visser et al. 2009), wavelength-dependent radiative transfer calculations with RADMC3D (Dullemond & Dominik 2004) and a comprehensive gas-grain chemical network (Walsh et al. 2014) were used to study two modes of protoplanetary disk formation.

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