Abstract:During the first few ~Myr of a young stars life, it is encircled by a disk made up of molecular gas, dust, and ice – the building blocks for future planetary systems. How/when these disks form planets and what sets the planets initial compositions remain key outstanding questions in disk science. In recent years, major leaps in sensitivity and spatial resolution afforded by the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) have revolutionized our understanding of protoplanetary disks chemical composition… Show more
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