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Exploring the Origins of Deuterium Enrichments in Solar Nebular Organics | | L. Ilsedore Cleeves
; Edwin A. Bergin
; Conel M. O'D. Alexander
; Fujun Du
; Dawn Graninger
; Karin I. Öberg
; Tim J. Harries
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21 Jan 2016 | | Abstract: | Deuterium-to-hydrogen (D/H) enrichments in molecular species provide clues
about their original formation environment. The organic materials in primitive
solar system bodies have generally higher D/H ratios and show greater D/H
variation when compared to D/H in solar system water. We propose this
difference arises at least in part due to 1) the availability of additional
chemical fractionation pathways for organics beyond that for water, and 2) the
higher volatility of key carbon reservoirs compared to oxygen. We test this
hypothesis using detailed disk models, including a sophisticated, new disk
ionization treatment with a low cosmic ray ionization rate, and find that disk
chemistry leads to higher deuterium enrichment in organics compared to water,
helped especially by fractionation via the precursors CH$_2$D$^+$/CH$_3^+$. We
also find that the D/H ratio in individual species varies significantly
depending on their particular formation pathways. For example, from $sim20-40$
AU, CH$_4$ can reach $
m{D/Hsim2 imes10^{-3}}$, while D/H in CH$_3$OH
remains locally unaltered. Finally, while the global organic D/H in our models
can reproduce intermediately elevated D/H in the bulk hydrocarbon reservoir,
our models are unable to reproduce the most deuterium-enriched organic
materials in the solar system, and thus our model requires some inheritance
from the cold interstellar medium from which the Sun formed. | | Source: | arXiv, 1601.7465 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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