期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 723, 期 1, 页码 514-529出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/723/1/514
关键词
astrochemistry; comets: general; meteorites, meteors, meteoroids; methods: numerical; protoplanetary disks
资金
- NASA [NNX08AY47G]
- NASA [92177, NNX08AY47G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
The chemical and physical evolution of primitive materials in protoplanetary disks are determined by the types of environments they are exposed to and their residence times within each environment. Here, a method for calculating representative paths of materials in diffusive protoplanetary disks is developed and applied to understanding how the vertical trajectories that particles take impact their overall evolution. The methods are general enough to be applied to disks with uniform diffusivity, the so-called constant-alpha cases, and disks with a spatially varying diffusivity, such as expected in layered-disks. The average long-term dynamical evolution of small particles and gaseous molecules is independent of the specific form of the diffusivity in that they spend comparable fractions of their lifetimes at different heights in the disk. However, the paths that individual particles and molecules take depend strongly on the form of the diffusivity leading to a different range of behavior of particles in terms of deviations from the mean. As temperatures, gas densities, chemical abundances, and photon fluxes will vary with height in protoplanetary disks, the different paths taken by primitive materials will lead to differences in their chemical and physical evolution. Examples of differences in gas phase chemistry and photochemistry are explored here. The methods outlined here provide a powerful tool that can be integrated with chemical models to understand the formation and evolution of primitive materials in protoplanetary disks on timescales of 10(5)-10(6) years.
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