Search Results - "Blake, Geoffrey A."
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Two-dimensional infrared-Raman spectroscopy as a probe of water’s tetrahedrality
Published in Nature communications (07-04-2023)“…Two-dimensional spectroscopic techniques combining terahertz (THz), infrared (IR), and visible pulses offer a wealth of information about coupling among…”
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Breaking Degeneracies in Formation Histories by Measuring Refractory Content in Gas Giants
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2023)“…Abstract Relating planet formation to atmospheric composition has been a long-standing goal of the planetary science community. So far, most modeling studies…”
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Tracing the ingredients for a habitable earth from interstellar space through planet formation
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (21-07-2015)“…We use the C/N ratio as a monitor of the delivery of key ingredients of life to nascent terrestrial worlds. Total elemental C and N contents, and their ratio,…”
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Discovery of the interstellar chiral molecule propylene oxide (CH₃CHCH₂O)
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (17-06-2016)“…Life on Earth relies on chiral molecules—that is, species not superimposable on their mirror images. This manifests itself in the selection of a single…”
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Unlocking CO Depletion in Protoplanetary Disks. I. The Warm Molecular Layer
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-03-2018)“…CO is commonly used as a tracer of the total gas mass in both the interstellar medium and in protoplanetary disks. Recently, there has been much debate about…”
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The Structure and Dynamics of Molecular Gas in Planet-forming Zones: A CRIRES Spectro-astrometric Survey
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-06-2011)“…We present a spectro-astrometric survey of molecular gas in the inner regions of 16 protoplanetary disks using CRIRES, the high-resolution infrared imaging…”
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Imaging of the CO Snow Line in a Solar Nebula Analog
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (09-08-2013)“…Planets form in the disks around young stars. Their formation efficiency and composition are intimately linked to the protoplanetary disk locations of "snow…”
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The TW Hya Rosetta Stone Project. III. Resolving the Gaseous Thermal Profile of the Disk
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2021)“…Abstract The thermal structure of protoplanetary disks is a fundamental characteristic of the system that has wide-reaching effects on disk evolution and…”
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The Evolution of Disk Winds from a Combined Study of Optical and Infrared Forbidden Lines
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-11-2020)“…We analyze high-resolution (Δv ≤ 10 km s−1) optical and infrared spectra covering the [O i] λ6300 and [Ne ii] 12.81 m lines from a sample of 31 disks in…”
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Coherent two-dimensional terahertz-terahertz-Raman spectroscopy
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (21-06-2016)“…We present 2D terahertz-terahertz-Raman (2D TTR) spectroscopy, the first technique, to our knowledge, to interrogate a liquid with multiple pulses of terahertz…”
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Destruction of Refractory Carbon in Protoplanetary Disks
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-08-2017)“…The Earth and other rocky bodies in the inner solar system contain significantly less carbon than the primordial materials that seeded their formation. These…”
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Ocean-like water in the Jupiter-family comet 103P/Hartley 2
Published in Nature (London) (13-10-2011)“…A drop in the ocean Earth's bulk composition is similar to that of a group of oxygen-poor meteorites called enstatite chondrites, thought to have formed in the…”
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Unlocking CO Depletion in Protoplanetary Disks. II. Primordial C/H Predictions inside the CO Snowline
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-06-2019)“…CO is thought to be the main reservoir of volatile carbon in protoplanetary disks, and thus the primary initial source of carbon in the atmospheres of forming…”
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An Evolutionary Study of Volatile Chemistry in Protoplanetary Disks
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-08-2020)“…The volatile composition of a planet is determined by the inventory of gas and ice in the parent disk. The volatile chemistry in the disk is expected to evolve…”
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MEASUREMENTS OF WATER SURFACE SNOW LINES IN CLASSICAL PROTOPLANETARY DISKS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-02-2016)“…ABSTRACT We present deep Herschel-PACS spectroscopy of far-infrared water lines from a sample of four protoplanetary disks around solar-mass stars, selected to…”
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A High-resolution Mid-infrared Survey of Water Emission from Protoplanetary Disks
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-03-2019)“…We present the largest survey of spectrally resolved mid-infrared water emission to date, with spectra for 11 disks obtained with the Michelle and TEXES…”
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The Nitrogen Carrier in Inner Protoplanetary Disks
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-03-2019)“…The dominant reservoirs of elemental nitrogen in protoplanetary disks have not yet been observationally identified. Likely candidates are HCN, NH3, and N2. The…”
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Molecular Gas Tracers in Young and Old Protoplanetary Disks
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2024)“…Abstract Molecular emission is used to investigate both the physical and chemical properties of protoplanetary disks. Therefore, to derive disk properties…”
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Detection of the Water Reservoir in a Forming Planetary System
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (21-10-2011)“…Icy bodies may have delivered the oceans to the early Earth, yet little is known about water in the ice-dominated regions of extrasolar planet-forming disks…”
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An ALMA Survey of H2CO in Protoplanetary Disks
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-02-2020)“…H2CO is one of the most abundant organic molecules in protoplanetary disks and can serve as a precursor to more complex organic chemistry. We present an…”
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