Search Results - "Henning, Thomas"
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Cosmic Silicates
Published in Annual review of astronomy and astrophysics (01-01-2010)“…Silicate dust particles are an important player in the cosmic life cycle of matter. They have been detected in a wide variety of environments, ranging from…”
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From Cold to Hot Irradiated Gaseous Exoplanets: Fingerprints of Chemical Disequilibrium in Atmospheric Spectra
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-10-2019)“…Almost all planetary atmospheres are affected by disequilibrium chemical processes. In this paper, we introduce our recently developed chemical kinetic model…”
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The Role of Clouds on the Depletion of Methane and Water Dominance in the Transmission Spectra of Irradiated Exoplanets
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-08-2020)“…Observations suggest an abundance of water and a paucity of methane in the majority of observed exoplanetary atmospheres. We isolate the effect of atmospheric…”
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From Cold to Hot Irradiated Gaseous Exoplanets: Toward an Observation-based Classification Scheme
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-03-2019)“…A carbon-to-oxygen ratio (C/O) of around unity is believed to act as a natural separator of water- and methane-dominated spectra when characterizing exoplanet…”
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Unfolding the Laws of Star Formation: The Density Distribution of Molecular Clouds
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (11-04-2014)“…The formation of stars shapes the structure and evolution of entire galaxies. The rate and efficiency of this process are affected substantially by the density…”
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Origin of the RNA world: The fate of nucleobases in warm little ponds
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (24-10-2017)“…Before the origin of simple cellular life, the building blocks of RNA (nucleotides) had to form and polymerize in favorable environments on early Earth. At…”
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Ice Coverage of Dust Grains in Cold Astrophysical Environments
Published in Physical review letters (05-06-2020)“…Surface processes on cosmic solids in cold astrophysical environments lead to gas-phase depletion and molecular complexity. Most astrophysical models assume…”
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Three-dimensional Simulation of Massive Star Formation in the Disk Accretion Scenario
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2011)“…The most massive stars can form via standard disk accretion--despite the radiation pressure generated--due to the fact that the massive accretion disk yields a…”
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Temperature Programmed Desorption of Water Ice from the Surface of Amorphous Carbon and Silicate Grains as Related to Planet-forming Disks
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-09-2018)“…Understanding the history and evolution of small bodies, such as dust grains and comets, in planet-forming disks is very important to reveal the architectural…”
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Interpreting the Atmospheric Composition of Exoplanets: Sensitivity to Planet Formation Assumptions
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-07-2022)“…Abstract Constraining planet formation based on the atmospheric composition of exoplanets is a fundamental goal of the exoplanet community. Existing studies…”
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Separate Silicate and Carbonaceous Solids Formed from Mixed Atomic and Molecular Species Diffusing in Neon Ice
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-04-2020)“…The formation and growth of refractory matter on pre-existing interstellar dust grain surfaces was studied experimentally by annealing neon-ice matrices in…”
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Radiation Hydrodynamical Turbulence in Protoplanetary Disks: Numerical Models and Observational Constraints
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-12-2017)“…Planets are born in protostellar disks, which are now observed with enough resolution to address questions about internal gas flows. Magnetic forces are…”
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Temperature, Mass, and Turbulence: A Spatially Resolved Multiband Non-LTE Analysis of CS in TW Hya
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-09-2018)“…Observations of multiple rotational transitions from a single molecule allow for unparalleled constraints on the physical conditions of the emitting region. We…”
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Trapped Water on Silicates in the Laboratory and in Astrophysical Environments
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-04-2024)“…Abstract The existence of strongly bound water molecules on silicate surfaces, above the desorption temperature of water ice, was first predicted by…”
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H i-to-H2 Transition Layers in the Star-forming Region W43
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2017)“…The process of atomic-to-molecular (H i-to-H2) gas conversion is fundamental for molecular-cloud formation and star formation. 21 cm observations of the…”
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Gas-phase Condensation of Carbonated Silicate Grains
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2024)“…Abstract Reports on the detection of carbonates in planetary nebulae (PNe) and protostars have suggested the existence of a mechanism that produces these…”
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The Radial Distribution of Dust Particles in the HL Tau Disk from ALMA and VLA Observations
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-09-2019)“…Understanding planet formation requires one to discern how dust grows in protoplanetary disks. An important parameter to measure in disks is the maximum dust…”
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The link between magnetic fields and filamentary clouds: bimodal cloud orientations in the Gould Belt
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-12-2013)“…The orientations of filamentary molecular clouds in the Gould Belt and their local intercloud media (ICM) magnetic fields are studied using near-infrared dust…”
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Ground-based detection of an extended helium atmosphere in the Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-69b
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (21-12-2018)“…Hot gas giant exoplanets can lose part of their atmosphere due to strong stellar irradiation, affecting their physical and chemical evolution. Studies of…”
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Molecular Gas in Debris Disks around Young A-type Stars
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-11-2017)“…According to the current paradigm of circumstellar disk evolution, gas-rich primordial disks evolve into gas-poor debris disks that are composed of…”
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