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. 2024 Mar;383(6686):988-992.
doi: 10.1126/science.adh2861. Epub 2024 Feb 29.

A far-ultraviolet-driven photoevaporation flow observed in a protoplanetary disk

Olivier Berné  1 Emilie Habart  2 Els Peeters  3   4   5 Ilane Schroetter  1 Amélie Canin  1 Ameek Sidhu  3   4 Ryan Chown  3   4 Emeric Bron  6 Thomas J Haworth  7 Pamela Klaassen  8 Boris Trahin  2 Dries Van De Putte  9 Felipe Alarcón  10 Marion Zannese  2 Alain Abergel  2 Edwin A Bergin  10 Jeronimo Bernard-Salas  11   12 Christiaan Boersma  13 Jan Cami  3   4   5 Sara Cuadrado  14 Emmanuel Dartois  15 Daniel Dicken  2 Meriem Elyajouri  2 Asunción Fuente  16 Javier R Goicoechea  14 Karl D Gordon  9   17 Lina Issa  1 Christine Joblin  1 Olga Kannavou  2 Baria Khan  3 Ozan Lacinbala  2 David Languignon  6 Romane Le Gal  1   18   19 Alexandros Maragkoudakis  13 Raphael Meshaka  2 Yoko Okada  20 Takashi Onaka  21   22 Sofia Pasquini  3 Marc W Pound  23 Massimo Robberto  9   17 Markus Röllig  20 Bethany Schefter  3 Thiébaut Schirmer  2   24 Thomas Simmer  2 Benoit Tabone  2 Alexander G G M Tielens  23   25 Sílvia Vicente  26 Mark G Wolfire  23 PDRs4All Team†Isabel Aleman  27 Louis Allamandola  23   28 Rebecca Auchettl  29 Giuseppe Antonio Baratta  30 Clément Baruteau  1 Salma Bejaoui  23 Partha P Bera  23   28 John H Black  31 Francois Boulanger  32 Jordy Bouwman  33   34   35 Bernhard Brandl  20   36 Philippe Brechignac  11 Sandra Brünken  37 Mridusmita Buragohain  38 Andrew Burkhardt  39 Alessandra Candian  20   40 Stéphanie Cazaux  10 Jose Cernicharo  14 Marin Chabot  41 Shubhadip Chakraborty  42   43 Jason Champion  1 Sean W J Colgan  24 Ilsa R Cooke  44 Audrey Coutens  1 Nick L J Cox  11   12 Karine Demyk  1 Jennifer Donovan Meyer  45 Cécile Engrand  41 Sacha Foschino  4 Pedro García-Lario  46 Lisseth Gavilan  24 Maryvonne Gerin  47 Marie Godard  11 Carl A Gottlieb  48 Pierre Guillard  49   50 Antoine Gusdorf  32   47 Patrick Hartigan  51 Jinhua He  52   53   54 Eric Herbst  55 Liv Hornekaer  56 Cornelia Jäger  57 Eduardo Janot-Pacheco  58 Michael Kaufman  59 Francisca Kemper  60   61   62 Sarah Kendrew  63 Maria S Kirsanova  64 Collin Knight  3 Sun Kwok  65 Álvaro Labiano  66 Thomas S-Y Lai  67 Timothy J Lee  24 Bertrand Lefloch  25 Franck Le Petit  9 Aigen Li  68 Hendrik Linz  69 Cameron J Mackie  70   71 Suzanne C Madden  72 Joëlle Mascetti  73 Brett A McGuire  74   45 Pablo Merino  75 Elisabetta R Micelotta  76 Jon A Morse  77 Giacomo Mulas  1   78 Naslim Neelamkodan  79 Ryou Ohsawa  80 Roberta Paladini  67 Maria Elisabetta Palumbo  30 Amit Pathak  81 Yvonne J Pendleton  82 Annemieke Petrignani  83 Thomas Pino  12 Elena Puga  46 Naseem Rangwala  13 Mathias Rapacioli  84 Alessandra Ricca  3   24 Julia Roman-Duval  15 Evelyne Roueff  10 Gaël Rouillé  57 Farid Salama  13 Dinalva A Sales  85 Karin Sandstrom  86 Peter Sarre  87 Ella Sciamma-O'Brien  13 Kris Sellgren  88 Matthew J Shannon  13 Adrien Simonnin  1 Sachindev S Shenoy  89 David Teyssier  46 Richard D Thomas  90 Aditya Togi  91 Laurent Verstraete  2 Adolf N Witt  92 Alwyn Wootten  45 Nathalie Ysard  1   2 Henning Zettergren  90 Yong Zhang  93 Ziwei E Zhang  94 Junfeng Zhen  95
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A far-ultraviolet-driven photoevaporation flow observed in a protoplanetary disk

Olivier Berné et al. Science. 2024 Mar.

Abstract

Most low-mass stars form in stellar clusters that also contain massive stars, which are sources of far-ultraviolet (FUV) radiation. Theoretical models predict that this FUV radiation produces photodissociation regions (PDRs) on the surfaces of protoplanetary disks around low-mass stars, which affects planet formation within the disks. We report James Webb Space Telescope and Atacama Large Millimeter Array observations of a FUV-irradiated protoplanetary disk in the Orion Nebula. Emission lines are detected from the PDR; modeling their kinematics and excitation allowed us to constrain the physical conditions within the gas. We quantified the mass-loss rate induced by the FUV irradiation and found that it is sufficient to remove gas from the disk in less than a million years. This is rapid enough to affect giant planet formation in the disk.

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