A study published Monday has solved a long-standing mystery about the absence of carbon monoxide in planet-forming disks.
The study, published in the scientific journal Nature Astronomy, shows that carbon monoxide hidden in ice formations within....
the disk is lost. The results were verified by observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array radio telescope.
Astronomers regularly observe carbon monoxide in protoplanetary disks, which are often ultra-bright and...
extremely common in protoplanetary disks. The Regions of dust and gas where planets form around young stars.
"Here, we demonstrate that surface energy effects on particles in disks, such as the Kelvin effect, that arise when ice.....
heterogeneously nucleates onto an existing particle can efficiently trap [carbon monoxide] in its ice phase," the study said.
Researchers said that carbon monoxide inaccuracies could have huge implications for the field of astrochemistry.
"Carbon monoxide is essentially used to trace everything we know about disks -- like mass, composition, and temperature," said Diana Powell a NASA scientist.