An old disk still capable of forming a planetary system

Edwin A. Bergin (), L. Ilsedore Cleeves, Uma Gorti, Ke Zhang, Geoffrey A. Blake, Joel D. Green, Sean M. Andrews, Neal J. Evans, Thomas Henning, Karin Öberg, Klaus Pontoppidan, Chunhua Qi, Colette Salyk and Ewine F. van Dishoeck
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Edwin A. Bergin: University of Michigan, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
L. Ilsedore Cleeves: University of Michigan, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Uma Gorti: SETI Institute
Ke Zhang: California Institute of Technology, Mathematics and Astronomy, MS 150-21, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Geoffrey A. Blake: California Institute of Technology, MS 150-21, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Joel D. Green: The University of Texas, 2515 Speedway, Stop C1402, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Sean M. Andrews: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street
Neal J. Evans: The University of Texas, 2515 Speedway, Stop C1402, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Thomas Henning: Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Karin Öberg: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street
Klaus Pontoppidan: Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive
Chunhua Qi: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street
Colette Salyk: National Optical Astronomy Observatory, 950 North Cherry Avenue
Ewine F. van Dishoeck: Max Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse 1, 85748 Garching, Germany

Nature, 2013, vol. 493, issue 7434, 644-646

Abstract: In combination with existing observations and detailed circumstellar models, the detection of hydrogen deuteride emission from the star TW Hydrae implies a circumstellar disk mass of more than 0.05 solar masses, which is enough to form a planetary system like our own.

Date: 2013
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