Monday, 27th August at 1.30pm @ the JAC
Sandrine Bottinelli
Leiden Observatory, Netherlands
"Pre-biotic molecules in the hot corinos
of solar-type protostars with the eSMA"
ABSTRACT:
One of the major goals of modern astrophysics is to understand the formation
of our Solar System. Since low-mass protostars are suns in the making, the
study of these objects and their environment provides one of the best ways to
investigate the Sun's formation process and to peek in the past history of
our Solar System. My research focuses on the chemistry occuring in Class 0
sources (the earliest known phases in the evolutionary scenario of low-mass
protostars) by studying the presence and origin of complex organic molecules
in their envelopes. Some of these molecules have also been observed in comets
in our Solar System, raising the question of whether (and if so, how) the
chemistry of Class 0 objects affects the chemical composition of the
protoplanetary disk material from which comets and other planetary bodies
form.
I will present the current status of research on pre-biotic molecules in
solar-type protostars, and what the eSMA will be able to do in this area.
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