The First JWST View of a 30-Myr-old Protoplanetary Disk Reveals a Late-stage Carbon-rich Phase

The First JWST View of a 30-Myr-old Protoplanetary Disk Reveals a Late-stage Carbon-rich Phase

We present a JWST MIRI/MRS spectrum of the inner disk of WISE J044634.16–262756.1B (hereafter J0446B), an old (∼34 Myr) M4.5 star but with hints of ongoing accretion. The spectrum is molecule-rich and dominated by hydrocarbons. We detect 14 molecular species (H _2 , CH _3 , CH _4 , C _2 H _2 , ^13 C...

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Main Authors: Feng Long, Ilaria Pascucci, Adrien Houge, Andrea Banzatti, Klaus M. Pontoppidan, Joan Najita, Sebastiaan Krijt, Chengyan Xie, Joe Williams, Gregory J. Herczeg, Sean M. Andrews, Edwin Bergin, Geoffrey A. Blake, María José Colmenares, Daniel Harsono, Carlos E. Romero-Mirza, Rixin Li, Cicero X. Lu, Paola Pinilla, David J. Wilner, Miguel Vioque, Ke Zhang, the JDISCS collaboration
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Subjects:
Protoplanetary disks
Astrochemistry
Infrared astronomy
Circumstellar disks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad99d2
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