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Methanol along the path from envelope to protoplanetary disc

Walsh, Catherine; Harsono, Daniel; van Dishoeck, Ewine F. +2 more

Interstellar methanol is considered to be a parent species of larger, more complex organic molecules. A physicochemical simulation of infalling parcels of matter is performed for a low-mass star-forming system to trace the chemical evolution from cloud to disc. An axisymmetric 2D semi-analytic model generates the time-dependent density and velocit…