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Abundant hydrocarbons in the disk around a very-low-mass star

Waters, L. B. F. M.; Olofsson, G.; Kamp, I. +40 more

Very-low-mass stars (those less than 0.3 solar masses) host orbiting terrestrial planets more frequently than other types of stars. The compositions of those planets are largely unknown but are expected to relate to the protoplanetary disk in which they form. We used James Webb Space Telescope mid-infrared spectroscopy to investigate the chemical …