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Article Dans Une Revue Astronomy and Astrophysics - A&A Année : 2019

Multiple nitrogen reservoirs in a protoplanetary disk at the epoch of comet and giant planet formation

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The isotopic ratio of nitrogen measured in primitive solar system bodies shows a large extent of values, the origin of which remain unknown. One key question is whether the isotopic reservoirs of nitrogen found in cosmomaterials are already present at, or posterior to, the comet formation stage. Another central question is to elucidate the processes capable of producing the observed variations of the 14 N/ 15 N isotopic ratio. Disks orbiting pre-main-sequence (TTauri) stars provide unique opportunities to observe the chemical content of analogs of the protosolar nebula and therefore to build a comprehensive scenario explaining the origin of nitrogen in the solar system and in planet-forming disks. With ALMA, it has become possible to measure isotopic ratios of nitrogen-bearing species in such environments. We present spectrally and spatially resolved observations of the hyperfine structure of the 4-3 rotational transition of HCN and its main isotopologues H 13 CN, and HC 15 N, in the disk orbiting the 8 Myr-old TTauri star TW Hya. The sensitivity allows the HCN/H 13 CN and HCN/HC 15 N abundance ratios to be measured directly, under minimal assumptions. The spatially averaged ratios are 86±4 and 223±21 respectively. The latter result, when compared with the directly measured CN/C 15 N ratio of 323±30 in this disk, provides clear-cut evidence that two isotopic reservoirs of nitrogen are present in this disk at the stage of giant-planet and comet formation. Furthermore, we find that the HCN/HC 15 N ratio increases from 121±11 to 339±28 as the radius increases from 20 to 45au. This finding lends support to selective photo-dissociation of N 2 being the dominant fractionation process.
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hal-02330688 , version 1 (24-10-2019)
hal-02330688 , version 2 (15-11-2019)

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Pierre Hily-Blant, V Magalhaes de Souza, J Kastner, T. Forveille. Multiple nitrogen reservoirs in a protoplanetary disk at the epoch of comet and giant planet formation. Astronomy and Astrophysics - A&A, In press. ⟨hal-02330688v1⟩
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