The simplest organic acid detected in a protoplanetary disk for the first time
Monday, July 30, 2018 - 08:50
in Astronomy & Space
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of researchers has detected formic acid in the circumstellar disk of the TW Hydrae system. It is the first discovery of the simplest carboxylic acid in a protoplanetary disk. The finding is reported in a paper published July 16 on arXiv.org.