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Investigating the Sulfur Mystery in Protoplanetary Disks Through Chemical Modeling
Becky J. Williams, L. Ilsedore Cleeves, Rachel E. Gross, Jackson Baker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02176

Investigating the Sulfur Mystery in Protoplanetary Disks Through Chemical Modeling
Sulfur is a critical element to life on Earth, and with detections of sulfur-bearing molecules in exoplanets and comets, questions arise as to how sulfur is incorporated into planets in the first place. In order to understand sulfur's journey from molecular clouds to planets, we need to understand the molecular forms that sulfur takes in protoplanetary disks, where the rotational emission from sulfur-bearing molecules in the gas phase indicates a very low abundance. To address this question, we…