The title of my PhD thesis was “Chemical evolution from cores to disks”. I successfully defended it at Leiden Observatory on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 to obtain my PhD degree. The thesis can be downloaded in full or in part from this page.
- Full thesis (except for cover and propositions)
download: PDF (6.7 MB, 240 pages). - Cover
download: high-res PDF (3.4 MB), low-res PDF (1.1 MB) - Front matter: title pages & table of contents
download: PDF (19 kB, 12 pages) - Chapter 1: Introduction
download: PDF (353 kB, 18 pages) - Chapter 2: The chemical history of molecules in circumstellar disks. I. Ices
published: Visser et al. 2009a, A&A, 495, 881 (ADS)
download: PDF (2.5 MB, 40 pages) - Chapter 3: The chemical history of molecules in circumstellar disks. II. Gas-phase species
published: Visser et al. 2011, A&A, 534, A132 (ADS)
download: PDF (2.2 MB, 46 pages) - Chapter 4: Sub-Keplerian accretion onto circumstellar disks
published: Visser & Dullemond 2010, A&A, 519, A28 (ADS)
download: PDF (285 kB, 18 pages) - Chapter 5: The photodissociation and chemistry of CO isotopologues: applications to interstellar clouds and circumstellar disks
published: Visser et al. 2009b, A&A, 503, 323 (ADS)
download: PDF (789 kB, 46 pages) - Chapter 6: PAH chemistry and IR emission from circumstellar disks
published: Visser et al. 2007, A&A, 466, 229 (ADS)
download: PDF (454 kB, 28 pages) - Dutch summary
download: PDF (187 kB, 8 pages) - Bibliography
download: PDF (67 kB, 14 pages) - Back matter: publications, curriculum vitae, acknowledgements
download: PDF (27 kB, 10 pages) - Propositions/stellingen (in English and Dutch)
download: PDF (11 kB, 2 pages)