Recent developments in the chemical modelling of cometary comae are described. We discuss the cyanide chemistry and present new HCN observations of the recent comet C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang). The connection between interstellar and cometary organic molecules is discussed from the perspective of recent theories of interstellar gas-grain chemistry.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0204381,
title = {Chemical Processes in Cometary Comae},
author = {S. B. Charnley and S. D. Rodgers and H. M. Butner and P. Ehrenfreund},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0204381},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
13 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Earth, Moon & Planets, April 21 2002