Chemistry in Evaporating Ices: Unexplored Territory
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2015-05-20 v1
Abstract
We suggest that three-body chemistry may occur in warm high density gas evaporating in transient co\textendash desorption events on interstellar ices. Using a highly idealised computational model we explore the chemical conversion from simple species of the ice to more complex species containing several heavy atoms, as a function of density and of adopted three body rate coefficients. We predict that there is a wide range of densities and rate coefficients in which a significant chemical conversion may occur. We discuss the implications of this idea for the astrochemistry of hot cores.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1011.2678,
title = {Chemistry in Evaporating Ices: Unexplored Territory},
author = {Cesare Cecchi-Pestellini and Jonathan M. C. Rawlings and Serena Viti and David A. Williams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.2678},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Accepted in ApJ