Clouds, Clumps, Cores & Comets - a Cosmic Chemical Connection?
Astrophysics
2017-08-02 v1
Abstract
We discuss the connection between the chemistry of dense interstellar clouds and those characteristics of cometary matter that could be remnants of it. The chemical evolution observed to occur in molecular clouds is summarized and a model for dense core collapse that can plausibly account for the isotopic fractionation of hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and carbon measured in primitive solar system materials is presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0806.3103,
title = {Clouds, Clumps, Cores & Comets - a Cosmic Chemical Connection?},
author = {S. B. Charnley and S. D. Rodgers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.3103},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
to be published in Advances in Geosciences