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Rotational Desorption of Ice Mantles and Complex Molecules from Suprathermally Rotating Dust Grains around Young Stellar Objects

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2020-03-11 v2 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

Ice mantles on dust grains play a central role in astrochemistry. Water and complex organic molecules (COMs) are thought to first form on the ice mantles and subsequently are released into the gas phase due to star formation activity. However, the critical question is whether ice mantles can survive stellar radiation when grains are being heated from Td10KT_{d}\sim 10\rm K to 100\gtrsim 100 K. In this paper, we first study the effect of suprathermal grain rotation driven by the intense radiation of young stellar objects (YSOs) on the ice mantles. We find that the entire ice mantles can be disrupted into small fragments by centrifugal stress before the water ice and COMs desorb via thermal sublimation. We then study the consequence of resulting ice fragments and find that tiny fragments of radius a10a \lesssim 10\AA~ exhibit transient release of COMs due to thermal spikes, whereas larger fragments can facilitate thermal sublimation at much higher rates than from the original icy grain or the same rate but with temperatures of 2040\sim 20-40 K lower. We find that rotational desorption is efficient for hot cores/corinos from the inner to outer regions where the temperature drops to Tgas40KT_{\rm gas}\sim 40\rm K and nH104cm3n_{\rm H}\sim 10^{4}\rm cm^{-3}. We discuss the implications of this mechanism for desorption of COMs and water ice in various environments, including outflow cavity walls, photodissociation regions, and protoplanetary disks. Finally, we show that very large aggregate grains can be disrupted into individual icy grains via rotational disruption mechanism, followed by rotational desorption of ice mantles.

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@article{arxiv.1902.06438,
  title  = {Rotational Desorption of Ice Mantles and Complex Molecules from Suprathermally Rotating Dust Grains around Young Stellar Objects},
  author = {Thiem Hoang and Le Ngoc Tram},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.06438},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

17 pages, 11 figures; accepted to ApJ