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We carry out Monte-Carlo simulation to study deuterium enrichment of interstellar grain mantles under various physical conditions. Based on the physical properties, various types of clouds are considered. We find that in diffuse cloud…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-06 Ankan Das , Dipen Sahu , Liton Majumdar , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

We present the first gas-grain astrochemical model of the NGC 2264 CMM3 protostellar core. The chemical evolution of the core is affected by changing its physical parameters such as the total density and the amount of gas-depletion onto…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-21 Zainab Awad , Osama M. Shalabeia

We present sensitive observations of NH2D at 110.153599 GHz toward 50 Galactic massive star-forming regions with IRAM 30-m telescope. The NH2D transition is detected toward 36 objects, yielding a detection rate of 72%. Column densities of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-27 Yuqiang Li , Junzhi Wang , Juan Li , Shu Liu , Qiuyi Luo

Context. The increased sensitivity and high spectral resolution of millimeter telescopes allow the detection of an increasing number of isotopically substituted molecules in the interstellar medium. The 14N/ 15N ratio is difficult to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 E. Roueff , J. C. Loison , K. M. Hickson

We aim at characterising dense cores in the clustered environments associated with massive star-forming regions. For this, we present an uniform analysis of VLA NH3(1,1) and (2,2) observations towards a sample of 15 massive star-forming…

The deuterium fractionation in starless cores gives us a clue to estimate their lifetime scales, thus allowing us to distinguish between different dynamical theories of core formation. Cores also seem to be subject to a differential N2 and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-08 Sheng-Jun Lin , Laurent Pagani , Shih-Ping Lai , Charlène Lefèvre , François Lique

We investigate water and deuterated water chemistry in turbulent protoplanetary disks. Chemical rate equations are solved with the diffusion term, mimicking turbulent mixing in vertical direction. Water near the midplane is transported to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Kenji Furuya , Yuri Aikawa , Hideko Nomura , Franck Hersant , Valentine Wakelam

The aim of this study is to investigate systematic chemical differentiation of molecules in regions of high mass star formation. We observed five prominent sites of high mass star formation in HCN, HNC, HCO+, their isotopes, C18O, C34S and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-11-02 I. Zinchenko , P. Caselli , L. Pirogov

Binary star systems are assumed to be co-natal and coeval, thus to have identical chemical composition. In this work we aim to test the hypothesis that there is a connection between observed element abundance patterns and the formation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-06 Fan Liu , Bertram Bitsch , Martin Asplund , Bei-Bei Liu , Michael T. Murphy , David Yong , Yuan-Sen Ting , Sofia Feltzing

The relative abundances of singly-deuterated methanol isotopologues, [CH$_{2}$DOH]/[CH$_{3}$OD], in star-forming regions deviate from the statistically expected ratio of 3. In Orion KL, the nearest high-mass star-forming region to Earth,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-12 Olivia H. Wilkins , Geoffrey A. Blake

Elemental abundances, which are often depleted with respect to the solar values, are important input parameters for kinetic models of interstellar chemistry. In particular, the amount of carbon relative to oxygen is known to have a strong…

A proper modelling of the cosmic-ray ionisation rate within gas clouds is crucial to describe their chemical evolution accurately. However, this modelling is computationally demanding because it requires the propagation of cosmic rays…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 G. Latrille , A. Lupi , S. Bovino , T. Grassi , G. Sabatini , M. Padovani

We present a sub-grid model for star formation in galaxy simulations, incorporating molecular hydrogen ($\mathrm{H}_2$) production via dust grain condensation and its destruction through star formation and photodissociation. Implemented…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-02 E. Lozano , C. Scannapieco , S. E. Nuza , Y. Ascasibar , V. Springel

The Sun has been found to be depleted in refractory (rock-forming) elements relative to nearby solar analogs, suggesting a potential indicator of planet formation. Given the small amplitude of the depletion, previous analyses have primarily…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Jacob Nibauer , Eric J. Baxter , Bhuvnesh Jain , Jennifer L. van Saders , Rachael L. Beaton , Johanna K. Teske

Many complex organic molecules (COMs) in star-forming regions are believed to form on dust grains. We thus expect both the reduced metallicity and dust-to-gas ratio in the outer Galaxy to have an impact on the chemical composition of these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-15 Youxin Wang , Arnaud Belloche , Robin T. Garrod

Abundance ratios of the nuclear-spin isomers of H$_2$O and NH$_3$ have been measured in about two dozen comets, with a mean value corresponding to a nuclear-spin temperature of $\sim$ 30 K. The real meaning of these unequilibrated…

We derive atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances in young G-, K-, and M-type stars (temperatures between 6500 and 3100 K) using infrared APOGEE-2 spectra. Atmospheric parameters were determined for 548 young stars in the Orion…

Ammonia is a promising zero-carbon fuel for industrial and transport applications, but its combustion is hindered by flame instabilities, incomplete oxidation, and the formation of nitrogen oxides. Accurate and detailed kinetic models are…

Since the chemical abundances of stars are the fossil records of the physical conditions in galaxies, they provide the key information for recovering the assembly history of galaxies. In this work, we explore the chemo-chrono-kinematics of…

Aims. We investigate the effect of chemistry on the stability of starless cores against gravitational collapse. Methods. We combine chemical and radiative transfer simulations in the context of a modified Bonnor-Ebert sphere to model the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-17 O. Sipilä , P. Caselli , M. Juvela