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One of the major obstacles to accurately model the interstellar chemistry is an inadequate knowledge about the binding energy (BE) of interstellar species with dust grains. In denser region of molecular cloud, where very complex chemistry…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-25 Ankan Das , Milan Sil , Prasanta Gorai , Sandip K. Chakrabarti , Jean-Christophe Loison

The abundance of interstellar ice constituents is usually expressed with respect to the water ice because, in denser regions, a significant portion of the interstellar grain surface would be covered by water ice. The binding energy (BE), or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-01 Ankan Das , Milan Sil , Rana Ghosh , Prasanta Gorai , Soutan Adak , Subhankar Samanta , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

In the denser and colder ($\leq$20 K) regions of the interstellar medium (ISM), near-infrared observations have revealed the presence of sub-micron sized dust grains covered by several layers of H\textsubscript{2}O-dominated ices and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-25 Stefano Ferrero , Lorenzo Zamirri , Cecilia Ceccarelli , Arezu Witzel , Albert Rimola , Piero Ugliengo

Context. Carbon monoxide (CO) is arguably the most important molecule for interstellar organic chemistry. Its binding to amorphous solid water (ASW) ice regulates both diffusion and desorption processes. Accurately characterizing the CO…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-19 Giulia M. Bovolenta , Germán Molpeceres , Kenji Furuya , Johannes Kästner , Stefan Vogt-Geisse

Experimental and computational chemistry are two disciplines to conduct research in Astrochemistry, providing essential reference data for both astronomical observations and modeling. These approaches not only mutually support each other,…

This work aims to develop a method based on a structurally reliable ice model and a statistically and physico-chemically robust approach for BE distribution inference, with the aim to be applicable to various relevant interstellar species.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Maria Groyne , Benoît Champagne , Cedric Baijot , Michaël De Becker

Binding energies (BEs) are one of the most important parameters for astrochemical modeling determining, because they govern whether a species stays in the gas-phase or is frozen on the grain surfaces. It is currently known that, in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-16 J. Perrero , J. Enrique-Romero , S. Ferrero , C. Ceccarelli , L. Podio , C. Codella , A. Rimola , P. Ugliengo

The quality of astrochemical models is highly dependent on reliable binding energy (BE) values that consider the morphological and energetic variety of binding sites on the surface of ice-grain mantles. Here, we present the Binding Energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Giulia M. Bovolenta , Stefan Vogt-Geisse , Stefano Bovino , Tommaso Grassi

Binding energy (BE) is a critical parameter in astrochemical modeling, governing the retention of species on interstellar dust grains and their subsequent chemical evolution. However, conventional models often rely on single-valued BEs,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-03 Arghyadeb Roy , Ankan Das , Milan Sil , Prasanta Gorai , Kenji Furuya , Naoki Nakatani , Takashi Shimonishi

The binding energies (BE) of molecules on the interstellar grains are crucial in the chemical evolution of the interstellar medium (ISM). Both temperature programmed desorption (TPD) laboratory experiments and quantum chemistry computations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 Lorenzo Tinacci , Aurele Germain , Stefano Pantaleone , Stefano Ferrero , Cecilia Ceccarelli , Piero Ugliengo

We measured the binding energy of N$_2$, CO, O$_2$, CH$_4$, and CO$_2$ on non-porous (compact) amorphous solid water (np-ASW), of N$_2$ and CO on porous amorphous solid water (p-ASW), and of NH$_3$ on crystalline water ice. We were able to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-13 Jiao He , Kinsuk Acharyya , Gianfranco Vidali

Formation of interstellar complex organic molecules is currently thought to be dominated by the barrierless coupling between radicals on the interstellar icy grain surfaces. Previous standard DFT results on the reactivity between CH$_3$ and…

Straight-chain (normal-propyl cyanide, n - C3H7CN) and branched-chain (iso-propyl cyanide, i - C3H7CN) alkyl cyanides are recently identified in the massive star-forming regions (Sgr B2(N) and Orion). These branched-chain molecules indicate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-09 Satyam Srivastav , Milan Sil , Prasanta Gorai , Amit Pathak , Bhalamurugan Sivaraman , Ankan Das

Acetaldehyde is one of the most common and abundant gaseous interstellar complex organic molecules, found in cold and hot regions of the molecular interstellar medium. Its presence in the gas-phase depends on the chemical formation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-21 S. Ferrero , F. Grieco , A-S. Ibrahim Mohamed , F. Dulieu , A. Rimola , C. Ceccarelli , C. Nervi , M. Minissale , P. Ugliengo

A prevailing theory for the interstellar production of complex organic molecules (COMs) involves formation on warm dust-grain surfaces, via the diffusion and reaction of radicals produced through grain-surface photodissociation of stable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-19 Mihwa Jin , Robin T. Garrod

Binding energies (BEs) of adsorbates on interstellar dust grains critically control adsorption, desorption, diffusion, and surface reactivity, and therefore strongly influence astrochemical models of star- and planet-forming regions. While…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Anant Vaishnav , Niels M. Mikkelsen , Mie Andersen

We investigate the role of carbon monoxide ice in the chemical evolution of prestellar cores using astrochemical rate equation models. We constrain the ratios of the binding energies on CO ice and H$_{2}$O ice for a series of adsorbates…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-14 Germán Molpeceres , Kenji Furuya , Yuri Aikawa

CO2 is the third most abundant ice component found on dust grains in star-forming regions and a common ingredient of exoplanet atmospheres. Characterization of its adsorption properties on ices through the binding energy (BE) is essential…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Alicja Bulik , V. Bariosco , E. Mates-Torres , P. Ugliengo , K. Furuya , C. Ceccarelli , A. Rimola

N-bearing molecules (like N2H+ or NH3) are excellent tracers of high-density, low-temperature regions like dense cloud cores and could shed light into snowlines in protoplanetary disks and the chemical evolution of comets. However,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-01 S. Kakkenpara Suresh , F. Dulieu , J. Vitorino , P. Caselli

The reactivity of interstellar carbon atoms (C) on the water-dominated ices is one of the possible ways to form interstellar complex organic molecules (iCOMs). In this work, we report a quantum chemical study of the coupling reaction of C…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-24 Stefano Ferrero , Cecilia Ceccarelli , Piero Ugliengo , Mariona Sodupe , Albert Rimola
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