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The interstellar medium of low-metallicity systems undergoing star formation will show chemical abundance inhomogeneities due to supernova events enriching the medium on a local scale. If the star formation time-scale is shorter than the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Karlsson , B. Gustafsson

We aim to investigate the chemistry and gas phase abundance of HNCO and the variation of the HNCO/CS abundance ratio as a diagnostic of the physics and chemistry in regions of massive star formation. A numerical-chemical model has been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 D. M. Tideswell , G. A. Fuller , T. J. Millar , A. J. Markwick

We explore whether observed molecular clouds could include a substantial population of unbound clouds. Using simulations which include only turbulence and gravity, we are able to match observed relations and naturally reproduce the observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-05 Rachel L. Ward , James Wadsley , Alison Sills

The precipitation of cloud particles in brown dwarf and exoplanet atmospheres establishes an ongoing downward flux of condensable elements. To understand the efficiency of cloud formation, it is therefore crucial to quantify the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Peter Woitke , Christiane Helling , Ophelia Gunn

HD molecule is one the most abundant molecule in the Universe and due to its sensibility to the conditions in the medium, it can be used to constrain physical parameters in the medium where HD resides. Lately we have shown that HD abundance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-06 D. N. Kosenko , S. A. Balashev

We investigate chemistry in the compression layer behind the interstellar shock waves, where molecular cloud formation starts. We perform three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations of converging flows of atomic gas with shock…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-20 Yuto Komichi , Yuri Aikawa , Kazunari Iwasaki , Kenji Furuya

The supernova explosion increases cosmic ray and x-ray fluxes in the surrounding interstellar medium. Cosmic ray particles and x-ray radiation penetrate nearby molecular clouds and affect the chemical and thermal evolution of the gas. Here…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-25 A. V. Nesterenok

It is important to understand the origin of molecular line intensities and chemical composition in the molecular-cloud scale in the Galactic sources because it serves as a benchmark to compare with the chemical compositions of extragalactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Nanase Harada , Yuri Nishimura , Yoshimasa Watanabe , Satoshi Yamamoto , Yuri Aikawa , Nami Sakai , Takashi Shimonishi

{It has recently been proposed that giant molecular complexes form at the sites where streams of diffuse warm atomic gas collide at transonic velocities.} {We study the global statistics of molecular clouds formed by large scale colliding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Hennebelle , R. Banerjee , E. Vazquez-Semadeni , R. Klessen , E. Audit

Much of modern astrophysics is grounded on the observed chemical compositions of stars and the diffuse plasma that pervades the space between stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies. X-ray and EUV spectra of the hot plasma in the outer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jeremy J. Drake

An overview is given of the chemical processes that occur in primordial systems under the influence of radiation, metal abundances and dust surface reactions. It is found that radiative feedback effects differ for UV and X-ray photons at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Spaans

Spectra of extranuclear clouds within the ionization cone of Circinus galaxy are presented and modelled assuming photoionization by the Seyfert 2 nucleus but no preconceived assumption concerning the spectral shape of the ionizing AGN…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Oliva , A. Marconi , A. F. M. Moorwood

Chemical abundances of stars in the Milky Way disk are empirical tracers of its enrichment history. However, they capture joint-information that is valuable to disentangle. In this work, we seek to quantify how individual abundances evolve…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-08 Bridget Ratcliffe , Melissa Ness

We use a high-temperature chemical network to derive the molecular abundances in axisymmetric accretion disk models around active galactic nuclei (AGNs) within 100 pc using simple radial and vertical density and temperature distributions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Nanase Harada , Todd A. Thompson , Eric Herbst

A review of the abundances and condensation temperatures of the elements and their nuclides in the solar nebula and in chondritic meteorites. Abundances of the elements in some neighboring stars are also discussed.

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Lodders , H. Palme , H. -P. Gail

(Abridged) We explore the chemistry of the most abundant C, O, S, and N bearing species in molecular clouds, in the context of the IRAM 30 m Large Programme Gas phase Elemental abundances in Molecular Clouds (GEMS). In this work, we aim to…

Stellar abundances and ages afford the means to link chemical enrichment to galactic formation. In the Milky Way, individual element abundances show tight correlations with age, which vary in slope across ([Fe/H]-[$\alpha$/Fe]). Here, we…

We report the first detection in the interstellar medium of the Z-isomer of cyanomethanimine (HNCHCN), an HCN dimer proposed as precursor of adenine. We identified six transitions of Z-cyanomethanimine, along with five transitions of…

We construct models of molecular clouds that are considered as ensembles of transient cores. Each core is assumed to develop in the background gas of the cloud, grow to high density and decay into the background. The chemistry in each core…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. T. Garrod , D. A. Williams , J. M. C. Rawlings

Some models of Big Bang nucleosynthesis suggest that very high baryon density regions were formed in the early Universe, and generated the production of heavy elements other than lithium such as fluorine F. We present a comprehensive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Denis Puy , Victor Dubrovich , Anton Lipovka , Dahbia Talbi , Patrick Vonlanthen