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2013MNRAS.430..264R - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 430, 264-273 (2013/March-3)
Episodic explosions in interstellar ices.
RAWLINGS J.M.C., WILLIAMS D.A., VITI S., CECCHI-PESTELLINI C. and DULEY W.W.
Abstract (from CDS):
We propose that, in molecular clouds, the processes of freeze-out on to ice mantles, accumulation of radicals, explosion and then rapid (three-body) gas-phase chemistry occurs in a cyclic fashion. This can lead to a cumulative molecular enrichment of the interstellar medium.
A model of the time-dependent chemistries, based on this hypothesis, shows that significant abundances of large molecular species can be formed, although the complexity of the species is limited by the short expansion time-scale in the gas, immediately following mantle explosion.
We find that this mechanism may be an important source of smaller organic species, such as methanol and formaldehyde, as well as precursors to bio-molecule formation. Most significantly, we predict the gas-phase presence of these larger molecular species in quiescent molecular clouds and not just dynamically active regions, such as hot cores. As such the mechanism that we propose complements alternative methods of large molecule formation, such as those that invoke solid-state chemistry within activated ice mantles.
Abstract Copyright: © 2013 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society (2013)
Journal keyword(s): astrochemistry - molecular processes - ISM: clouds - ISM: molecules
Simbad objects: 4
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