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Complex chemistry in star-forming regions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2008

Robin T. Garrod ,
Susanna L. Widicus Weaver  and
Eric Herbst
Robin T. Garrod
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für RadioastronomieAuf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany email: rgarrod@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
Susanna L. Widicus Weaver
Affiliation:
Depts. of Chemistry & Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801, USA email: slww@uiuc.edu
Eric Herbst
Affiliation:
Departments of Physics, Chemistry and Astronomy, The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210, USA email: herbst@mps.ohio-state.edu
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Abstract

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We present a new gas-grain chemical model that allows the grain-surface formation of saturated, complex, organic species from their constituent functional-groups–basic building blocks that derive from the cosmic ray-induced photodissociation of the granular ice mantles. The surface mobility of the funtional-group radicals is crucial to the reactions, and much of the formation of complex molecules occurs at the intermediate temperatures (~20–40 K) attained during the warm-up of the hot core. Our model traces the evolution of a large range of detected, and as yet un-detected, complex molecules.

Keywords

AstrochemistryISM: moleculesstars: formation
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 4 , Symposium S251: Organic Matter in Space , February 2008 , pp. 123 - 124
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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