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The P(4S) + NH(3Σ) and N(4S) + PH(3Σ) reactions as sources of interstellar phosphorus nitride – CORRIGENDUM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2024

Alexandre C. R. Gomes
Affiliation:
Departamento de Química, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, CEFET-MG Av. Amazonas 5253, 30421-169, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
André C. Souza
Affiliation:
Departamento de Química, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, CEFET-MG Av. Amazonas 5253, 30421-169, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ahren W. Jasper
Affiliation:
Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
Breno R. L. Galvão*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Química, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, CEFET-MG Av. Amazonas 5253, 30421-169, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Corresponding author: Breno R. L. Galvão; Email: brenogalvao@gmail.com.
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Abstract

Type
Corrigendum
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Astronomical Society of Australia

The authors of this article would like to bring attention to the following correction and modifications.

There was a typo on the values of β reported to fit the rate coefficients to a Arrhenius-Kooji equation (Eq. 5 of the original paper). This parameter appears with the wrong sign in table 2, in the abstract, in the Reaction rates section and in the Conclusions.

The figures presented in the manuscript are correct, and this typo does not change the discussion. This correction is mainly significant in case other authors may use the Arrhenius-Kooji parameters on astrochemical models.

We take the opportunity to redo the fit for the N + PH → P + NH reaction, to avoid the previous very small negative value of gamma (associated with the activation energy), and set it to zero. The change in the curve is negligible, as seen in the updated figure below. All updated values are shown in Table 1 of this correction, which replaces table 2 of the original manuscript.

Table 1. Rate coefficients as a function of temperature for all reactions studied in this work using a modified Arrhenius equation fit.

Figure 1. Rate coefficients as a function of temperature for the P + NH → N + PH (black) and N + PH → P + NH (blue) reactions. The points refer to the calculated values at fixed temperatures, while the curves are fits to the modified Arrhenius expressions.

References

Gomes, A.C.R., Souza, A.C., Jasper, A.W. and Galvão, B.R.L. The P(4S) + NH(³Σ) and N(4S) + PH(³Σ) reactions as sources of interstellar phosphorus nitride. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 2023;40:e011. doi: 10.1017/pasa.2023.13CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Table 1. Rate coefficients as a function of temperature for all reactions studied in this work using a modified Arrhenius equation fit.

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Figure 1. Rate coefficients as a function of temperature for the P + NH → N + PH (black) and N + PH → P + NH (blue) reactions. The points refer to the calculated values at fixed temperatures, while the curves are fits to the modified Arrhenius expressions.