Metal-containing molecules: some new candidates for interstellar detection

Details Metal-containing molecules: some new candidates for interstellar detection Metal-containing molecules: some new candidates for interstellar detection

Jan 1999

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 302, Issue 3, pp. 482-490.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Molecular Processes, Circumstellar Matter, Stars: Individual: Irc+10216, Ism: Abundances, Ism: Clouds, Ism: Molecules

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High-level ab initio quantum chemical calculations have been employed to investigate structural and thermochemical properties of the molecules c-C_3HM, MCCCH, MNCCC and MCCCN (M = Na, Mg, Al), which are feasible dissociative recombination products of the reactions of M^+ with C_3H_2 and HC_2n+1N. A detailed study of the MCCCN and c-C_3HM optimized geometries, obtained using various basis sets, has furnished values for the rotational constants of these species to an expected accuracy of +/- 2 per cent, which should assist in their laboratory or radioastronomical detection. In an examination of the mechanisms by which these species may arise, we conclude that MgCCCN is the best candidate for detection within the outer envelopes of carbon-rich AGB stars such as IRC+10216; that NaCCCN and AlCCCN may well arise via inner-envelope chemical processes within IRC+10216 (but are unlikely to be found within the outer envelope); and that the MC_3H structures, particularly c-C_3HMg, are worthwhile candidates for a radioastronomical search within cold dense clouds such as TMC-1.

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