Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Nov 1990
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990mnras.247..305j&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 247, p. 305-310
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Amorphous Materials, Carbon, Cyclic Hydrocarbons, Interstellar Chemistry, Covalent Bonds, Hydrogenation, Photolysis, Vapor Phases
Scientific paper
Using a random covalent network (RCN) model for the structure of hydrogenated amorphorous carbon (HAC) and the available laboratory data, it is shown that aromatic species are a natural consequence of the structure of amorphous carbons formed in the laboratory. Amorphous carbons in the interstellar medium are therefore likely to contain a significant fraction of Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) species within the 'amorphous' matrix making up these materials. This aromatic component can be produced in situ during the accretion of gas phase carbon species on to grains in the interstellar medium under hydrogen-poor conditions, or subsequent to deposition as a result of photolysis (photodarkening). The fraction of interstellar carbon present in HAC in the form of PAHs, based upon a RCN model, is consistent with the observed Unidentified infrared (UIR) emission features.
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