Molecule formation and infrared emission in fast interstellar shocks. I Physical processes

Details Molecule formation and infrared emission in fast interstellar shocks. I Physical processes Molecule formation and infrared emission in fast interstellar shocks. I Physical processes

Nov 1979

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Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 41, Nov. 1979, p. 555-592.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

539

Astrophysics, Infrared Radiation, Interstellar Gas, Molecular Gases, Shock Waves, Chemical Reactions, Deuterium, Gas Density, Gas Dissociation, Gas Temperature, Molecular Interactions, Shock Fronts

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The paper analyzes the structure of fast shocks incident upon interstellar gas of ambient density from 10 to the 7th per cu cm, while focusing on the problems of formation and destruction of molecules and infrared emission in the cooling, neutral post shock gas. It is noted that such fast shocks initially dissociate almost all preexisting molecules. Discussion covers the physical processes which determine the post shock structure between 10 to the 4 and 10 to the 2 K. It is shown that the chemistry of important molecular coolants H2, CO, OH, and H2O, as well as HD and CH, is reduced to a relatively small set of gas phase and grain surface reactions. Also, the chemistry follows the slow conversion of atomic hydrogen into H2, which primarily occurs on grain surfaces. The dependence of this H2 formation rate on grain and gas temperatures is examined and the survival of grains behind fast shocks is discussed. Post shock heating and cooling rates are calculated and an appropriate, analytic, universal cooling function is developed for molecules other than hydrogen which includes opacities from both the dust and the lines.

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