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Jul 1980
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980apj...239..151p&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 239, July 1, 1980, p. 151-165.
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Activation Energy, Interstellar Chemistry, Interstellar Gas, Nonequilibrium Conditions, Temperature Effects, Abundance, Atmospheric Effects, Carbon Compounds, Cyanoacetylene, Gas Density, Ionic Reactions, Radiation Chemistry
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The chemical evolution of diffuse and dense interstellar clouds is examined via the time-dependent model outlined by Prasad and Huntress (1980). This paper presents specific results for CH, CO, CH4, O2, CH2O, CN, C2, C2H, HC3N, and NH3. Comparison with observations and predictions of other contemporary models show that cloud temperature plays a very important role through the inverse temperature dependence of radiative association reactions and through activation energies in neutral reactions and selected ion-molecule reactions. The observed fractional abundance of CN with respect to H2 and more accurate recent laboratory data on CN + O and CN + O2 reactions suggest that there is an unidentified, yet efficient, mechanism for conversion of O and O2 into polyatomic species. C2H and HC3N are synthesized early in the history of dense clouds. The value of the fractional abundance of C2H remains high, because as the cloud cools down the activation energy in the C2H + O reaction closes down this most important loss channel. A rapidly decreasing fractional abundance of O with time can also accomplish the same result. The value of the fractional abundance of HC3N remains high because it is an unreactive molecule and probably does not condense readily onto grains.
Huntress Wesley T. Jr.
Prasad Shiva
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