A model for growth of hydrogenated carbon clusters under interstellar conditions

Details A model for growth of hydrogenated carbon clusters under interstellar conditions A model for growth of hydrogenated carbon clusters under interstellar conditions

Mar 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996ap%26ss.246..141p&link_type=abstract

Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 246, Issue 1, pp.141-152

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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The physico-chemical origin of the hydrogenated carbon clusters (cumulenes, PAHs, graphite or amorphous carbon) in space is still an open question. We have worked out a numerical simulation code in order to build up planar (graphite-like) carbon clusters. We assume that hydrogen atoms can fix on the carbon skeleton following a random process allowing forH 2 formation. The structures we have found are very complex. In a given cluster, several molecular entities can simultaneously be present: (sp 2) carbon chains, rings or compact formations (aromatic structures or small PAHs). We argue that these very contorted hydrogenated structures could be ubiquitous in the interstellar medium, in carbon-rich circumstellar regions and PNe.

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