Catalytic activity of interstellar grains: Formation of molecular hydrogen on amorphous silicates

Details Catalytic activity of interstellar grains: Formation of molecular hydrogen on amorphous silicates Catalytic activity of interstellar grains: Formation of molecular hydrogen on amorphous silicates

Apr 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009adspr..43.1291v&link_type=abstract

Advances in Space Research, Volume 43, Issue 8, p. 1291-1298.

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Silicates constitute an important class of interstellar grain material and are the site of catalytic activities, most notably the formation of molecular hydrogen. Here we report an analysis of experiments conducted in the laboratory to measure the efficiency of formation of molecular hydrogen on amorphous silicates, a realistic analogue of interstellar dust grains. From the measurements, we also obtain the energetics of key processes in the reaction and information on the mechanism of reaction. Comparison with earlier measurements of molecular hydrogen formation on a sample of polycrystalline olivine shows that amorphous materials are more efficient catalysts.

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