Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004a%26a...427..887f&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.427, p.887-893 (2004)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Stars: Formation, Astrochemistry, Ism: Clouds
Scientific paper
We have studied the ortho, para, and, in the case of D3+, meta forms of the multiply-deuterated isotopes of H3+, under physical conditions believed to be appropriate to pre-protostellar cores. As deuterons have integral nuclear spin, I = 1, Bose-Einstein statistical laws apply. Having extended the network of chemical reactions used in our previous study (Walmsley et al. \cite{walmsley04}), we have calculated the population densities of ortho- and para-D2H+ and of ortho- and meta-D3+. In the former case, comparison is made with the recent observations of para-D2H+ in the prestellar core 16293E (Vastel et al. \cite{vastel04}). Using radiative transition probabilities computed by Ramanlal & Tennyson (\cite{ramanlal04}), we have predicted the intensities of the near infrared vibrational transitions of the deuterated isotopes of H3+. Many of these transitions can be observed, in absorption, only from above the Earth's atmosphere, but some might be detectable through atmospheric windows.
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Flower David R.
Pineau des Forêts Guillaume
Walmsley Charles Malcolm
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