Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Oct 1996
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996mnras.282..807p&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 282, Issue 3, pp. 807-819.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Molecular Processes, Circumstellar Matter, Stars: Individual: Irc+10216, Ism: Abundances, Ism: Clouds, Ism: Molecules
Scientific paper
Various pathways to the metal cyanides Na(CN), Mg(CN) and Al(CN) - some of which have been detected in the circumstellar envelope IRC+10216 - are critically assessed. Calculations of rate coefficients for radiative association processes of the types M^++HCN, M^++HNC and M+CN, which are supported by ab initio calculations of the relevant bond strengths, molecular geometries and vibrational frequencies, allow us to conclude that none of these previously proposed pathways to M(CN) can account for the observed abundances of T-Na(CN), MgCN and MgNC within IRC+10216. We propose that the observed sodium and magnesium cyanides are best accounted for by a mechanism involving radiative association of Na^+ and Mg^+ with cyanopolyynes such as HC_5N and HC_7N, and discuss prospects for the formation of Al(CN) by an analogous mechanism. We also estimate the abundance ratios n(NaCN):n(T-Na(CN)) and n(AlCN):n(AlNC), assuming an ion/molecule source for these species and based on calculated themochemical and spectroscopic properties for these isomers; the results suggest that virtually all Na(CN) and Al(CN) should be in the form of T-Na(CN) and linear AlNC respectively, with poor prospects for the detection of the higher energy isomers NaCN and AlCN. Larger homologues of the metal cyanides, such as MNC_2n-1 (M=Na, Mg, Al; n=1,2,3,4...), may also arise in the dissociative recombination of MNC_2n+1H^+ ions. We assess the prospects for formation of the species MgC_2 and MgCCH, and propose also that the metal amides MNH_2 (M=Na, Mg, Al) constitute another class of compound whose formation in IRC+10216 via an ion/molecule mechanism, namely the reaction of M^+ with NH_3, appears highly likely.
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