The chemical signature of magnetohydrodynamic waves in molecular clouds

Details The chemical signature of magnetohydrodynamic waves in molecular clouds The chemical signature of magnetohydrodynamic waves in molecular clouds

Aug 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998mnras.298l..25c&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 298, Issue 2, pp. L25-l28.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

8

Mhd, Molecular Processes, Ism: Clouds, Ism: Molecules

Scientific paper

By considering the propagation of low-amplitude magnetohydrodynamic waves in partially ionized plasmas, it is shown that the ion-neutral drift (ambipolar diffusion) induced by the waves can have specific effects on the molecular chemistry of cold material. The chemistry occurring in gas swept by Alfven waves is described and it is shown that this leads to spatial variations in the deuterium fractionation ratios of, for example, HCO^+ and N_2H^+, on spatial scales of a few hundredths of a parsec, depending upon the fractional ionization of the ambient medium. The possibility of detecting interstellar Alfven waves by molecular spectroscopy and their effect of producing small-scale chemical abundance gradients in molecular clouds are briefly discussed.

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