Formation of Interstellar Ices Behind shock Waves

Details Formation of Interstellar Ices Behind shock Waves Formation of Interstellar Ices Behind shock Waves

1998-11-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9811228v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages (2 figures) using aaspp4.sty; Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/311817

We have used a coupled dynamical and chemical model to examine the chemical changes induced by the passage of an interstellar shock in well shielded regions. Using this model we demonstrate that the formation of water in a shock will be followed in the post--shock phase by depletion of the water molecules onto the grain surfaces. To attempt to discriminate between the creation of ices behind shocks and their production by means of grain surface chemistry, we examine the deuterium chemistry of water before, during, and after a shock. We show that chemical evolution in the post--shock gas can account for both the deuterium fractionation and the abundance of carbon dioxide relative to water observed in interstellar and cometary ices. Given the pervasiveness of shocks and turbulent motions within molecular clouds, the model presented here offers an alternate theory to grain surface chemistry for the creation of ices in the interstellar medium, ices that may ultimately be incorporated into comets.

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