Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-mkpzs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T17:10:02.509Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Translucent Clouds as Testbeds of Basic Chemical Networks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

B. E. Turner*
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

We have developed comprehensive models, based on the New Standard Model reaction dataset, for the gas-phase chemistry of translucent clouds. These models predict satisfactorily the abundances of 34 of the 38 molecular species observed in both translucent and cold dense clouds. With 3 additional reactions, the models also appear able to explain diffuse cloud abundances.

Type
Part 1. Chemistry in Pre-Stellar Cores and Low-Mass Star-Forming Regions
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000 

References

Bergin, E.A., et al. 1995, ApJ, 441, 222 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Caselli, P., Walmsley, C.M., Terzieva, R., & Herbst, E. 1998, ApJ, 499, 234 Google Scholar
Federman, S.R. 1996, MNRAS, 279, L41 Google Scholar
Hogerheijde, M., de Geus, E.J., Spaans, M., van Langevelde, H.J., & van Dishoeck, E.F. 1995, ApJ, 441, L93 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Joulain, , et al. 1998, A&A, 340, 241 Google Scholar
Lee, H.-H., Bettens, R.P.A., & Herbst, E. 1996, A&AS, 119, 111 Google Scholar
Lucas, R. & Liszt, H. 1997, in Molecules in Astrophysics: Probes and Processes, ed. van Dishoeck, E.F., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 421 Google Scholar
Spaans, M. 1995, Ph.D. thesis, Leiden University Google Scholar
Terzieva, R. & Herbst, E. 1998, ApJ, 501, 207 Google Scholar
Turner, B.E. 1993, ApJ, 405, 229 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Turner, B.E. 1994, in The FIRST Symposium on IR & Cirrus, eds. Cutri, R.M. & Latter, W.B., ASP Conference Series #58, 307 Google Scholar
van Dishoeck, E.F. & Black, J.H. 1988, ApJ, 334, 771 Google Scholar