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What Species Remain to be Seen?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2017
Abstract
We review what species remain to be seen for several types of astrochemistry: Thermochemical Equilibrium (TE) in circumstellar envelopes (CSEs); photo- and ion-molecule chemistry in CSEs; ion-molecule chemistry in cold interstellar clouds; grain chemistry (passive, catalytic, disruptive); and shock chemistry. In CSEs, a rich Si gas-phase chemistry is now recognized, and two predicted species (SiN, SiH2) have been seen. Others are predicted. In the ISM, a global picture of refractory-element chemistry predicts that compounds of Mg, Na, Fe, and possibly Al occur with detectable gas-phase abundance. Predicted species require laboratory synthesis and spectroscopy. Reactions of hydrocarbon ions with neutral species dominate the formation of the families CnH, HCnN, H2Cn, and CnO in both interstellar (TMC-1) and circumstellar (IRC10216) cases, and readily explain the favored values of n in each case as well as predicting which higher-n species remain to be seen. Confirmation of H3O+ (interstellar) is discussed.
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- Quiescent Clouds and Regions of Star Formation
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 150: Astrochemistry of Cosmic Phenomena , 1992 , pp. 181 - 186
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1992
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