Interstellar dust grains

BT Draine - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract This review surveys the observed properties of interstellar dust grains: the
wavelength-dependent extinction of starlight, including absorption features, from UV to …

Observations of the icy universe

ACA Boogert, PA Gerakines… - Annual Review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Freeze-out of the gas-phase elements onto cold grains in dense interstellar and
circumstellar media builds up ice mantles consisting of molecules that are mostly formed in …

Formation of complex organic molecules in hot molecular cores through nondiffusive grain-surface and ice-mantle chemistry

RT Garrod, M **, KA Matis, D Jones… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
A new, more comprehensive model of gas–grain chemistry in hot molecular cores is
presented, in which nondiffusive reaction processes on dust-grain surfaces and in ice …

The chemical composition of comets—emerging taxonomies and natal heritage

MJ Mumma, SB Charnley - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Cometary nuclei contain the least modified material from the formative epoch of our
planetary system, and their compositions reflect a range of processes experienced by …

2021 census of interstellar, circumstellar, extragalactic, protoplanetary disk, and exoplanetary molecules

BA McGuire - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
To date, 241 individual molecular species, composed of 19 different elements, have been
detected in the interstellar and circumstellar medium by astronomical observations. These …

Interstellar ice: the infrared space observatory legacy

EL Gibb, DCB Whittet, ACA Boogert… - The astrophysical …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We present 2.5–30 μ m spectra from the Short-Wavelength Spectrometer of the
Infrared Space Observatory for a total of 23 sources. The sources include embedded young …

[BOOK][B] Dust in the galactic environment

DCB Whittet - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Dust is a ubiquitous feature of the cosmos, im**ing directly or indirectly on most fields of
modern astronomy and astrophysics. Dust in the Galactic Environment, Second Edition …

CORINOS. I. JWST/MIRI spectroscopy and imaging of a class 0 protostar IRAS 15398–3359

YL Yang, JD Green, KM Pontoppidan… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The origin of complex organic molecules (COMs) in young Class 0 protostars has been one
of the major questions in astrochemistry and star formation. While COMs are thought to form …

Efficient formation of formaldehyde and methanol by the addition of hydrogen atoms to CO in H2O-CO ice at 10 K

N Watanabe, A Kouchi - The Astrophysical Journal, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
Formaldehyde and methanol were produced efficiently by the hydrogenation of CO in H 2 O-
CO ice at 10 K in an atomic hydrogen beam experiment. The relative yields to the initial CO …

Ammonium salts are a reservoir of nitrogen on a cometary nucleus and possibly on some asteroids

O Poch, I Istiqomah, E Quirico, P Beck, B Schmitt… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Comets and asteroids preserve information on the earliest stages of Solar
System formation and on the composition of its building blocks. The nature of their solid …