Astrochemistry and compositions of planetary systems

KI Öberg, EA Bergin - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Planets form and obtain their compositions in disks of gas and dust around young stars. The
chemical compositions of these planet-forming disks regulate all aspects of planetary …

Complex organic interstellar molecules

E Herbst, EF Van Dishoeck - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Of the over 150 different molecular species detected in the interstellar and circumstellar
media, approximately 50 contain 6 or more atoms. These molecules, labeled complex by …

The UMIST database for astrochemistry 2012

D McElroy, C Walsh, AJ Markwick, MA Cordiner… - Astronomy & …, 2013 - aanda.org
We present the fifth release of the UMIST Database for Astrochemistry (UDfA). The new
reaction network contains 6173 gas-phase reactions, involving 467 species, 47 of which are …

Thermal desorption of interstellar ices: A review on the controlling parameters and their implications from snowlines to chemical complexity

M Minissale, Y Aikawa, E Bergin, M Bertin… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The evolution of star-forming regions and their thermal balance are strongly influenced by
their chemical composition, which, in turn, is determined by the physicochemical processes …

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 …

Organic molecules in the interstellar medium, comets, and meteorites: a voyage from dark clouds to the early Earth

P Ehrenfreund, SB Charnley - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2000 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Our understanding of the evolution of organic molecules, and their voyage from
molecular clouds to the early solar system and Earth, has changed dramatically …

Complex chemistry in star-forming regions: An expanded gas-grain warm-up chemical model

RT Garrod, SLW Weaver, E Herbst - The Astrophysical Journal, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Gas-phase processes were long thought to be the key formation mechanisms for complex
organic molecules in star-forming regions. However, recent experimental and theoretical …

The molecular universe

A Tielens - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2013 - APS
Molecular absorption and emission bands dominate the visible, infrared, and submillimeter
spectra of most objects with associated gas. These observations reveal a surprisingly rich …

Formation of methyl formate and other organic species in the warm-up phase of hot molecular cores

RT Garrod, E Herbst - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2006 - aanda.org
Aims. The production of saturated organic molecules in hot cores and corinos is not well
understood. The standard approach is to assume that, as temperatures heat up during star …

Prebiotic astrochemistry and the formation of molecules of astrobiological interest in interstellar clouds and protostellar disks

SA Sandford, M Nuevo, PP Bera, TJ Lee - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Despite the generally hostile nature of the environments involved, chemistry does occur in
space. Molecules are seen in environments that span a wide range of physical and chemical …