Grain surface models and data for astrochemistry

HM Cuppen, C Walsh, T Lamberts, D Semenov… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
The cross-disciplinary field of astrochemistry exists to understand the formation, destruction,
and survival of molecules in astrophysical environments. Molecules in space 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 …

Water in star-forming regions: physics and chemistry from clouds to disks as probed by Herschel spectroscopy

EF van Dishoeck, LE Kristensen, JC Mottram… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. Water is a key molecule in the physics and chemistry of star and planet formation,
but it is difficult to observe from Earth. The Herschel Space Observatory provided …

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 …

Binding energies: New values and impact on the efficiency of chemical desorption

V Wakelam, JC Loison, R Mereau, M Ruaud - Molecular Astrophysics, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent laboratory measurements have confirmed that chemical desorption (desorption of
products due to exothermic surface reactions) can be an efficient process. The impact of …

Laboratory and Computational Studies of Interstellar Ices

HM Cuppen, H Linnartz, S Ioppolo - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Ice mantles play a crucial role in sha** the astrochemical inventory of molecules during
star and planet formation. Small-scale molecular processes have a profound impact on large …

Bottlenecks to interstellar sulfur chemistry-Sulfur-bearing hydrides in UV-illuminated gas and grains

JR Goicoechea, A Aguado, S Cuadrado… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Hydride molecules lie at the base of interstellar chemistry, but the synthesis of sulfuretted
hydrides is poorly understood and their abundances often crudely constrained. Motivated by …

A primordial origin for molecular oxygen in comets: a chemical kinetics study of the formation and survival of O2 ice from clouds to discs

V Taquet, K Furuya, C Walsh… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Molecular oxygen has been confirmed as the fourth most abundant molecule in cometary
material (O2/H2O∼ 4 per cent) and is thought to have a primordial nature, ie coming from …

Theoretical determination of binding energies of small molecules on interstellar ice surfaces

D Duflot, C Toubin, M Monnerville - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The adsorption of a series of atoms and small molecules and radicals (H, C, N, O, NH, OH,
H2O, CH3, and NH3) on hexagonal crystalline and amorphous ice clusters were obtained …

Adsorption energies of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen atoms on the low-temperature amorphous water ice: A systematic estimation from quantum chemistry …

T Shimonishi, N Nakatani, K Furuya… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a new simple computational model to estimate the adsorption energies of
atoms and molecules to low-temperature amorphous water ice, and we present the …