Spectroscopy and photochemistry of aluminum-bearing species in the universe

T Trabelsi, VJ Esposito… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Metal-bearing molecules impact the chemical and physical environment of
many astronomical sources such as the circumstellar envelopes of large asymptotic giant …

Bottom-up dust nucleation theory in oxygen-rich evolved stars-I. Aluminium oxide clusters

D Gobrecht, JMC Plane, ST Bromley, L Decin… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Aluminium oxide (alumina; Al 2 O 3) is a promising candidate as a primary dust
condensate in the atmospheres of oxygen-rich evolved stars. Therefore, alumina …

Spectroscopy and Photochemistry of OAlNO and Implications for New Metal Chemistry in the Atmosphere

VJ Esposito, CZ Palmer, RC Fortenberry… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A new aluminum-bearing species, OAlNO, which has the potential to impact the chemistry of
the Earth's upper atmosphere, is characterized via high-level, ab initio, spectroscopic …

Experimental study of the removal of excited state phosphorus atoms by H2O and H2: implications for the formation of PO in stellar winds

KM Douglas, D Gobrecht… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The reactions of the low-lying metastable states of atomic phosphorus, P (2D) and P (2P),
with H2O and H2 were studied by the pulsed laser photolysis at 248 nm of PCl3, combined …

Kinetic Study of the Reactions of AlO with H2O and H2; Precursors to Stellar Dust Formation

TP Mangan, KM Douglas, RE Lade… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2021 - ACS Publications
AlO is relatively abundant around oxygen-rich Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars, where it
can react with major gas-phase species such as H2 and H2O to form AlOH. These Al …

Meteor‐ablated aluminum in the mesosphere‐lower thermosphere

JMC Plane, SM Daly, W Feng… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The first global atmospheric model (WACCM‐Al) of meteor‐ablated aluminum was
constructed from three components: The Whole Atmospheric Community Climate Model …

Rovibrational analysis of AlCO3, OAlO2, and HOAlO2 for possible atmospheric detection

RA Firth, CZ Palmer, JS Francisco… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The lack of observational data for the AlO molecule in the mesosphere/lower thermosphere
may be due to ablated aluminum reacting quickly to form other species. Previously proposed …

Shock Tube Design and Fabrication for the Development of a Kinetic Model for Supercritical CO2 Production

JM Harman-Thomas - 2023 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
Direct-fired supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power cycles offer emissions-free electricity
production from the combustion of fossil fuels. Chemical kinetic mechanisms are validated …