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 …

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 …

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 Jin, 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 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 …

[HTML][HTML] H2 formation on interstellar dust grains: The viewpoints of theory, experiments, models and observations

V Wakelam, E Bron, S Cazaux, F Dulieu, C Gry… - Molecular …, 2017 - Elsevier
Molecular hydrogen is the most abundant molecule in the universe. It is the first one to form
and survive photo-dissociation in tenuous environments. Its formation involves catalytic …

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 …

A kinetic database for astrochemistry (KIDA)

V Wakelam, E Herbst, JC Loison… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a novel chemical database for gas-phase astrochemistry. Named the KInetic
Database for Astrochemistry (KIDA), this database consists of gas-phase reactions with rate …

Our astrochemical heritage

P Caselli, C Ceccarelli - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2012 - Springer
Our Sun and planetary system were born about 4.5 billion years ago. How did this happen,
and what is the nature of our heritage from these early times? This review tries to address …

A three-phase chemical model of hot cores: the formation of glycine

RT Garrod - The Astrophysical Journal, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT A new chemical model is presented that simulates fully coupled gas-phase,
grain-surface, and bulk-ice chemistry in hot cores. Glycine (NH 2 CH 2 COOH), the simplest …