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Title: Multilayer formation and evaporation of deuterated ices in prestellar and protostellar cores

Abstract

Extremely large deuteration of several molecules has been observed toward prestellar cores and low-mass protostars for a decade. New observations performed toward low-mass protostars suggest that water presents a lower deuteration in the warm inner gas than in the cold external envelope. We coupled a gas-grain astrochemical model with a one-dimensional model of a collapsing core to properly follow the formation and the deuteration of interstellar ices as well as their subsequent evaporation in the low-mass protostellar envelopes with the aim of interpreting the spatial and temporal evolutions of their deuteration. The astrochemical model follows the formation and the evaporation of ices with a multilayer approach and also includes a state-of-the-art deuterated chemical network by taking the spin states of H{sub 2} and light ions into account. Because of their slow formation, interstellar ices are chemically heterogeneous and show an increase of their deuterium fractionation toward the surface. The differentiation of the deuteration in ices induces an evolution of the deuteration within protostellar envelopes. The warm inner region is poorly deuterated because it includes the whole molecular content of ices, while the deuteration predicted in the cold external envelope scales with the highly deuterated surface of ices. We are ablemore » to reproduce the observed evolution of water deuteration within protostellar envelopes, but we are still unable to predict the super-high deuteration observed for formaldehyde and methanol. Finally, the extension of this study to the deuteration of complex organics, important for the prebiotic chemistry, shows good agreement with the observations, suggesting that we can use the deuteration to retrace their mechanisms and their moments of formation.« less

Authors:
;  [1];  [2]
  1. Astrochemistry Laboratory and The Goddard Center for Astrobiology, Mailstop 691, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20770 (United States)
  2. Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 Helsinki (Finland)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22365438
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Astrophysical Journal
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 791; Journal Issue: 1; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0004-637X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; DEUTERATION; DEUTERIUM; ELEMENT ABUNDANCE; EVAPORATION; EVOLUTION; FORMALDEHYDE; FRACTIONATION; HYDROGEN; ICE; LAYERS; LIGHT IONS; MASS; METHANOL; MOLECULES; PROTOSTARS; SPIN; STARS; WATER

Citation Formats

Taquet, Vianney, Charnley, Steven B., and Sipilä, Olli. Multilayer formation and evaporation of deuterated ices in prestellar and protostellar cores. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/791/1/1.
Taquet, Vianney, Charnley, Steven B., & Sipilä, Olli. Multilayer formation and evaporation of deuterated ices in prestellar and protostellar cores. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/791/1/1
Taquet, Vianney, Charnley, Steven B., and Sipilä, Olli. 2014. "Multilayer formation and evaporation of deuterated ices in prestellar and protostellar cores". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/791/1/1.
@article{osti_22365438,
title = {Multilayer formation and evaporation of deuterated ices in prestellar and protostellar cores},
author = {Taquet, Vianney and Charnley, Steven B. and Sipilä, Olli},
abstractNote = {Extremely large deuteration of several molecules has been observed toward prestellar cores and low-mass protostars for a decade. New observations performed toward low-mass protostars suggest that water presents a lower deuteration in the warm inner gas than in the cold external envelope. We coupled a gas-grain astrochemical model with a one-dimensional model of a collapsing core to properly follow the formation and the deuteration of interstellar ices as well as their subsequent evaporation in the low-mass protostellar envelopes with the aim of interpreting the spatial and temporal evolutions of their deuteration. The astrochemical model follows the formation and the evaporation of ices with a multilayer approach and also includes a state-of-the-art deuterated chemical network by taking the spin states of H{sub 2} and light ions into account. Because of their slow formation, interstellar ices are chemically heterogeneous and show an increase of their deuterium fractionation toward the surface. The differentiation of the deuteration in ices induces an evolution of the deuteration within protostellar envelopes. The warm inner region is poorly deuterated because it includes the whole molecular content of ices, while the deuteration predicted in the cold external envelope scales with the highly deuterated surface of ices. We are able to reproduce the observed evolution of water deuteration within protostellar envelopes, but we are still unable to predict the super-high deuteration observed for formaldehyde and methanol. Finally, the extension of this study to the deuteration of complex organics, important for the prebiotic chemistry, shows good agreement with the observations, suggesting that we can use the deuteration to retrace their mechanisms and their moments of formation.},
doi = {10.1088/0004-637X/791/1/1},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22365438}, journal = {Astrophysical Journal},
issn = {0004-637X},
number = 1,
volume = 791,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Aug 10 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Sun Aug 10 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}