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Rate Coefficients in Astrochemistry

Proceedings of a Conference held at Umis, Manchester, U.K. September 21–24, 1987

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1988

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  1. T. J. Millar

    1. Department of Mathematics, UMIST, Manchester, UK

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  2. D. A. Williams

    1. Department of Mathematics, UMIST, Manchester, UK

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Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 146)

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Table of contents (23 papers)

  1. Condensation Calculations in Circumstellar Shells for Different C/O Ratios

    • C. M. Sharp
    Pages 309-313

  2. Chemistry in Primary T Tauri Winds

    • J. M. C. Rawlings
    Pages 315-320

  3. The Photochemistry of Planetary Atmospheres

    • A. Dalgarno
    Pages 321-338

  4. The UMIST Rate File for Astrochemistry

    • Andrew Bennett
    Pages 339-346

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 347-364
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''An atteJDpt has been made to cOll1PlJte the numbers of certain JI10lecules in interstellar space , . . . . A search for the bands of CH, O/{, DR, en and C2 would appear to be proIDising" P Swings and L Rosenfeld Astrophysical Journal 86,483(1937) This may have been the first attempt at modelling interstellar chemistry. As with models today, the methods used lacked reliability, but the speculation was impressive! Mark Twain might well have said of this infant subject "One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact". The detection of unidentified lines around the period that Swings and Rosenfeld were writing provoked much interest, but even the most optimistic speculator could hardly have imagined developments which would occur during the next 50 years. By 1987 about 70 varieties of molecule had been identified in the interstellar and circumstellar regions, They range in complexity from simple diatomics such as H2 and CO to such species as ethanol C2HeDH, acetone (CHs)2CO, and the largest interstellar molecule detected so far, cyano-penta­ acetylene HC11N, The study of these molecules in astronomy has developed enormously, especially over the last 20 years, and is now codified in the new subject of astrochemistry, That such a variety of chemical species should exist in tenuous regions of the Galaxy is fascinating.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mathematics, UMIST, Manchester, UK

    T. J. Millar, D. A. Williams

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rate Coefficients in Astrochemistry

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of a Conference held at Umis, Manchester, U.K. September 21–24, 1987

  • Editors: T. J. Millar, D. A. Williams

  • Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3007-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2752-7Published: 31 July 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7851-1Published: 19 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3007-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0067-0057

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 364

  • Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Physical Chemistry

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