Thermally induced mixing of water dominated interstellar ices.

نویسندگان

  • Daren J Burke
  • Angela J Wolff
  • John L Edridge
  • Wendy A Brown
چکیده

Despite considerable attention in the literature being given to the desorption behaviour of smaller volatiles, the thermal properties of complex organics, such as ethanol (C(2)H(5)OH), which are predicted to be formed within interstellar ices, have yet to be characterized. With this in mind, reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS) and temperature programmed desorption (TPD) have been used to probe the adsorption and desorption of C(2)H(5)OH deposited on top of water (H(2)O) films of various thicknesses grown on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) at 98 K. Unlike many other molecules detected within interstellar ices, C(2)H(5)OH has a comparable sublimation temperature to H(2)O and therefore gives rise to a complicated desorption profile. RAIRS and TPD show that C(2)H(5)OH is incorporated into the underlying ASW film during heating, due to a morphology change in both the C(2)H(5)OH and H(2)O ices. Desorption peaks assigned to C(2)H(5)OH co-desorption with amorphous, crystalline (CI) and hexagonal H(2)O-ice phases, in addition to C(2)H(5)OH multilayer desorption are observed in the TPD. When C(2)H(5)OH is deposited beneath ASW films, or is co-deposited as a mixture with H(2)O, complete co-desorption is observed, providing further evidence of thermally induced mixing between the ices. C(2)H(5)OH is also shown to modify the desorption of H(2)O at the ASW-CI phase transition. This behaviour has not been previously reported for more commonly studied volatiles found within astrophysical ices. These results are consistent with astronomical observations, which suggest that gas-phase C(2)H(5)OH is localized in hotter regions of the ISM, such as hot cores.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP

دوره 10 32  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008