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彗星彗发中有机分子的中性-中性合成

Neutral-Neutral Synthesis of Organic Molecules in Cometary Comae

M. A Cordiner, S. B. Charnley

摘要:

对彗星气体的远距离和现场观测揭示了大量复杂有机分子的存在,包括碳链、醇、亚胺和氨基酸甘氨酸。彗星物质中的这种化学复杂性意味着彗星的撞击可能为年轻的行星表面提供了生命前化学反应的试剂。然而,在彗星彗发中观察到的毫米波长的一些分子来自于储存在细胞核内的冰的假设尚未得到证实。事实上,中等活跃彗星的彗发在距离彗核几千公里的范围内就达到了足够的密度,从而发生了活跃的(太阳辐射驱动的)光化学反应。在这里,我们提出的结果,从我们最新的化学流体动力学模型,结合更新的反应网络,并表明,常见的HC 3 N(氰基乙炔)和NH 2CHO(甲酰胺)分子可以有效地产生在彗星彗发作为一个结果的两体,中性,中性,气相反应,涉及众所周知的彗发气体。在近核分布的CN源(类似于罗塞塔航天器在彗星67 P观察到的)的存在下,我们发现,足够的HC $_3$ N和NH 2CHO可以合成,以匹配这些分子的丰度在以前的观测奥尔特云彗星。彗星彗发中这些(和其他)复杂有机分子的精确起源可以通过干涉测量测绘观测来验证,例如使用阿塔卡马大型毫米/亚毫米阵列(ALMA)。

英文摘要:

Remote and in-situ observations of cometary gases have revealed the presence of a wealth of complex organic molecules, including carbon chains, alcohols, imines and the amino acid glycine. Such chemical complexity in cometary material implies that impacts by comets could have supplied reagents for prebiotic chemistry to young planetary surfaces. However, the assumption that some of the molecules observed in cometary comae at millimetre wavelengths originate from ices stored inside the nucleus has not yet been proven. In fact, the comae of moderately-active comets reach sufficient densities within a few thousand kilometers of the nucleus for an active (solar radiation-driven) photochemistry to ensue. Here we present results from our latest chemical-hydrodynamic models incorporating an updated reaction network, and show that the commonly-observed HC3N (cyanoacetylene) and NH2CHO (formamide) molecules can be efficiently produced in cometary comae as a result of two-body, neutral-neutral, gas-phase reactions involving well-known coma gases. In the presence of a near-nucleus distributed source of CN (similar to that observed by the Rosetta spacecraft at comet 67P), we find that sufficient HC$_3$N and NH2CHO can be synthesized to match the abundances of these molecules in previous observations of Oort Cloud comets. The precise origin of these (and other) complex organic molecules in cometary comae can be verified through interferometric mapping observations, for example, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).

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