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Dynamics of Synthesis of Large Carbon Structures in the Interstellar Medium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2014

N. Patra  and
H. R. Sadeghpour
N. Patra
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA email: npatra2@uic.edu
H. R. Sadeghpour
Affiliation:
ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA email: hsadeghpour@cfa.harvard.edu
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Abstract

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We investigate the nucleation of carbon and hydrogen atoms in the gas phase to form large carbon chains, clusters and cages by reactive molecular dynamics simulations. We study how temperature, particle density, presence of hydrogen, and carbon inflow affect the nucleation of molecular moieties with different characteristics.

Keywords

ISM: moleculesISM: molecular dynamics simulationhydrogenation
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 9 , Symposium S297: The Diffuse Interstellar Bands , May 2013 , pp. 353 - 355
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2014 

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