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Modeling of the formation of complex molecules in protostellar objects

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The results of molecular composition modeling are presented for the well studied low-mass star-forming region TMC-1 and the massive star-forming region DR21(OH), which is poorly studied from a chemical point of view. The column densities of dozens of molecules, ranging from simple diatomic to complex organic molecules, are reproduced to within an order of magnitude using a one-dimensional model for the physical and chemical structure of these regions. The chemical ages of the regions are approximately 105 years in both cases. The main desorption mechanisms that are usually included in chemical models (photodesorption, thermal desorption, and cosmic-ray-induced desorption) do not provide sufficient gasphase abundances of molecules that are synthesized in surface reactions; however, this shortcoming can be removed by introducing small amount of reactive desorption into the model. It is possible to reproduce the properties of the TMC-1 chemical composition in a standard model, without requiring additional assumptions about an anomalous C/O ratio or the recent accretion of matter enriched with atomic carbon, as has been proposed by some researchers.

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  1. Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, 48 Pyatnitskaya St., Moscow, 119017, Russia

    O. V. Kochina & D. S. Wiebe

  2. Astro Space Center, Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow oblast, Russia

    S. V. Kalenskii

  3. Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

    A. I. Vasyunin

  4. Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia

    A. I. Vasyunin

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Original Russian Text © O.V. Kochina, D.S. Wiebe, S.V. Kalenskii, A.I. Vasyunin, 2013, published in Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2013, Vol. 90, No. 11, pp. 892–906.

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Kochina, O.V., Wiebe, D.S., Kalenskii, S.V. et al. Modeling of the formation of complex molecules in protostellar objects. Astron. Rep. 57, 818–832 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772913110036

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