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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 669, Issue 2, Pages 1414-1421Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/521216
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astrochemistry; ISM : molecules; methods : laboratory; molecular processes; planets and satellites : general
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We have investigated the formation of ozone by electron impact in solid molecular oxygen ices between 11 and 30 K. The amount of ozone formed is shown to be strongly dependent on the sample temperature. As the ice temperature increases, the column density of the ozone monomer is found to diminish. This is ascribed to the loss of oxygen atoms by recombination with a neighboring oxygen atom to recycle'' molecular oxygen. In the warm-up'' phase after irradiation, two additional temperature-dependent reaction mechanisms were observed to synthesize ozone: ( 1) a reaction of oxygen atoms from a [ O-3 center dot center dot center dot O] complex with a neighboring oxygen molecule and ( 2) a reaction of trapped oxygen atoms with oxygen molecules to yield the ozone monomer. These experiments have important implications to the oxygen chemistry in icy satellites throughout our solar system.
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