期刊
ACS EARTH AND SPACE CHEMISTRY
卷 5, 期 3, 页码 436-448出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.0c00238
关键词
molecules in space; astrochemistry; X-ray spectra; interstellar medium; algebraic-diagrammatic construction; density functional theory; coupled cluster methods
资金
- Croatian Science Foundation [IP-2014-09-8656]
- Suomen Akatemia (Academy of Finland) [311149]
X-ray astronomy lacks high resolution spectra of interstellar dust analogues and molecules, hindering interstellar medium studies with upcoming X-ray missions. This study calculates the sulfur K edge X-ray absorption spectra, predicting the X-ray spectrum of CS to aid its detection by X-ray telescopes. The computational methods studied show qualitative agreement with experimental results, but quantitative agreement remains a challenge.
X-ray astronomy lacks high resolution spectra of interstellar dust analogues and molecules, severely hampering interstellar medium studies based on upcoming X-ray missions. Various theoretical approaches may be used to address this problem, but they must first be shown to reproduce reliable spectra compared to the experiment. In this work, we calculate the sulfur K edge X-ray absorption spectra of H2S, SO2, and OCS, whose spectra are already known from X-ray experiments and predict the X-ray spectrum of CS, which as far as we are aware has not been measured, thereby hampering its detection by X-ray telescopes. We chose these four molecules as the astrochemistry of sulfur is an unsolved problem and as the four molecules are already known to exist in space. We consider three types of methods for modeling the X-ray spectra: more accurate calculations with the algebraic-diagrammatic construction (ADC) and the CC2, CCSD, and CC3 coupled cluster (CC) approaches as well as more affordable ones with transition potential density functional theory (TP-DFT). A comparison of our computational results to previously reported experimental spectra shows that the core-valence separation (CVS) approaches CVS-ADC(2)-x and CVS-CC3 generally yield a good qualitative level of agreement with the experiment, suggesting that they can be used for interpreting measured spectra, while the TP-DFT method is not reliable for these molecules. However, quantitative agreement with the experiment is still outside the reach of the computational methods studied in this work.
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