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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 958, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad0bee
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The ortho-to-para ratio (OPR) of formaldehyde (H2CO) is used to estimate the formation temperature of molecules in interstellar environments. However, there is a lack of laboratory evidence to support the assumption that OPR is preserved during molecular formation.
The ortho-to-para ratio (OPR) of formaldehyde (H2CO) has been used as a probe to estimate the formation temperature of molecules in interstellar, circumstellar, and cometary environments, relying on the assumption that nuclear spin conversion is extremely slow, preserving the OPR from molecular formation. An OPR for H2CO less than 3 corresponds to a spin temperature below 30 K and has been proposed to result from formation at low temperatures within an ice, whereas an OPR of 3 is interpreted as arising from warmer formation in the gas phase. In spite of this common assumption, there is no laboratory evidence in the literature to date in support of it. Here, in the first study of its kind for H2CO, we report rotational spectroscopy measurements of the OPR of H2CO sublimated after its formation in methanol (CH3OH) ice samples that were photolyzed by ultraviolet light at 10, 15, 20, and 40 K. None of the measured OPR values correlated with the ice formation temperature.
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