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Chemical solver to compute molecule and grain abundances and non-ideal MHD resistivities in prestellar core-collapse calculations ?

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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
卷 592, 期 -, 页码 -

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EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526780

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magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); ISM: molecules; stars: formation

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  1. European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) [247060]
  2. French ANR Retour Postdoc program [ANR-11-PDOC-0031]
  3. European Commission through the Horizon Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship programme [659706]
  4. Programme National de Physique Stellaire (PNPS) of CNRS/INSU, France
  5. Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [659706] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)

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We develop a detailed chemical network relevant to calculate the conditions that are characteristic of prestellar core collapse. We solve the system of time-dependent differential equations to calculate the equilibrium abundances of molecules and dust grains, with a size distribution given by size-bins for these latter. These abundances are used to compute the different non-ideal magneto-hydrodynamics resistivities (ambipolar, Ohmic and Hall), needed to carry out simulations of protostellar collapse. For the first time in this context, we take into account the evaporation of the grains, the thermal ionisation of potassium, sodium, and hydrogen at high temperature, and the thermionic emission of grains in the chemical network, and we explore the impact of various cosmic ray ionisation rates. All these processes significantly affect the non-ideal magneto-hydrodynamics resistivities, which will modify the dynamics of the collapse. Ambipolar diffusion and Hall effect dominate at low densities, up to n(H) = 10(12) cm(-3), after which Ohmic diffusion takes over. We find that the time-scale needed to reach chemical equilibrium is always shorter than the typical dynamical ( free fall) one. This allows us to build a large, multi-dimensional multi-species equilibrium abundance table over a large temperature, density and ionisation rate ranges. This table, which we make accessible to the community, is used during first and second prestellar core collapse calculations to compute the non-ideal magneto-hydrodynamics resistivities, yielding a consistent dynamical-chemical description of this process.

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