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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 817, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8205/817/2/L12
关键词
astrochemistry; ISM: abundances; ISM: molecules; molecular processes
资金
- French CNRS national program PCMI (Physique et Chimie du Milieu Interstellaire)
- UPMC labex MiChem
- CNRS PICS program
- NWO
- [20140100]
Wavelength-dependent photodesorption rates have been determined using synchrotron radiation for condensed pure and mixed methanol ice in the 7-14 eV range. The VUV photodesorption of intact methanol molecules from pure methanol ices is found to be of the order of 10(-5) molecules/photon, that is two orders of magnitude below what is generally used in astrochemical models. This rate gets even lower (<10(-6) molecules/photon) when the methanol is mixed with CO molecules in the ices. This is consistent with a picture in which photodissociation and recombination processes are at the origin of intact methanol desorption from pure CH3OH ices. Such low rates are explained by the fact that the overall photodesorption process is dominated by the desorption of the photofragments CO, CH3, OH, H2CO, and CH3O/CH2OH, whose photodesorption rates are given in this study. Our results suggest that the role of the photodesorption as a mechanism to explain the observed gas phase abundances of methanol in cold media is probably overestimated. Nevertheless, the photodesorption of radicals from methanol-rich ices may stand at the origin of the gas phase presence of radicals such as CH3O, therefore, opening new gas phase chemical routes for the formation of complex molecules.
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