期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 717, 期 2, 页码 674-682出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/717/2/674
关键词
astrochemistry; ISM: molecules; methods: laboratory; molecular data; techniques: spectroscopic
资金
- Office of Energy Research, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, and Chemical Sciences Division of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231, DE-FG02-04ER15570]
Results from single photon vacuum ultraviolet photoionization of astrophysically relevant CnN clusters, n = 4-12, in the photon energy range of 8.0 eV-12.8 eV are presented. The experimental photoionization efficiency curves, combined with electronic structure calculations, provide improved ionization energies of the CnN species. A search through numerous nitrogen-terminated CnN isomers for n = 4-9 indicates that the linear isomer has the lowest energy, and therefore should be the most abundant isomer in the molecular beam. Comparison with calculated results also shed light on the energetics of the linear CnN clusters, particularly in the trends of the even-carbon and the odd-carbon series. These results can guide the search of potential astronomical observations of these neutral molecules together with their cations in highly ionized regions or regions with a high UV/VUV photon flux (ranging from the visible to VUV with flux maxima in the Lyman-alpha region) in the interstellar medium.
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