Chemical Evolution of CO2 Ices under Processing by Ionizing Radiation: Characterization of Nonobserved Species and Chemical Equilibrium Phase with the …

S Pilling, GA Carvalho, WRM Rocha - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Astrophysical ices are being exposed to ionizing radiation in space environments, which
trigger new reactions and desorption processes. In the lab, such processing by radiation has …

Mapping the evolution of pure CO2 ices irradiated by ions, UV, and electrons using the upgraded PROCODA code (employing an effective rate constant ordering by …

S Pilling, WRM Rocha, GA Carvalho… - Advances in Space …, 2023 - Elsevier
Chemical reactions and desorption processes are being triggered by incoming ionizing
radiation over astrophysical ices in cold space environments. The quantification of these …

Interstellar carbonaceous dust erosion induced by X-ray irradiation of water ice in star-forming regions

KJ Chuang, C Jäger, NE Sie, CH Huang… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The chemical inventory of protoplanetary midplanes is the basis for forming planetesimals.
Among them, solid-state reactions based on CO/CO 2 toward molecular complexity on …

Characterization of acetonitrile ice irradiated by X-rays employing the procoda code – II. Desorption processes

GA Carvalho, S Pilling… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In this work, we focus on the study of radiation-induced desorption processes that occurred
in acetonitrile ice irradiated by broad-band X-rays (6 eV to 2 keV) monitored by Fourier …

The effect of broadband soft X-rays in SO2-containing ices: implications on the photochemistry of ices toward young stellar objects

S Pilling, A Bergantini - The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the effects produced mainly by broadband soft X-rays up to 2 keV (plus fast
(∼ keV) photoelectrons and low-energy (∼ eV) induced secondary electrons) in the ice …

SO 3 formation from the X-ray photolysis of SO 2 astrophysical ice analogues: FTIR spectroscopy and thermodynamic investigations

V de Souza Bonfim, RB de Castilho… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
In this combined experimental–theoretical work we focus on the physical and chemical
changes induced by soft X-rays on sulfur dioxide (SO2) ice at a very low temperature, in an …

X-ray photolysis of CH3COCH3 ice: implications for the radiation effects of compact objects towards astrophysical ices

GA Carvalho, S Pilling - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
In this study, we employed broad-band X-rays (6–2000 eV) to irradiate the frozen acetone
CH3COCH3, at the temperature of 12 K, with different photon fluences up to 2.7× 1018 …

Oxygen isotope equilibria of O-bearing organic compounds based on first principle quantum mechanical models, and implications for their use in the study of …

S Bhattacharjee, JM Eiler - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2024 - Elsevier
We report theoretically calculated equilibrium oxygen isotopic fractionation factors (17 O/16
O, 18 O/16 O) between a set of representative O-bearing organic molecules and water, as …

Formation of cubic ice via clathrate hydrate, prepared in ultrahigh vacuum under cryogenic conditions

J Ghosh, RG Bhuin, G Vishwakarma… - The Journal of Physical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Cubic ice (ice Ic) is a crystalline phase of solid water, which exists in the earth's atmosphere
and extraterrestrial environments. We provide experimental evidence that dissociation of …

Acetone–water interactions in crystalline and amorphous ice environments

MR Brann, SP Hansknecht, M Muir… - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We present research that systematically examines acetone interacting with various D2O ices
of terrestrial and astrophysical interest using time-resolved, in situ reflection absorption …