Title: | Formation of chiral CO polyhedral crystals on icy interstellar grains |
Authors: | Kouchi, Akira Browse this author →KAKEN DB |
Tsuge, Masashi Browse this author |
Hama, Tetsuya Browse this author |
Niinomi, Hiromasa Browse this author →KAKEN DB |
Nakatani, Naoki Browse this author |
Shimonishi, Takashi Browse this author |
Oba, Yasuhiro Browse this author |
Kimura, Yuki Browse this author →KAKEN DB |
Sirono, Sin-iti Browse this author |
Okuzumi, Satoshi Browse this author |
Momose, Munetake Browse this author |
Furuya, Kenji Browse this author |
Watanabe, Naoki Browse this author →KAKEN DB |
Keywords: | astrochemistry |
method: laboratory: solid-state |
ISM: dust |
Issue Date: | Jul-2021 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Journal Title: | Monthly notices of the royal astronomical society |
Volume: | 505 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page: | 1530 |
End Page: | 1542 |
Publisher DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stab1173 |
Abstract: | The crystallinity and morphology of solid carbon monoxide (CO) on icy interstellar grains were examined by observing the deposition, crystallization, and UV and electrons irradiation of solid CO using transmission electron microscopy. Herein, we found that solid CO deposited in molecular clouds was crystalline, and that even if amorphous CO was deposited, amorphous CO crystallized within 10(3) yr at 10 K. Conversely, crystalline CO was not amorphized by UV rays or electron beam at 10 K. These results indicated the occurrence of chiral crystalline CO instead of amorphous CO in space. Furthermore, the large surface diffusion coefficients of CO on eamorphous H2O and crystalline CO at 10 K facilitated the morphological equilibration of crystalline CO. Bad wetting of crystalline CO with amorphous H2O proved that the morphology of the ice grains was not spherical with an onion-like structure, as hitherto assumed, but rather it was a polyhedral crystalline CO attached to amorphous H2O. This has important implications for phenomena associated with the collision and subsequent sticking between ice grains, surface chemical reactions, non-thermal desorption of molecules and the origin of homochirality in interstellar biomolecules. |
Rights: | This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly notices of the royal astronomical society ©:2021 Akira Kouchi Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. |
Type: | article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/82505 |
Appears in Collections: | 低温科学研究所 (Institute of Low Temperature Science) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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