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Article Dans Une Revue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Année : 2018

IR spectral fingerprint of carbon monoxide in interstellar water-ice models

Lorenzo Zamirri
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Silvia Casassa
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Albert Rimola
Mireia Segado-Centellas
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Piero Ugliengo

Résumé

Carbon monoxide (CO) is the second most abundant molecule in the gas phase of the interstellar medium. In dense molecular clouds, it is also present in the solid phase as a constituent of the mixed water-dominated ices covering dust grains. Its presence in the solid phase is inferred from its infrared (IR) signals. In experimental observations of solid CO/water mixed samples, its IR frequency splits into two components, giving rise to a blue- and redshifted band. However, in astronomical observations, the former has never been observed. Several attempts have been carried out to explain this peculiar behaviour, but the question still remains open. In this work, we resorted to pure quantum mechanical simulations in order to shed some light on this problem. We adopted different periodic models simulating the CO/H2O ice system, such as single and multiple CO adsorption on water-ice surfaces, CO entrapped into water cages, and proper CO:H2O mixed ices. We also simulated pure solid CO. The detailed analysis of our data revealed how the quadrupolar character of CO and the dispersive forces with water ice determine the energetic of the CO/H2O ice interaction, as well as the CO spectroscopic behaviour. Our data suggest that the blueshifted peak can be assigned to CO interacting via the C atom with dangling H atoms of the water ice, while the redshifted one can actually be the result of CO involved in different reciprocal interactions with the water matrix. We also provide a possible explanation for the lack of the blueshifted peak in astronomical spectra. Our aim is not to provide a full account of the various interstellar ices, but rather to elucidate the sensitivity of the CO spectral features to different water-ice environments.
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insu-03693529 , version 1 (13-06-2022)

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Lorenzo Zamirri, Silvia Casassa, Albert Rimola, Mireia Segado-Centellas, Cecilia Ceccarelli, et al.. IR spectral fingerprint of carbon monoxide in interstellar water-ice models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018, 480, pp.1427-1444. ⟨10.1093/mnras/sty1927⟩. ⟨insu-03693529⟩
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