Stand2015 Atmospheric Chemical Network for HCNO Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Rimmer P.B.
  2. Helling C.
  3. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

There are many open questions about prebiotic chemistry in both planetary and exoplanetary environments. The increasing number of known exoplanets and other ultra-cool, substellar objects has propelled the desire to detect life and prebiotic chemistry outside the solar system. We present an ion-neutral chemical network constructed from scratch, Stand2015, that treats hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, and oxygen chemistry accurately within a temperature range between 100 and 30000K. Formation pathways for glycine and other organic molecules are included. The network is complete up to H6C2N2O3. Stand2015 is successfully tested against atmospheric chemistry models for HD 209458b, Jupiter, and the present-day Earth using a simple one-dimensional photochemistry/diffusion code. Our results for the early Earth agree with those of Kasting for CO_2_, H_2_, CO, and O_2_, but do not agree for water and atomic oxygen. We use the network to simulate an experiment where varied chemical initial conditions are irradiated by UV light. The result from our simulation is that more glycine is produced when more ammonia and methane is present. Very little glycine is produced in the absence of any molecular nitrogen and oxygen. This suggests that the production of glycine is inhibited if a gas is too strongly reducing. Possible applications and limitations of the chemical kinetics network are also discussed.

Keywords
  1. atomic-physics
  2. astronomical-reference-materials
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2016ApJS..224....9R
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/224/9
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/224/9
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22240009

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History

2016-07-27T12:52:37Z
Resource record created
2016-07-27T12:52:37Z
Created
2017-01-23T22:00:00Z
Updated

Contact

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CDS support team
Postal Address
CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
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