New measurement of the diffusion of carbon dioxide on non-porous amorphous solid water

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العنوان: New measurement of the diffusion of carbon dioxide on non-porous amorphous solid water
المؤلفون: He, Jiao, Rickert, Paula Caroline Pérez, Suhasaria, Tushar, Sohier, Orianne, Bäcker, Tia, Demertzi, Dimitra, Vidali, Gianfranco, Henning, Thomas K.
المصدر: Molecular Physics, 2023
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Astrophysics
Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Physics - Chemical Physics
الوصف: The diffusion of molecules on interstellar grain surfaces is one of the most important driving forces for the molecular complexity in the interstellar medium. Due to the lack of laboratory measurements, astrochemical modeling of grain surface processes usually assumes a constant ratio between the diffusion energy barrier and the desorption energy. This over-simplification inevitably causes large uncertainty in model predictions. We present a new measurement of the diffusion of CO$_2$ molecules on the surface of non-porous amorphous solid water (np-ASW), an analog of the ice mantle that covers cosmic dust grains. A small coverage of CO$_2$ was deposited onto an np-ASW surface at 40~K, the subsequent warming of the ice activated the diffusion of CO$_2$ molecules, and a transition from isolated CO$_2$ to CO$_2$ clusters was seen in the infrared spectra. To obtain the diffusion energy barrier and pre-exponential factor simultaneously, a set of isothermal experiments were carried out. The values for the diffusion energy barrier and pre-exponential factor were found to be $1300\pm110$~K and $10^{7.6\pm0.8}$~s$^{-1}$. A comparison with prior laboratory measurements on diffusion is discussed.
Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2023.2176181
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08628
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2302.08628
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
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DOI:10.1080/00268976.2023.2176181