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Future Mm/Submm Instrumentation and Science Opportunities: Example of Deuterated Molecules | T.G. Phillips
; C. Vastel
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27 Nov 2002 | Subject: | astro-ph | Affiliation: | Caltech) and C. Vastel (Caltech | Abstract: | During the next decade a tremendous advance will take place in instrumentation for spectroscopy of the interstellar medium. Major new facilities (ALMA, SOFIA, APEX, LMT, Herschel and others) will be constructed and commissioned, so that the science opportunities, in the field of astrochemistry, will increase by a huge factor. This will be enhanced by the new receivers with greater bandwidth and sensitivity. The new opportunities will be in the area of astrochemistry of distant objects, through greater sensitivity, or new spectral ranges due to the platforms above the Earth’s atmosphere. Various aspects of new spectral ranges are discussed, with emphasis on H2O lines, features previously hidden under H2O or O2 lines, light hydrides and particularly on deuterium in molecules. Recently, multiply deuterated species have been detected, e.g. ND3, in cold dense regions of the interstellar medium. It is argued here that it is possible that so much deuterium could be trapped, by the fractionation process, into heavy molecules such as ND3, etc..., and species such as H2D+ and possibly D2H+, that D and HD might be depleted. This would be the mechanism for the large dispersion of [D]/[H] values found in the interstellar medium. Light molecules (hydrides and deuterides) generally have large fundamental rotation frequencies, often lying in the HIFI bands. The deuterides are a specially suitable case, because the species exist mainly in cold dense regions, where the molecules are in the ground states and THz observations will best be carried out by absorption spectroscopy against background dust continuum sources such as Sgr B2 and W49N. | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0211610 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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