Deuteration of molecular clumps induced by cosmic rays

Pilling, Sergio; Pazianotto, Maurício Tizziani; Molina, Jose Manuel Quesada

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Deuteration of molecular clumps induced by cosmic rays

dc.contributor.author	Pilling, Sergio
dc.contributor.author	Pazianotto, Maurício Tizziani
dc.contributor.author	Molina, Jose Manuel Quesada
dc.date.accessioned	2025-01-31T14:01:42Z
dc.date.available	2025-01-31T14:01:42Z
dc.date.issued2	2024
dc.description.abstract	The D/H ratio in astrophysical environments has instigated the scientists for at least 50 years. The wide range of values in the interstellar medium (ISM) from 10e to 7 to 10e-1 have usually been claimed to be due to small zero-point energy differences between reactants and products involving D and H (mainly at low temperatures). Here, we present a new source of deuteration processes in the ISM clouds as a result of cosmic ray irradiation. As a study object, we consider a typical molecular clump under the presence of incoming cosmic rays simulated computationally. The calculations were performed employing the Monte Carlo toolkit GEANT4 code (considering hadronic physics) and considering mainly the proton and alpha component of the incoming cosmic rays from the ISM (the dominant ones for the production of secondary protons and deuterons). The results suggest an increasing D/H ratio as function of time in the central part of molecular clumps (<200 AU) with the largest deuteration in the central region of the cloud, and a bump in the D/H ratio around 2–10 AU (which becomes more pronounced for clouds with larger timescales; > 10 Myrs). The results also show that for timescales between 10 and 100 Myrs the central part of the cloud has D/H around 6-16e-3, a value compatible with the observed D/H in some interstellar clouds. This work adds a new piece to the D/H puzzle of the ISM and might also help to explain the D/H ratio measured in different objects inside the Solar system.
dc.description.physical	11 p.
dc.description.sponsorship	Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
dc.description.uri	CNPQ 306145/2015-4; CNPQ 302985/2018-2
dc.format.mimetype	PDF
dc.identifier.affiliation	Universidade do Vale do Paraíba
dc.identifier.affiliation	Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica
dc.identifier.affiliation	University of Seville
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation	PILLING, Sergio; PAZIANOTTO, Maurício Tizziani; MOLINA, Jose Manuel Quesada. Deuteration of molecular clumps induced by cosmic rays. Advances in Space Research, v. 73, n. 5, p. 2831-2841, 2024.
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.asr.2023.11.047
dc.identifier.uri	https://repositorio.univap.br/handle/123456789/537
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Elsevier
dc.rights.holder	Sergio Pilling
dc.rights.holder	Maurício Tizziani Pazianotto
dc.rights.holder	Jose Manuel Quesada Molina
dc.subject.keyword	Astroparticle physics
dc.subject.keyword	cosmic rays
dc.subject.keyword	Nuclear reactions
dc.subject.keyword	Nucleosynthesis
dc.title	Deuteration of molecular clumps induced by cosmic rays
dc.type	Artigos de Periódicos