Effect of stochastic grain heating on cold dense clouds chemistry
arXiv:1806.02966 · doi:10.1093/mnras/sty1525
Abstract
The temperatures of dust grains play important roles in the chemical evolution of molecular clouds. Unlike large grains, the temperature fluctuations of small grains induced by photons may be significant. Therefore, if the grain size distribution is included in astrochemical models, the temperatures of small dust grains may not be assumed to be constant. We simulate a full gas-grain reaction network with a set of dust grain radii using the classical MRN grain size distribution and include the temperature fluctuations of small dust grains. Monte Carlo method is used to simulate the real-time dust grain's temperature fluctuations which is caused by the external low energy photons and the internal cosmic ray induced secondary photons. The increase of dust grains radii as ice mantles accumulate on grain surfaces is also included in our models. We found that surface CO abundances in models with grain size distribution and temperature fluctuations are more than one order of magnitude larger than those with single grain size. Small amounts of terrestrial complex organic molecules (COMs) can also be formed on small grains due to the temperature spikes induced by external low energy photons. However, cosmic ray induced secondary photons overheat small grains so that surface CO sublime and less radicals are formed on grains surfaces, thus the production of surface CO and COMs decreases by about one order of magnitude. The overheating of small grains can be offset by grain growth so that the formation of surface CO and COMs becomes more efficient.
arXiv comment16 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
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