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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 722, Issue 2, Pages 1598-1606Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/722/2/1598
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astrobiology; astrochemistry; ISM: clouds; ISM: molecules; molecular processes
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- JSPS for Young Scientists
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22340157, 21540502, 21200048] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We present the experimental results of carbonic acid (H2CO3) formation through surface reactions of CO molecules with non-energetic hydroxyl (OH) radicals at 10-40 K. The formation of H2CO3 was clearly identified both in the IR spectra and in the thermally programmed desorption mass spectra. The H2CO3 yield was rather high, amounting to approximately 40%-70% relative to that of CO2 formed by the reaction of CO with OH. The structure of H2CO3 formed by reactions of CO with OH may differ from that formed by energetic processes such as UV irradiation, ion irradiation, and electron irradiation of H2O/CO2 binary ices. In this paper, we envisage some of the possible roles H2CO3 may have in the interstellar medium, such as enriching grain mantles of new molecules via acid-base reactions with basic species and contributing to the formation of the unidentified band at 6.8 mu m; we suggest possible reasons for its non-detection yet and discuss the restoration of carbonic acid molecules in the gas phase.
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