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Organics in Space: From Interstellar Dust to Comets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

J. Mayo Greenberg
Affiliation:
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Laboratory for Astrophysics at Leiden Observatory, University of Leiden, Postbus 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro
Affiliation:
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Laboratory for Astrophysics at Leiden Observatory, University of Leiden, Postbus 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

Abstract

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A cyclic evolutionary picture is presented which follows the sources and nature of organics from interstellar space to comets. The three major organic components discussed are the grain mantles, the carbonaceous particles responsible for the 216 nm hump in the extinction, and the large molecules/small particles polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The variability in the oxygen and hydrogen abundances relative to carbon is followed.

Type
Part 5. Grains and Large Molecules
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000 

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