ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Chemical Transformations in the Inter-Stellar Medium: Photochemical Processes
Until the beginning of the last century, the scientific convention was that the material in the interstellar medium (ISM) between stars and galaxies was mostly in atomic and ionic form – thus the formation of complex molecules was improbable. Today, however, large complex molecules are being discovered at a dazzling rate – demonstrating the molecular nature of our universe. The physical conditions in the ISM are extremely different than on Earth: in addition to extreme temperatures and low density, there are radiation fields, which, when interacting with atoms and molecules, result in unique chemistry occurring in excited electronic states. This interaction is responsible for many of the…
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