ISOTOPIC ANOMALIES IN PRIMITIVE SOLAR SYSTEM MATTER: SPIN-STATE-DEPENDENT FRACTIONATION OF NITROGEN AND DEUTERIUM IN INTERSTELLAR CLOUDS
ISOTOPIC ANOMALIES IN PRIMITIVE SOLAR SYSTEM MATTER: SPIN-STATE-DEPENDENT FRACTIONATION OF NITROGEN AND DEUTERIUM IN INTERSTELLAR CLOUDS
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原始太阳系物质中的同位素异常：星际云中氮和氘的自旋态相关分馏
DOI：
10.1088/2041-8205/757/1/l11
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2012
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S. Milam
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E. Wirström;S. Charnley;M. Cordiner;S. Milam
在陨石和行星际尘埃颗粒中发现的有机物质富含D和15 N。这与携带这些同位素异常的官能团（腈和胺）是由原太阳星云中的离子分子化学形成的想法一致。低温下星际分馏的理论模型预测D和15 N都有很大的富集，可以解释碳质陨石中测得的最大同位素富集。然而，最近的测量表明，在一些原始样品中，大的15 N富集与D中的一个不相关，并且一些富含D的原始材料显示很少（如果有的话）15 N富集。通过考虑自旋状态的依赖性，在涉及的邻位和帕拉形式的H2的离子-分子反应中，我们表明，氨和相关分子可以表现出这样一个广泛的分馏15 N和D在致密的云核。我们还表明，虽然腈，HCN和HNC，含有最大的15 N富集，这是不相关的极端D富集。因此，这些计算支持太阳系15 N和D同位素异常具有星际遗产的观点。我们还将我们的结果与现有的天文观测结果进行了比较，并简要讨论了未来对该模型的测试。
Organic material found in meteorites and interplanetary dust particles is enriched in D and 15N. This is consistent with the idea that the functional groups carrying these isotopic anomalies, nitriles and amines, were formed by ion–molecule chemistry in the protosolar nebula. Theoretical models of interstellar fractionation at low temperatures predict large enrichments in both D and 15N and can account for the largest isotopic enrichments measured in carbonaceous meteorites. However, more recent measurements have shown that, in some primitive samples, a large 15N enrichment does not correlate with one in D, and that some D-enriched primitive material displays little, if any, 15N enrichment. By considering the spin-state dependence in ion–molecule reactions involving the ortho and para forms of H2, we show that ammonia and related molecules can exhibit such a wide range of fractionation for both 15N and D in dense cloud cores. We also show that while the nitriles, HCN and HNC, contain the greatest 15N enrichment, this is not expected to correlate with extreme D enrichment. These calculations therefore support the view that solar system 15N and D isotopic anomalies have an interstellar heritage. We also compare our results to existing astronomical observations and briefly discuss future tests of this model.