Physical processes in the ISM

Session

Laboratory Astrophysics

22 Oct 2013, 10:55

MPE

Conveners

Laboratory Astrophysics

• Simon Glover

57. Laboratory Studies of Dust Formation and Processing

Cornelia Jäger (Laboratory Astrophysics Group of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)

22/10/2013, 10:55

review talk

68. Combining experimental techniques for comprehensive astrophysical case studies

Holger Kreckel (MPIK, Heidelberg)

22/10/2013, 11:35

contributed talk

As an ever increasing number of molecules are observed in interstellar space, accurate laboratory data on their formation and destruction processes will be required to understand interstellar reaction networks. Astrochemical models have identified ion-molecule reactions as one of the drivers for the buildup of molecules in space. On the other hand, dissociative recombination with free...

106. Laboratory studies on electron collisions of atomic and molecular ions

Andreas Wolf (MPIK, Heidelberg)

22/10/2013, 11:50

contributed talk

Low energy collisions of electrons with atomic and molecular ions are among the most basic microscopic interactions in the interstellar medium. Electron-ion recombination limits the abundance of charged atoms molecules and, as dissociative recombination of molecular ions, produces neutral radical fragments for gas phase reaction chains. Moreover, electron impact excitation can influence...