Computational modeling of circumstellar environment of protostars by employing data of bombarded ices with cosmic rays simulated in laboratory

• Grant number: 13/07657-5
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): August 01, 2013
• Effective date (End): July 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy - Astrophysics of the Interstellar Medium
• Principal Investigator: Sergio Pilling Guapyassu de Oliveira
• Grantee: Will Robson Monteiro Rocha
• Home Institution: Instituto de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento (IP&D). Universidade do Vale do Paraíba (UNIVAP). São José dos Campos , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 09/18304-0 - Synthesis and degradation of prebiotic molecular species at planetary atmospheres, comets and interstellar ice analogs, AP.JP

Abstract

The aims of the project is to study the radiation-matter interaction inside dense molecular clouds using optical properties of interstellar grains determined from experimental data at the infrared wavelength region and computational model.

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

RACHID, M. G.; PILLING, S.; ROCHA, W. R. M.; AGNIHOTRI, A.; ROTHARD, H.; BODUCH, P. Processing of 72-K water-rich ices by keV and MeV oxygen ions: implications for the Saturnian moon Enceladus. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 494, n. 2, p. 2396-2409, MAY 2020. Web of Science Citations: 0.

ROCHA, W. R. M.; PILLING, S.; DOMARACKA, A.; ROTHARD, H.; BODUCH, P. Infrared complex refractive index of N-containing astrophysical ices free of water processed by cosmic-ray simulated in laboratory. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY, v. 228, MAR 5 2020. Web of Science Citations: 0.

PILLING, S.; ROCHA, W. R. M.; FREITAS, F. M.; DA SILVA, P. A. Photochemistry and desorption induced by X-rays in water rich astrophysical ice analogs: implications for the moon Enceladus and other frozen space environments. RSC ADVANCES, v. 9, n. 49, p. 28823-28840, SEP 12 2019. Web of Science Citations: 0.

VASCONCELOS, FREDSON DE A.; PILLING, SERGIO; ROCHA, WILL R. M.; ROTHARD, HERMANN; BODUCH, PHILIPPE. Energetic Processing of N-2:CH4 Ices Employing X-Rays and Swift Ions: Implications for Icy Bodies in the Outer Solar System. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, v. 850, n. 2 DEC 1 2017. Web of Science Citations: 3.

VASCONCELOS, F. A.; PILLING, S.; ROCHA, W. R. M.; ROTHARD, H.; BODUCH, P. Radiolysis of N-2-rich astrophysical ice by swift oxygen ions: implication for space weathering of outer solar system bodies. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, v. 19, n. 35, p. 24154-24165, SEP 21 2017. Web of Science Citations: 4.

VASCONCELOS, F. A.; PILLING, S.; ROCHA, W. R. M.; ROTHARD, H.; BODUCH, P.; DING, J. J. Ion irradiation of pure and amorphous CH4 ice relevant for astrophysical environments. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, v. 19, n. 20, p. 12845-12856, MAY 28 2017. Web of Science Citations: 13.

ROCHA, W. R. M.; PILLING, S.; DE BARROS, A. L. F.; ANDRADE, D. P. P.; ROTHARD, H.; BODUCH, P. Infrared complex refractive index of astrophysical ices exposed to cosmic rays simulated in the laboratory. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 464, n. 1, p. 754-767, JAN 2017. Web of Science Citations: 3.

BOSSA, JEAN-BAPTISTE; MATE, BELEN; FRANSEN, COEN; CAZAUX, STEPHANIE; PILLING, SERGIO; MONTEIRO ROCHA, WILL ROBSON; ORTIGOSO, JUAN; LINNARTZ, HAROLD. POROSITY AND BAND-STRENGTH MEASUREMENTS OF MULTI-PHASE COMPOSITE ICES. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, v. 814, n. 1 NOV 20 2015. Web of Science Citations: 10.

ROCHA, W. R. M.; PILLING, S. COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF THE CLASS I LOW-MASS PROTOSTAR ELIAS 29 APPLYING OPTICAL CONSTANTS OF ICES PROCESSED BY HIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAY ANALOGS. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, v. 803, n. 1 APR 10 2015. Web of Science Citations: 6.

ROCHA, W. R. M.; PILLING, S. Determination of optical constants n and k of thin films from absorbance data using Kramers-Kronig relationship. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY, v. 123, p. 436-446, APR 5 2014. Web of Science Citations: 13.