The formaldehyde ortho/para ratio as a probe of dark cloud chemistry and evolution

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 518, Issue 2 PART 1, 1999, Pages 733-739

  Dickens, J E ^a,b   Irvine, W M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

ISM: abundances; ISM: clouds; ISM: molecules

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GAS; MICROCLIMATE; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ASTRONOMY; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; FORMALDEHYDE; GASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR;

EID: 0033587194     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/307317     Document Type: Article

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