Methanol as a diagnostic tool of interstellar clouds I. Model calculations and application to molecular clouds

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 422, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 573-585

  Leurini, S ^a   Schilke, P ^a   Menten, K M ^a   Flower, D R ^b   Pottage, J T ^b   Xu, L H ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

ISM: clouds; ISM: molecules; Molecular processes

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ION EXCHANGE; KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHANOL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACE RESEARCH;

CLOUDS-MOLECULAR PROCESSES; ISM; MOLECULES-ISM; RATE COEFFICIENTS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 3342970487     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20047046     Document Type: Article

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