Daniel I. Lucas

Trends in Methylidyne Radical Reactions at Temperatures Relevant to the Interstellar Medium

The methylidyne radical, CH, can react rapidly with an unusually broad range of molecules under temperatures relevant to cold molecular clouds, making CH an important driver of molecular complexity in the interstellar medium. This review focuses on reactions of CH with polyatomic...

Non-thermal effects and temperature disparities in uniform supersonic flows

Abstract Over the last 40 years, low-temperature reaction rate coefficients in astrochemical databases have largely come from CRESU ( Cinétique de Réaction en Ecoulement Supersonique Uniforme ) experiments, where the flow is described by a single temperature under an assumption o...