Strong and selective isotope effect in the vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation branching ratios of carbon monoxide

Carbon monoxide is the main C and O reservoir in interstellar media, where it undergoes photochemistry. The authors show that isotopic substitution affects not only its absorption. spectrum and photodissociation rates but also the branching ratio, key to understand isotopic. fractionation in the sol...

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Main Authors: Pan Jiang, Xiaoping Chi, Qihe Zhu, Min Cheng, Hong Gao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11086-z