Ordu, Matthias Hakan (2017). Rotational spectroscopy of acetone and its mono-13C isotopologues. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
Acetone, (CH3)2CO, is among the largest molecules detected so far in the interstellar medium or circumstellar shells. The origins of this chemical richness in space are a matter of current astrochemical research. Comparing the interstellar abundances of complex molecules to their isotopically substituted analogues will be pivotal to identify the reaction pathways that have brought about this phenomenon which is touching our understanding of star formation and the origin of life. Detecting an interstellar molecular species and measuring its abundance can only succeed if a precise prediction of its rotational spectrum has been derived from laboratory observations. Acetone belongs to the most difficult cases known in this regard, as the coupling between the large-amplitude motions of its two torsionally oscillating methyl groups and the overall rotation is especially strong. It was not before 2005 that technology allowed for a definite detection of acetone in the interstellar medium. However, interstellar spectra of today's ALMA era contain many new lines from already detected molecules which are not assignable to them because the once successful predictions are too imprecise in some quantum number ranges which were not detectable in the past. During the attempts to model the laboratory spectrum of acetone-2-13C it became clear that the necessary precision for a prediction which will match the needs of modern astrophysics cannot be gained without amendments to the model. Afterwards, this enhanced model could be successfully applied to the spectrum of acetone-12C as well. In this thesis, the resulting model parameters which enable new predictions for the rotational spectra of acetone-12C, acetone-1-13C, and acetone-2-13C are presented after a detailed discussion of the enhanced model. Furthermore, a first example is shown where spectral lines from the corrected prediction for acetone-12C were successfully identified in a spectrum from the star-forming region Sgr B2.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-75559 | ||||||||
Date: | 24 April 2017 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Physics > Institute of Physics I | ||||||||
Subjects: | Physics Chemistry and allied sciences |
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Date of oral exam: | 22 April 2016 | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/7556 |
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