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Abundances of Linear Carbon-Chain Molecules in Supernovae
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  • Donald D Clayton, Clemson University
  • E Deneault, Clemson University
  • B S Meyer, Clemson University
  • L.-S. The, Clemson University
Publication Date
1-1-2001
Publisher
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXXII
Abstract

This paper continues our effort to under-stand the condensation of carbon solids in a gas of pure C and O atoms when these exist within the interior of an expanding young supernova. This setting has a sufficiently large number of energetic electrons that the CO molecule is disrupted with a lifetime of a few months, causing the abundance of CO to be no greater than 1% or so of the C abundance. As a consequence, the CO molecule cannot consume the available C atoms, even when the O abundance exceeds that of C

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