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Formation, destruction and chemical influences of water ice: A review of recent laboratory results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2016

Karin I. Öberg*
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138 email: koberg@cfa.harvard.edu
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Water ice is the dominant constituent of icy grain mantles in the interstellar medium, and as such one of the most abundant species during all stages of star and planet formation. Its formation through atom addition reactions on grain surfaces, its destruction through different desorption channels, and its influence on the chemistry and desorption efficiencies of other species in icy grain mantles have all been the objects of intense study. This contribution reviews our current understanding of these processes, and the laboratory experiments that have been instrumental in establishing the existing paradigm.

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