Dissociative Recombination of the Thioformyl (HCS+) and Carbonyl Sulfide (OCS+) Cations
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Abstract
Branching ratios and absolute cross sections have been measured for the dissociative recombination of HCS+ and OCS+ at the CRYRING ion storage ring. In the case of OCS+, the channel leading to CO + S (83%) dominates, whereas the other exoergic pathways leading to CS + O (14%) and C + SO (3%) are of lesser importance. In the case of HCS+, fracture of the C–S bond is predominant (81%), with the production of H + CS accounting for the remainder (19%). The cross section of the reaction could be fitted by the expressions σ = 1.41 × 10-15E(eV)-1.11 and 4.47 × 10-16E(eV)-1.14 cm2 for HCS+ and OCS+, respectively. The derived energy dependences of the thermal reaction rate coefficients can be fitted by k(T) = 9.7 × 10-7(T/300)-0.57 and 3.5 × 10-7(T/300)-0.62 cm3 s-1 for HCS+ and OCS+, respectively. We use these data to perform model calculations on the HCS+/CS abundance ratio in dark clouds and find that the models using the UMIST and Ohio State University databases have even more difficulty in accounting for the large observed ratio.
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