The heat capacity of water ice in interstellar or interplanetary conditions
Abstract
Three empirical equations are proposed to describe the existing experimental data on the heat capacity of water ice for 0 K ≤ T ≤ 273 K. This may be important for the rate of non-stationary thermal processes at very low temperatures in cometary nuclei or cosmogonical scenarios.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- March 2004
- DOI:
- 10.1051/0004-6361:20031746
- Bibcode:
- 2004A&A...416..187S
- Keywords:
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- ISM: molecules;
- comets: general;
- stars: formation