Reduced networks governing the fractional ionisation in interstellar molecular clouds

¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
² School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

Corresponding author: J. G. L. Rae, jglr@ast.leeds.ac.uk

Received: 7 November 2001
Accepted: 6 December 2001

Abstract

We have used objective techniques to identify, from a huge chemical network, reduced networks that accurately describe the chemistry governing the fractional ionisation in interstellar molecular clouds under a wide variety of conditions.