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Comparison of desorption profiles generated with the TST (red) or the Hasegawa (blue) prefactor. Left panel: Desorption profiles of CH3NCO, CH3C(O)NH2, and NH2C(O)NH2. The desorption energies are determined with the Redhead-TST method using data from Ligterink et al. (2017, 2018a; see Table A.2 and top left corners). Desorption profiles are plotted for vTST (red) and with vHasegawa (blue). The desorption profile is simulated with a first-order Polanyi-Wigner equation, surface coverage of 1 × 1015 molecules cm−2, and heating rate of 1 K century−1. Peak desorption temperatures decrease by ~30% when realistic pre-factors are used. Right panel: Ice (solid) and gas (dashed) abundances plotted against radius (au) of a protoplanetary disk for vTST (red) and with vHasegawa (blue). An average disk temperature profile of T(r) = 200 × (r/1 AU)0.62 K is used (Andrews & Williams 2007). For each 1 K temperature step, the number of desorbed molecules is determined, which summed give the gas-phase column density and subtracted from a starting value of 1 × 1015 cm−2 give the ice column density. The TST abundances are offset by a factor of 10 for easier viewing. The peak radii of the ice-gas inversion are indicated and are shown to shift outward by ~50% when realistic pre-factors are used.
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