EPJ Web of Conferences 18, 01001 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20111801001

Introducing Cosmic Chemistry

Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, UMR 8617, CNRS, Université Paris-sud XI, Bât. 121, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France

^a e-mail: laurent.verstraete@ias.u-psud.fr

Abstract

The chemistry of cosmic diffuse gas as well as its astrophysical significance is discussed from the primordial gas to cold cores where stars can form.