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Interstellar Water Chemistry: From Laboratory to Observations

van Dishoeck, Ewine F.; Neufeld, David A.; Herbst, Eric

Water is observed throughout the universe, from diffuse interstellar clouds to protoplanetary disks around young stars, and from comets in our own solar system and exoplanetary atmospheres to galaxies at high redshifts. This review summarizes the spectroscopy and excitation of water in interstellar space as well as the basic chemical processes tha…