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Detection of complex nitrogen-bearing molecule ethyl cyanide towards the hot molecular core G10.47+0.03

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2023-06-01 v3 Chemical Physics

Abstract

The studies of the complex organic molecular lines towards the hot molecular cores at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths provide instructive knowledge about the chemical complexity in the interstellar medium (ISM). We present the detection of the rotational emission lines of the complex nitrogen-bearing molecule ethyl cyanide (C2_{2}H5_{5}CN) towards the chemically rich hot molecular core G10.47+0.03 using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) band 4 observations. The estimated column density of C2_{2}H5_{5}CN towards the G10.47+0.03 is (7.7±\pm0.5)×\times1016^{16} cm2^{-2} with the high rotational temperature of 352.9±\pm66.8 K. The estimated fractional abundance of C2_{2}H5_{5}CN with respect to H2_{2} towards the G10.47+0.03 is 5.70×\times109^{-9}. We observe that the estimated fractional abundance of C2_{2}H5_{5}CN is similar to the existing three-phase warm-up chemical modelling abundance of C2_{2}H5_{5}CN. We also discuss the possible formation mechanism of C2_{2}H5_{5}CN towards the hot molecular cores, and we claim the barrierless and exothermic radical-radical reaction between CH2_{2} and CH2_{2}CN is responsible for the production of low abundant of C2_{2}H5_{5}CN (\sim109^{-9}) in the grain surface of G10.47+0.03.

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@article{arxiv.2211.01608,
  title  = {Detection of complex nitrogen-bearing molecule ethyl cyanide towards the hot molecular core G10.47+0.03},
  author = {Arijit Manna and Sabyasachi Pal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.01608},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Published in Astrophysics and Space Science, 13 pages, 5 figures