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Since 1995, more than 500 exoplanets have been detected using different techniques, of which 11 were detected with gravitational microlensing. Most of these are gravitationally bound to their host stars. There is some evidence of…

The ongoing quest to identify molecules in the interstellar medium by their electronic spectra in the visible region is reviewed. Identification of molecular absorption is described in the context of the elucidation of the carriers of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-10 T. W. Schmidt , R. G. Sharp

We have conducted a 3-mm molecular-line survey towards 570 high-mass star-forming clumps, using the Mopra telescope. The sample is selected from the 10,000 clumps identified by the ATLASGAL survey and includes all of the most important…

We have conducted a mapping spectral line survey toward the Galactic giant molecular cloud W51 in the 3 mm band with the Mopra 22 m telescope in order to study an averaged chemical composition of the gas extended over a molecular cloud…

Diffuse and translucent molecular clouds fill a vast majority of the interstellar space in the galactic disk being thus the most typical objects of the Interstellar Medium (ISM). Recent advances in observational techniques of modern optical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-18 T. Weselak

Since molecules are ubiquitous in space, the study of the 'Molecular Universe' could unfold the mystery of the existing Interstellar medium. Star formation is linked to the chemical evolution processes. Thus, an analysis of the formation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-29 Bratati Bhat

The presence of carbon-chain molecules in the interstellar medium (ISM) has been known since the early 1970s and $>130$ such species have been identified to date, making up $\sim 43$% of the total of detected ISM molecules. They are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-15 Kotomi Taniguchi , Prasanta Gorai , Jonathan C. Tan

The local detection rate of interstellar objects can allow for estimations of the total number of similar objects bound by the Milky Way thin disk. If interstellar objects of artificial origin are discovered, the estimated total number of…

Popular Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Carson Ezell , Abraham Loeb

We present an unbiased molecular line survey toward the carbon-rich circumstellar envelope CIT 6 carried out between 90 and 116 GHz with the Arizona Radio Observatory 12 m telescope. A total of 42 lines assigned to 10 molecular species and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-01 Kui-Lu Yang , Yong Zhang , Jian-Jie Qiu , Yi-Na Ao , Xiao-Hu Li

The physical and chemical conditions in Class 0/I protostars are fundamental in unlocking the protostellar accretion process and its impact on planet formation. The aim is to determine which physical components are traced by different…

I present two catalogs. The first one contains the observed and infered data of all of 133 stars wich harbor confirmed extrasolar planets. For these 133 stars I report the following data: stellar mass; spectral type; luminosity class;…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Espresate

We present the results of detailed spectroscopic abundance analyses for 18 elements in 31 nearby stars with planets. The resulting abundances are combined with other similar studies of nearby stars with planets and compared to a sample of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Guillermo Gonzalez , Chris Laws

The precursors to larger, biologically-relevant molecules are detected throughout interstellar space, but determining the presence and properties of these molecules during planet formation requires observations of protoplanetary disks at…

Thanks to the advent of sensitive and broad bandwidth instrumentation, complex organic molecules (COMs) have been found in a wide variety of interstellar environments, not only in our Galaxy but also in external galaxies up to a redshift of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-24 Izaskun Jimenez-Serra , Claudio Codella , Arnaud Belloche

Almost 200 different species have been detected in the interstellar medium (ISM) during the last decades, revealing not only simple species but complex molecules with more than 6 atoms. Other exotic compounds, like the weakly-bound dimer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-26 A. Potapov , A. Sanchez-Monge , P. Schilke , U. U. Graf , Th. Moeller , S. Schlemmer

The main achievements, current developments and prospects of molecular studies in external galaxies are reviewed. They are put in the context of the results of several decades of studies of molecules in local interstellar medium, their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Alain Omont

Observations of dense molecular gas lie at the basis of our understanding of the density and temperature structure of protostellar envelopes and molecular outflows. We aim to characterize the properties of the protostellar envelope,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 T. A. van Kempen , E. F. van Dishoeck , M. R. Hogerheijde , R. Guesten

In this work we report spectrophotometric observations of a planetary nebula sample towards the galactic bulge. A total of 45 PNe was observed and their physical parameters (electron density and temperature) were derived. Ionic abundances…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. V. Escudero , R. D. D. Costa

Understanding the distribution and properties of molecular clouds is crucial for tracing the structure and evolution of the interstellar medium and the large-scale morphology of the Milky Way. Here we present an all-sky catalog of 3,345…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-10 Tao Wang , Haibo Yuan , Bingqiu Chen , Guangxing Li , Bowen Huang , Helong Guo , Ruoyi Zhang

Accurate enthalpies of formation are reported for known and potential astromolecules using high level ab initio quantum chemical calculations. A total of 130 molecules comprising of 31 isomeric groups and 24 cyanide/isocyanide pairs with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-03 Emmanuel E. Etim , Elangannan Arunan