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Spectral lines from interstellar molecules provide crucial insights into the physical and chemical conditions of the interstellar medium. Traditional spectral line analysis relies heavily on manual intervention, which becomes impractical…

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The identification of spectral lines can be a tedious process requiring the interrogation of large spectroscopic databases, but it does lend itself to software algorithms that can determine the characteristics of candidate line…

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The search for complex organic molecules in the interstellar medium (ISM) has revealed species of ever greater complexity. This search relies on the progress made in the laboratory to characterize their rotational spectra. Our understanding…

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In this work, we present the program MOLLId (MOLecular Line Identification) for automated molecular lines approximation with gaussian profile. Molecular identification was performed using multi-level comparison of the lines' center…

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In order to measure automatically the equivalent width of the Balmer lines in a database of 40,000 atmosphere models, we have developed a program that mimics the work of an astronomer in terms of identifying and eliminating secondary…

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Despite being the main tool to visualize molecules at the atomic scale, AFM with CO-functionalized metal tips is unable to chemically identify the observed molecules. Here we present a strategy to address this challenging task using deep…

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Observations of molecular lines are a key tool to determine the main physical properties of prestellar cores. However, not all the information is retained in the observational process or easily interpretable, especially when a larger number…

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A proof-of-concept framework for identifying molecules of unknown elemental composition and structure using experimental rotational data and probabilistic deep learning is presented. Using a minimal set of input data determined…

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Urea, NH2C(O)NH2, is a molecule of great importance in organic chemistry and biology. Two searches for urea in the interstellar medium were reported in the past, but neither were conclusive. We want to take advantage of the increased…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-31 A. Belloche , R. T. Garrod , H. S. P. Müller , K. M. Menten , I. Medvedev , J. Thomas , Z. Kisiel

Interpreting spectroscopy data is a critical bottleneck in automating chemical research and industrial characterization. Particularly within infrared (IR) spectroscopy, identifying compounds in complex, liquid-phase chemical mixtures…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-26 Yannah J. U. Melle , Thanh Nguyen , Jeffrey Lopez , Daniel Schwalbe-Koda

LineStacker is a new open access and open source tool for stacking of spectral lines in interferometric data. LineStacker is an ensemble of CASA tasks, and can stack both 3D cubes or already extracted spectra. The algorithm is tested on…

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Molecules reside broadly in the interstellar space and can be detected via spectroscopic observations. To date, more than 271 molecular species have been identified in interstellar medium or circumstellar envelopes. Molecular spectroscopic…

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Modern radio interferometers enable observations of spectral lines with unprecedented spatial resolution and sensitivity. In spite of these technical advances, many lines of interest are still at best weakly detected and therefore…

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SpectroWeb is an online maintained interactive graphical database of digital spectral atlases of spectral standard stars at http://spectra.freeshell.org . It is an efficient and user-friendly research tool for accurate analyses of stellar…

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Mapping molecular line emission beyond the bright low-J CO transitions is still challenging in extragalactic studies, even with the latest generation of (sub-)mm interferometers, such as ALMA and NOEMA. We summarise and test a spectral…

Theoretical stellar spectra rely on model stellar atmospheres computed based on our understanding of the physical laws at play in the stellar interiors. These models, coupled with atomic and molecular line databases, are used to generate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Kaushal Sharma , Harinder P. Singh , Ranjan Gupta , Ajit Kembhavi , Kaustubh Vaghmare , Jianrong Shi , Yongheng Zhao , Jiannan Zhang , Yue Wu

The aim of this article is to demonstrate the useful role that can be played by spectropolarimetric observations of young and evolved emission line stars that analyse the linearly polarized component in their spectra. At the time of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Janet Drew , Jorick Vink , Tim Harries , Ryuichi Kurosawa , Rene Oudmaijer

Automated molecular structure elucidation remains challenging, as existing approaches often depend on pre-compiled databases or restrict themselves to single spectroscopic modalities. Here we introduce SpectraLLM, a large language model…

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The characterization of interstellar chemical inventories provides valuable insight into the chemical and physical processes in astrophysical sources. The discovery of new interstellar molecules becomes increasingly difficult as the number…

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