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The field of astrochemistry has seen major advances triggered by the completion of new powerful radio telescopes, with gains in sensitivity of receivers and in bandwidth. To date, about 330 molecular species are detected, in interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Charlotte Vastel , Francesco Fontani

We report on the discovery of two new molecules, HCCCHCCC and HCCCCS, towards the starless core TMC-1 in the Taurus region from the QUIJOTE line survey in the 31.1-50.2 GHz frequency range. We identify a total of twenty-nine lines of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-09 R. Fuentetaja , M. Agúndez , C. Cabezas , B. Tercero , N. Marcelino , J. R. Pardo , P. de Vicente , J. Cernicharo

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

Recent observations indicate that organic molecules are prevalent towards starless and prestellar cores. Deuteration of these molecules has not been well-studied during the starless phase. Published observations of singly-deuterated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-02 Hannah E. Ambrose , Yancy L. Shirley , Samantha Scibelli

12C/13C isotopologue abundance anomalies have long been predicted for gas-phase chemistry in molecules other than CO and have recently been observed in the Taurus molecular cloud in several species hosting more than one carbon atom, i.e.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 H. S. Liszt , L. M. Ziurys

Broadband spectroscopic observations with high sensitivity provide an unbiased way to detect emissions of molecules in space. We present deep observations from ~ 105.8 GHz to 113.6 GHz toward 50 Galactic massive star-forming regions using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-16 Xuefang Xu , Junzhi Wang , Qian Gou , Juan Li , Donghui Quan , Di Li , Fei Li , Chunguo Duan , Juncheng Lei

The 100 square degree FCRAO CO survey of the Taurus molecular cloud provides an excellent opportunity to undertake an unbiased survey of a large, nearby, molecular cloud complex for molecular outflow activity. Our study provides information…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Gopal Narayanan , Ronald Snell , Ashley Bemis

We present a spectral line survey of the C-rich envelope CIT 6 in the 2mm and 1.3mm bands carried out with the Arizona Radio Observatory (ARO) 12m telescope and the Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope (SMT). The observations cover the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Yong Zhang , Sun Kwok , Dinh-V-Trung

The detection of complex organic molecules (COMs) toward dense, collapsing prestellar cores has sparked interest in the fields of astrochemistry and astrobiology, yet the mechanisms for COM formation are still debated. It was originally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Samantha Scibelli , Yancy Shirley

The discovery of amino acids in meteorites and the detection of glycine in samples returned from a comet to Earth suggest that the interstellar chemistry is capable of producing such complex organic molecules. Our goal is to investigate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-08-25 Arnaud Belloche , Holger S. P. Müller , Karl M. Menten , Peter Schilke , Claudia Comito

IRC +10216 is the prototypical carbon star exhibiting an extended molecular circumstellar envelope. Its spectral properties are therefore the template for an entire class of objects. The main goal is to systematically study the $\lambda$…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-28 Y. Gong , C. Henkel , S. Spezzano , S. Thorwirth , K. M. Menten , F. Wyrowski , R. Q. Mao , B. Klein

GEMS is an IRAM 30m Large Program whose aim is determining the elemental depletions and the ionization fraction in a set of prototypical star-forming regions. This paper presents the first results from the prototypical dark cloud TMC 1.…

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 study of the chemical composition of star-forming regions is key to understanding the chemical ingredients available during the formation of planetary systems. Because the chemical inventory of interstellar dust grains in prestellar…

In recent years we have seen an important increase in the number of protonated molecules detected in cold dense clouds. Here we report the detection in TMC-1 of HCCNCH+, the protonated form of HCCNC, which is a metastable isomer of HC3N.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-30 M. Agundez , C. Cabezas , N. Marcelino , R. Fuentetaja , B. Tercero , P. de Vicente , J. Cernicharo

We report the first detection in space of the cumulene carbon chain $l$-H$_2$C$_5$. A total of eleven rotational transitions, with $J_{up}$ = 7-10 and $K_a$ = 0 and 1, were detected in TMC-1 in the 31.0-50.4 GHz range using the Yebes 40m…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-23 C. Cabezas , B. Tercero , M. Agúndez , N. Marcelino , J. R. Pardo , P. de Vicente , J. Cernicharo

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) have long been invoked in the study of interstellar and protostellar sources, but the unambiguous identification of any individual PAH has proven elusive until very recently. As a result, the…

Trying to obtain a more complete picture of star forming regions in the Taurus Molecular Cloud, four newly discovered dense cores (L1521D, L1521F, L1524, L1507A) are identified and mapped through the ammonia (J,K)=(1,1) and (2,2) rotational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Codella , R. Welser , C. Henkel , P. J. Benson , P. C. Myers

We report the detection of the propargyl radical (CH2CCH) in the cold dark cloud TMC-1 in the lambda 3 mm wavelength band. We recently discovered this species in space toward the same source at a wavelength of lambda 8 mm. In those…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-19 M. Agundez , N. Marcelino , C. Cabezas , R. Fuentetaja , B. Tercero , P. de Vicente , J. Cernicharo

We present a catalogue of dense cores and filaments in a $3.8^{\circ}\times2.4^{\circ}$ field around the TMC1 region of the Taurus Molecular Cloud. The catalogue was created using photometric data from the Herschel SPIRE and PACS…