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We present observations of the stretching mode of 13CO2 ice along 13 lines of sight in the Galaxy, using the Short Wavelength Spectrometer on board of the Infrared Space Observatory. Remarkable variations are seen in the absorption band…

We analyze the gamma-ray emission from 9 high latitude, translucent molecular clouds taken with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) between 250 MeV and 10 GeV. Observations of gamma-rays allow us to probe the density and spectrum of cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 R. D. Abrahams , T. A. D. Paglione

We present new measurements of the ground state fine-structure line of atomic carbon at 492 GHz in a variety of nearby external galaxies, ranging from spiral to irregular, interacting and merging types. In comparison with CO(1-0), the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Maryvonne Gerin , Thomas G. Phillips

We present molecular line observations, made with angular resolutions of ~20", toward the filamentary infrared dark cloud G34.43+0.24 using the APEX [CO(3-2), 13CO(3-2), C18O(3-2) and CS(7-6) transitions], Nobeyama 45 m [CS(2-1), SiO(2-1),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-17 Patricio Sanhueza , Guido Garay , Leonardo Bronfman , Diego Mardones , Jorge May , Masao Saito

CO has long been thought to be the best tracer to measure gas masses as it is readily detected at (sub)mm wavelengths in many disks. Inferred gas masses from CO in recent ALMA observations of large samples of disks seem inconsistent with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Arthur D. Bosman , Ewine F. van Dishoeck , Catherine Walsh

The acceleration of cosmic ray particles and their propagation in the Milky Way and the heliosphere tangle with each other, leading to complexity and degeneracy of the modeling of Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs). The recent measurements of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Cheng-Rui Zhu , Qiang Yuan , Da-Ming Wei

To better understand the initial conditions of the high-mass star formation process, it is crucial to study at high-angular resolution the morphology, the kinematics, and eventually the interactions of the coldest condensations associated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Fontani , Q. Zhang , P. Caselli , T. L. Bourke

We present large-scale submm observations towards the Sgr A Complex covering ~300 arcmin2. These data were obtained in the frame of the HEXGAL Program with the Herschel-HIFI satellite and are complemented with submm observations obtained…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-15 P. García , R. Simon , J. Stutzki , R. Güsten , M. A. Requena-Torres , R. Higgins

Massive star-forming regions exhibit an extremely rich and diverse chemistry, which in principle provides a wealth of molecular probes, as well as laboratories for interstellar prebiotic chemistry. Since the chemical structure of these…

We have observed with the 30-m IRAM telescope, the CSO telescope and the ISOsatellite (Infrared Space Observatory) the rotational lines of CO at millimeter, submillimeter and far infrared wavelengths in the direction of C-rich stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Herpin , J. R. Goicoechea , J. R. Pardo , J. Cernicharo

During the recent solar minimum between cycles 23 and 24 (solar minimum $P_{23/24}$) the intensity of Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) measured at the Earth was the highest ever recorded since space age. It is the purpose of this paper to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-04 L. -L. Zhao , G. Qin , M. Zhang , B. Heber

Low-energy cosmic rays are a fundamental source of ionization for molecular clouds, influencing their chemical, thermal and dynamical evolution. The purpose of this work is to explore the possibility that a low-energy component of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marco Padovani , Daniele Galli , Alfred E. Glassgold

We studied the cloud-cloud collision candidate G323.18+0.15 based on signatures of induced filaments, clumps, and star formation. We used archival molecular spectrum line data from the SEDIGISM $^{13}$CO($J$\,=\,2--1) survey, from the Mopra…

We use deep spectroscopy from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide-Field-Camera 3 (WFC3) IR grisms combined with broad-band photometry to study the stellar populations, gas ionization and chemical abundances in star-forming galaxies at…

We present high spectral resolution optical spectra obtained with the ARCES instrument at Apache Point Observatory showing detection of the [OI]6300 A line in interstellar comet 2I/Borisov. We employ the observed flux in this line to derive…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Adam J. McKay , Anita L. Cochran , Neil Dello Russo , Michael DiSanti

The gas near the midplanes of planet-forming protostellar disks remains largely unprobed by observations due to the high optical depth of commonly observed molecules such as CO and H$_2$O. However, rotational emission lines from rare…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Mo Yu , Karen Willacy , Sarah E. Dodson-Robinson , Neal J. Turner , Neal J. Evans

We have performed new laboratory experiments which gave us the possibility to obtain an estimate of the amount of carbon chain oxides (namely C3O2, C2O, and C3O) formed after irradiation (with 200 keV protons) of pure CO ice, at 16 K. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. E. Palumbo , P. Leto , C. Siringo , C. Trigilio

Hubble Space Telescope observations of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov near perihelion show the ejection of large (>~100 um) particles at <~9 m/s speeds, with estimated mass-loss rates of ~35 kg/s. The total mass loss from comet Borisov…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Yoonyoung Kim , David Jewitt , Max Mutchler , Jessica Agarwal , Man-To Hui , Harold Weaver

Methyl carbamate CH$_3$OC(O)NH$_2$ is an isomer of glycine. Quantum chemical analyses show that methyl carbamate is more stable isomer than glycine. Because of this, there could be a higher chance for methyl carbamte to exist in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-19 Dipen Sahu , Sheng-Yuan Liu , Ankan Das , Prasanta Gorai , Valentine Wakelam

We present an analysis of the molecular and atomic gas emission in the rest-frame far-infrared and sub-millimetre, from the lensed z=2.3 sub-millimetre galaxy SMM J2135-0102. We obtain very high signal-to-noise detections of 11 transitions…