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most citedMolecular excitation in the Interstellar Medium: recent advances in collisional, radiative and chemical processes

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astro-ph.GA2021★ 8 cited

Signatures of UV radiation in low-mass protostars I. Origin of HCN and CN emission in the Serpens Main region

A. Mirocha, A. Karska, M. Gronowski +6

Context: Ultraviolet radiation (UV) influences the physics and chemistry of star-forming regions, but its properties and significance in the immediate surroundings of low-mass prot…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 8 cited

CF excitation in the interstellar medium

Benjamin Desrousseaux, François Lique, Javier R. Goicoechea +2

The detection of CF in interstellar clouds potentially allows astronomers to infer the elemental fluorine abundance and the ionization fraction in ultraviolet-illuminated molec…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 22 cited

Physical and chemical modeling of the starless core L1512

Sheng-Jun Lin, Laurent Pagani, Shih-Ping Lai +2

The deuterium fractionation in starless cores gives us a clue to estimate their lifetime scales, thus allowing us to distinguish between different dynamical theories of core format…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 111 cited

ALMA and ROSINA detections of phosphorus-bearing molecules: the interstellar thread between star-forming regions and comets

V. M. Rivilla, M. N. Drozdovskaya, K. Altwegg +11

To understand how Phosphorus-bearing molecules are formed in star-forming regions, we have analysed ALMA observations of PN and PO towards the massive star-forming region AFGL 5142…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 8 cited

C-type shock modelling -- the effect of new H-H collisional rate coefficients

A. V. Nesterenok, D. Bossion, Y. Scribano +1

We consider collisional excitation of H molecules in C-type shocks propagating in dense molecular clouds. New data on collisional rate coefficients for (de-)excitation of H…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 9 cited

Temperature and density dependent cooling function for H with updated H/H collisional rates

Carla Maria Coppola, François Lique, Francesca Mazzia +2

The energy transfer among the components in a gas determines its fate. Especially at low temperatures, inelastic collisions drive the cooling and the heating mechanisms. In the ear…