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most citedRotational spectroscopic study and astronomical search for propiolamide in Sgr B2(N)

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astro-ph.GA2026

Detection of a four-carbon sugar in interstellar space

Izaskun Jimenez-Serra, Juan Garcia de la Concepcion, Herma M. Cuppen +19

Sugars are essential biomolecules, serving as metabolic fuels, nucleic acid backbone components, and structural or energy-storage polymers. A central question in origin-of-life res…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

Expanding the CHO Isomeric Interstellar Inventory: Discovery of Lactaldehyde and Methoxyacetaldehyde in G+0.693-0.027

M. Sanz-Novo, V. M. Rivilla, I. Jiménez-Serra +17

The tentative detection of 3-hydroxypropanal (HO(CH)C(O)H) toward the Galactic center molecular cloud G+0.693-0.027 prompts a systematic survey in this source aimed at dete…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 3 cited

The SKA as a prebiotic molecule detector

Izaskun Jimenez-Serra, Jesus Martin-Pintado, Aran Insausti +3

One of the theories for the origin of life proposes that a significant fraction of prebiotic material could have arrived to Earth from outer space between 4.1 and 3.8 billion years…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 7 cited

Rotational spectroscopic study and astronomical search for propiolamide in Sgr B2(N)

E. R. Alonso, L. Kolesniková, A. Belloche +8

For all the amides detected in the interstellar medium (ISM), the corresponding nitriles or isonitriles have also been detected in the ISM, some of which have relatively high abund…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 2 cited

CAB: Towards the RNA-world in the interstellar medium -- detection of urea, and search of 2-amino-oxazole and simple sugars

Izaskun Jimenez-Serra, Jesus Martin-Pintado, Victor M. Rivilla +8

In the past decade, Astrochemistry has witnessed an impressive increase in the number of detections of complex organic molecules. Some of these species are of prebiotic interest su…