Discovery of the first Ca-bearing molecule in space: CaNC

J. Cernicharo, L. Velilla-Prieto, M. Agúndez +6

We report on the detection of calcium isocyanide, CaNC, in the carbon-rich evolved star IRC+10216. We derived a column density for this species of (2.0$\pm$0.5)$\times$10${}^{11}$ cm…