128 citations · 1.7k across the 108 of their papers we have counts for
120 papers
The environments forming stellar and planetary systems
Michael Kuffmeier, Jaime E. Pineda, Peter Schilke +29
How does a star's birth environment set the mass, angular momentum and chemical complexity delivered to its planet-forming disk, and thereby whether it builds planets, brown dwarfs…
Chemical Demographics of Star-forming Regions
Maria N. Drozdovskaya, Timea Csengeri, Maria Teresa Beltrán +35
Our understanding of complex organic chemistry during the formation of stars and planets is shaped by a handful of cherry-picked sources with bright molecular emission lines. This…
Chemistry on solar system scales
Catherine Walsh, Maria Drozdovskaya, Dmitry Semenov +33
The initial chemical composition of planets, primitive bodies in our solar system, and exoplanets is ultimately set by their nascent protoplanetary disks. Yet observing key carbon-…
Star Formation across the Galaxy
Alvaro Sanchez-Monge, Henrik Beuther, Maryvonne Gerin +41
Star formation is both a multi-scale and highly dynamic process. It is regulated by the combination of gravity, turbulence, feedback and magnetic fields, which connect more than si…
From Scaling Relations to Physical Laws: Constraining the Physics of Star Formation Across Local Galaxies
Jakob den Brok, Cecilia Bacchini, Leindert A. Boogaard +21
The conversion of cold dense gas, traced by molecular line emission, into stars remains one of the fundamental unsolved problems in galaxy evolution. Observations over the past dec…
Frontiers of chemical complexity in the interstellar medium: unveiling the cosmic origins of life
Víctor M. Rivilla, Miguel Sanz-Novo, Maite Beltrán +33
The interstellar medium (ISM) contains a rich molecular inventory that provides a unique window into the chemistry operating during star and planet formation and its connection to…
From local chemistry to galactic evolution: unlocking the power of interstellar isotopes with ALMA2040
Laura Colzi, Hayley A. Bunn, Víctor M. Rivilla +29
Molecular isotopic ratios provide a unique window into the chemical evolution of the interstellar medium, linking stellar nucleosynthesis and Galactic chemical evolution to the phy…
Molecular atlas of nearby galaxies through sensitive high-resolution multi-band molecular line surveys
Mathilde Bouvier, Erica Behrens, Laura Colzi +21
Star formation and associated feedback processes play a key role in galaxy evolution. Astrochemistry is a powerful tool for characterising the physical conditions of dense star-for…
Tracking the flow of interstellar gas across scales: from galaxies to star clusters
Ana Duarte-Cabral, Maxime Valeille-Manet, Mathilde Bouvier +30
While the baryon cycle of the interstellar medium - and its ability to form stars - plays a key role in galaxy evolution, unravelling the physical processes driving its evolution r…
Unveiling star formation at sub-solar metallicity with ALMA2040
Francesco Fontani, Frédérique Motte, Maria T. Beltrán +9
A fundamental question in astrophysics is whether the processes governing star formation are universal or depend on the physical conditions of their local galactic environment. The…
CHemical Evolution in MassIve star-forming COres (CHEMICO). II. Molecular ions, electron fraction, and cosmic-ray ionisation rate
F. Fontani, E. Roueff, V. M. Rivilla +5
Molecular ions are crucial in initiating and regulating the formation of molecules in the interstellar medium, and are expected to be sensitive tracers of evolution in star-forming…
The Galactic centre G+0.633-0.0604 molecular cloud: A new astrochemical gold mine: II. Chemical richness
D. San Andrés, V. M. Rivilla, L. Colzi +4
In recent years, the inventory of interstellar molecules has rapidly grown, yet detections of complex species are confined to a few chemically rich sources, raising the question of…
ACES VIII: A Survey of Compact, High-Velocity Features Observed in CS(2-1)
Dani R. Lipman, Jakub Poznanski, Savannah R. Gramze +46
The extreme kinematics of the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) are influenced by processes such as dynamical shearing, cloud collisions, and stellar feedback. These events…
ACES VII. Compact Continuum Source Catalog of the Central Molecular Zone
Jennifer Wallace, Cara Battersby, Nazar Budaiev +58
The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) resides in the inner few hundred parsecs of our Galaxy, and despite being the largest reservoir of dense molecular gas in the Milky Way, it has a r…
The Galactic Centre G+0.633-0.0604 Molecular Cloud: A New Gold Mine for Astrochemistry
D. San Andrés, V. M. Rivilla, L. Colzi +4
Astrochemistry is living a golden age, with more than a quarter of the ~350 molecules in the current interstellar census having been detected over the last three years. One of the…
Electron temperature and emission measure of HII regions in the central molecular zone (CMZ) from H40 αrecombination line and continuum emissions by ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey - ACES -
Yoshiaki Sofue, Steven N. Longmore, Daniel Walker +40
Star formation activity in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) directly manifests itself as radio continuum free-free emission (Bremsstrahlung) and radio recombination line emission f…
Chemical modelling of interstellar MgS
M. Rey-Montejo, I. Jimenez-Serra, T. Millar +8
The detection of magnesium sulphide (MgS) and sodium sulphide (NaS) towards the Galactic Center molecular cloud G+0.693 constitutes the first detection of metal sulphides in the in…
A tale of two isotopes: Spatial variation in HCN fractionation toward young cores
Sigurd S. Jensen, Silvia Spezzano, Olli Sipilä +3
Context. Isotopic fractionation can serve as a powerful tracer of the chemical evolution during star and planet formation. To accurately interpret observations, it is crucial to id…
High C/C isotopic ratios toward G+0.693-0.027: evidence for gas inflow to the Central Molecular Zone
L. Colzi, O. Sipilä, I. Jiménez-Serra +4
Isotopic ratios are key tracers of Galactic chemical evolution because different isotopes are synthesized through distinct stellar nucleosynthesis processes. While the C/$^{…
The Galactic centre G+0.633-0.0604 molecular cloud: A new astrochemical gold mine: I. Gas physical properties
D. San Andrés, L. Colzi, V. M. Rivilla +4
In the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), shocks play a key role in triggering star formation and driving chemical enrichment. The Sgr B2 complex is a prime template, hosting massive pr…
Chemical Complexity in the Early Stages of Star Formation in the SKAO Era
Eleonora Bianchi, Mathilde Bouvier, Claudio Codella +44
About 350 molecules have been identified in the interstellar medium (ISM), including complex molecules relevant to prebiotic chemistry. A remarkable level of molecular diversity ha…
ALMAGAL IX. The chemical complexity of AG318.9477-00.1960: A line-identification template for ALMAGAL
J. Allande, M. T. Beltrán, V. M. Rivilla +36
We present a detailed molecular line analysis of one of the most chemically rich cores in the ALMAGAL sample, the high-mass core~9 in the AG318.9477-00.1960 clump (AG318-c9), locat…
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…
Aromatic rings in the Central Molecular Zone: Benzonitrile
V. M. Rivilla, D. San Andrés, M. Sanz-Novo +12
In recent years, several aromatic molecules (benzene-based rings) have been detected in the cold molecular cloud TMC-1, with its CN-derivative, benzonitrile (c-CHCN), also…