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Collisional excitation of E- and Z-ethanimine to model cold molecular clouds
Francesca Tonolo, Vivek Vijay, Ernesto Quintas-Sánchez +5
Context. Ethanimine is a prebiotically relevant complex organic molecule that has been proposed as a key precursor of amino acids in the interstellar medium. To date, both its E an…
Collisional energy transfer in ethanimine + He system
Vivek Vijay, Francesca Tonolo, Ernesto Quintas-Sánchez +5
The ethanimine molecule, CH3CHNH, is one of the prebiotic molecules detected by astronomers in chemically-rich molecular clouds in the Galactic Center. The observations indicate a…
Collisional excitation of HCO by He: Experimental validation of state-of-the-art scattering calculations
Chinmai Sai Jureddy, Sandor Demes, Francesca Tonolo +2
Non-local thermodynamic equilibrium conditions in the interstellar medium require collisional rate coefficients to model astronomical observations; these are usually determined fro…
Quantum and Structural Effects Captured via a Statistical Method: the SACM Applied to HCN and HNC Colliding with CO
F. Tonolo, E. Quintas-Sánchez, A. Batista-Planas +2
This work spotlights the Statistical Adiabatic Channel Model as an efficient and accurate method for deriving low temperature (de)-excitation rate coefficients for collisions induc…
High-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy and ASAP Analysis of Cyclopentadiene: The Vibrational Modes below 860 cm and the Mode at 961 cm
Luis Bonah, Marie-Aline Martin-Drumel, Olivier Pirali +9
The spectroscopic fingerprints of vibrationally excited states of astronomical molecules are interesting for multiple reasons. They are excellent temperature probes of the correspo…
Collisional Excitation in Space: Recent Advances and Future Challenges in the JWST Era
Francesca Tonolo
This perspective offers a viewpoint on how the challenges of molecular scattering investigations of astrophysical interest have evolved in recent years. Computational progress has…
Collisional excitation of HCN by CO to refine the modeling of cometary comae
Francesca Tonolo, Ernesto Quintas-Sánchez, Adrian Batista-Planas +2
We present the first dataset of collisional (de)-excitation rate coefficients of HCN induced by CO, one of the main perturbing gases in cometary atmospheres. The dataset spans the…
Ab initio Calculations for Astrochemistry
Francesca Tonolo, Silvia Alessandrini
Computational chemistry plays a relevant role in many astrochemical research fields, either by complementing experimental measurements or by deriving parameters difficult to be rep…
Collisional excitation of PO by -H
F. Tonolo, L. Bizzocchi, V. M. Rivilla +3
We report the derivation of rate coefficients for the rotational (de-)excitation of PO induced by collisions with H. The calculations were performed on a four-dimensional p…
Hyperfine resolved rate coefficients of HC17O+ with H2 (j = 0)
Francesca Tonolo, François Lique, Mattia Melosso +2
The formyl cation (HCO+) is one of the most abundant ions in molecular clouds and plays a major role in the interstellar chemistry. For this reason, accurate collisional rate coeff…
Precursors of the RNA-world in space: Detection of ()-1,2-ethenediol in the interstellar medium, a key intermediate in sugar formation
Víctor M. Rivilla, Laura Colzi, Izaskun Jiménez-Serra +20
We present the first detection of ()-1,2-ethenediol, (CHOH), the enol form of glycolaldehyde, in the interstellar medium towards the G+0.693-0.027 molecular cloud located in…
An improved study of HCO+ and He system: interaction potential, collisional relaxation and pressure broadening
F. Tonolo, L. Bizzocchi, M. Melosso +4
In light of its ubiquitous presence in the interstellar gas, the chemistry and reactivity of the HCO+ ion requires special attention. The availability of up-to-date collisional dat…
The quest for a plausible formation route of formyl cyanide in the interstellar medium: a state-of-the-art quantum-chemical and kinetic approach
F. Tonolo, J. Lupi, C. Puzzarini +1
Interstellar complex organic molecules (iCOMs) are assumed to be mainly formed on dust-grain surfaces. However, neutral gas-phase reactions in the interstellar medium (ISM) can pla…