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A Potential New Dimension of Astrophysical Aromatic Functionalization: Phosphaethynyl (CP) Derivatives
Reace H. J. Willis, Vincent J. Esposito, Thomas H. Speak +2
Quantum chemical computations outline a thermodynamically viable, low-temperature, gas-phase formation pathway for phosphaethynyl cyclopropenylidene (-CHCP), resulting from…
Automated Assignment and Prediction of Molecules in Astronomical Line Surveys Using Machine-Learning-Based Chemical Embeddings
Zachary T. P. Fried, Ryan A. Loomis, Jes K. Jørgensen +6
Modern radio telescopes generate vast amounts of observational data, offering valuable insights into the molecular composition of interstellar sources. Identifying the molecules wi…
Infrared Spectroscopy and Photochemistry of Aromatic Nitriles in Para-Hydrogen Matrices
Sam McGrath, Vincent J. Esposito, Linshan Zeng +6
Motivated by recent detections of several aromatic nitriles in Taurus Molecular Cloud-1, we report laboratory and theoretical investigations of the vibrational spectroscopy and pho…
Detection of the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Phenalene (CH) in the Very Low Luminosity Object (VeLLO) MC27/L1521F
Gabi Wenzel, Thomas H. Speak, Ci Xue +12
To date, 14 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) ranging in size from two to seven (including five- and six-membered) carbon rings have been detected in the starless dense core…
The impact of hydrogen atom tunneling on aromatic chemistry in TMC-1
Reace H. J. Willis, Thomas H. Speak, Alex N. Byrne +2
Hydrogen atom tunneling likely plays a substantial role in the gas-phase chemistry of astrochemical environments. To determine the potential effect that it has on the chemical mode…
Rotational Spectra and Search for Aromatic Imines: 9-Iminofluorene and Benzophenone imine
Huanyu Ren, D. Archie Stewart, Gabi Wenzel +4
Interstellar detections of several cyano derivatives of large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have now been achieved, enabled by accurate laboratory measurements of their m…
Discovery of the 7-ring PAH Cyanocoronene (CHCN) in GOTHAM Observations of TMC-1
Gabi Wenzel, Siyuan Gong, Ci Xue +18
We present the synthesis and laboratory rotational spectroscopy of the 7-ring polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) cyanocoronene (CHCN) using a laser-ablation assist…
The Missing Link of Sulfur Chemistry in TMC-1: The Detection of c-C3H2S from the GOTHAM Survey
Anthony J. Remijan, P. Bryan Changala, Ci Xue +13
We present the spectroscopic characterization of cyclopropenethione (c-C3H2S) in the laboratory and detect it in space using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) Observations of TMC-1: H…
Detections of interstellar 2-cyanopyrene and 4-cyanopyrene in TMC-1
Gabi Wenzel, Thomas H. Speak, P. Bryan Changala +19
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are among the most ubiquitous compounds in the universe, accounting for up to ~25% of all interstellar carbon. Since most unsubstituted PAHs…
On the origin of infrared bands attributed to tryptophan in Spitzer observations of IC 348
Aditya Dhariwal, Thomas H. Speak, Linshan Zeng +12
Infrared emission features toward interstellar gas of the IC 348 star cluster in Perseus have been recently proposed to originate from the amino acid tryptophan. The assignment was…