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most citedDiscovery of MgS and NaS in the Interstellar Medium and tentative detection of CaO

1 citations · 1 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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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.IM2025

The Emergence of Prebiotic Chemistry in the ISM

Izaskun Jimenez-Serra, Giuliana Cosentino, Francisco Montenegro-Montes +22

Contrary to popular belief, the interstellar medium (ISM) is not empty; it is filled with atoms, dust particles, and molecules. Some of these molecules may have been the very build…

astro-ph.GA2025

The role of supernova remnants for the emergence of pre-biotic chemistry in molecular clouds

Giuliana Cosentino, Izaskun Jiménez-Serra, Laura Colzi +11

There is growing evidence that the Sun might have formed within a nebula impacted by at least one SNR. In this scenario, ejecta and shocks from SNRs may have provided the elements…

astro-ph.IM2025

Measuring metal sulfides in interstellar dust with PRIMA

Izaskun Jiménez-Serra, Shaoshan Zeng, Yao-Lun Yang +5

Sulfur is known to undergo severe depletion when moving from diffuse clouds to the denser regimes of the interstellar medium in molecular clouds. The form in which sulfur gets depl…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Discovery of MgS and NaS in the Interstellar Medium and tentative detection of CaO

M. Rey-Montejo, I. Jimenez-Serra, J. Martin-Pintado +12

We report the first detection of the metal-bearing molecules sodium sulfide (NaS) and magnesium sulfide (MgS) and the tentative detection of calcium monoxide (CaO) in the interstel…