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20092026
most citedMultilayer formation and evaporation of deuterated ices in prestellar and protostellar cores

145 citations · 1.3k across the 43 of their papers we have counts for

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45 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Corona Australis 151: an extremely young protostar

E. Redaelli, S. Spezzano, P. Caselli +9

Context. Prestellar cores are the birthplace of stars and planetary systems, but they are short-lived objects, since the initial stages of dense core evolution, collapse, and the f…

astro-ph.GA2026

MIAO-ALMA: Shocks and Protostellar Outflows in 70 m-dark clumps with 1 /

Shuting Lin, Siyi Feng, Junzhi Wang +16

To investigate the initial conditions of high-mass star-forming regions, we use SiO (2-1) emission to trace early shock-related kinematics toward sixteen 70 m-dark and massive c…

astro-ph.SR2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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/$^{…

astro-ph.GA2026

Tracing the sulfur depletion in starless and pre-stellar cores

L. Schöller, S. Spezzano, O. Sipilä +4

Sulfur is one of the most abundant elements in the Universe, yet the sulfur budget inferred from the observed sulfur-bearing molecules in dense cores is significantly lower than ex…

astro-ph.GA2026

Modeling the UV-photon irradiation of CS-bearing ices in the laboratory with the pyRate gas-grain astrochemical code. New insights into the missing sulfur problem

O. Sipilä, R. Martín-Doménech, W. Riedel +4

Observations indicate that the total abundance of S-bearing species in dense clouds is orders of magnitude lower than the cosmic sulfur abundance. Addressing this "missing sulfur p…

astro-ph.GA2026

Using astrochemical models to simulate reactivity experiments on cold surfaces

Valeriia Sokolova, Basile Husquinet, Stephan Diana +7

The development of molecular complexity during stellar and planetary formation owes much to the interaction of gas and dust. When the first astrochemical models including solid-sta…

astro-ph.GA2026

Deuterium fractionation and CO depletion in Barnard 5

Igor Petrashkevich, Anna Punanova, Paola Caselli +3

Deuterium fractionation provides a key diagnostic of the physical and chemical evolution of prestellar and protostellar cores, where it is strongly linked to CO depletion in cold,…

astro-ph.GA2025

High sensitivity molecular line observations towards the L1544 pre-stellar core challenge current models

J. Ferrer Asensio, S. S. Jensen, S. Spezzano +4

The increased sensitivity and spectral resolution of observed spectra towards the pre-stellar core L1544 are challenging the current physical and chemical models. With the aim of f…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

Cl+ and HCl+ in Reaction with H2 and Isotopologues: A Glance into H Abstraction and Indirect Exchange at Astrophysical Conditions

Miguel Jiménez-Redondo, Olli Sipilä, Robin Dahl +2

Astrochemical models of interstellar clouds, the sites of stars, and planet formation require information about spin-state chemistry to allow quantitative comparison with spectrosc…

astro-ph.GA2024

Fractionation in young cores: Direct determinations of nitrogen and carbon fractionation in HCN

S. S. Jensen, S. Spezzano, P. Caselli +4

We aim to determine the N/N and C/C ratios for HCN in six starless and prestellar cores and compare the results between the direct method using radiativ…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 16 cited

Combined model for , , and spin-state chemistry in molecular clouds

O. Sipilä, L. Colzi, E. Roueff +3

We present a new gas-grain chemical model for the combined isotopic fractionation of carbon and nitrogen in molecular clouds, in which the isotope chemistry of carbon and nitrogen…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 24 cited

Modelling Deuterated Isotopologues of Methanol toward the Pre-Stellar Core L1544

W. Riedel, O. Sipilä, E. Redaelli +4

Aims. We aim to improve a previous model for the prediction of column densities and deuterium fractions of non- and singly deuterated methanol. Thereby, we try to identify crucial…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 14 cited

Similar levels of deuteration in the pre-stellar core L1544 and the protostellar core HH211

K. Giers, S. Spezzano, P. Caselli +6

In the centre of pre-stellar cores, deuterium fractionation is enhanced due to the low temperatures and high densities. Therefore, the chemistry of deuterated molecules can be used…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

First detection of deuterated methylidyne (CD) in the interstellar medium

Arshia M. Jacob, Karl M. Menten, Friedrich Wyrowski +1

While the abundance of elemental deuterium is relatively low (D/H ~ a few 1E-5), orders of magnitude higher D/H abundance ratios have been found for many interstellar molecules, en…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 17 cited

A large (~1 pc) contracting envelope around the prestellar core L1544

E. Redaelli, A. Chacón-Tanarro, P. Caselli +4

Prestellar cores, the birthplace of Sun-like stars, form from the fragmentation of the filamentary structure that composes molecular clouds, from which they must inherit at least p…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 15 cited

Chemistry and dynamics of the prestellar core L1544

O. Sipilä, P. Caselli, E. Redaelli +1

We aim to quantify the effect of chemistry on the infall velocity in the prestellar core L1544. Previous observational studies have found evidence for double-peaked line profiles f…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 8 cited

A Survey of Deuterated Ammonia in the Cepheus Star-Forming Region L1251

Maria Galloway-Sprietsma, Yancy L. Shirley, James Di Francesco +4

Understanding the chemical processes during starless core and prestellar core evolution is an important step in understanding the initial stages of star and disk formation. This pr…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 16 cited

Deuteration of c-CH towards the pre-stellar core L1544

K. Giers, S. Spezzano, F. Alves +7

Context: In the centre of pre-stellar cores, the deuterium fractionation is enhanced due to the cold temperatures and high densities. Therefore, the chemistry of deuterated molecul…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 35 cited

An Interferometric View of H-MM1. I. Direct Observation of NH3 Depletion

Jaime E. Pineda, Jorma Harju, Paola Caselli +14

Spectral lines of ammonia, NH, are useful probes of the physical conditions in dense molecular cloud cores. In addition to advantages in spectroscopy, ammonia has also been sug…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 80 cited

The Central 1000 au of a Pre-stellar Core Revealed with ALMA. II. Almost Complete Freeze-out

Paola Caselli, Jaime E. Pineda, Olli Sipilä +18

Pre-stellar cores represent the initial conditions in the process of star and planet formation. Their low temperatures (10 K) allow the formation of thick icy dust mantles, whic…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 24 cited

A Revised Description of the Cosmic Ray-Induced Desorption of Interstellar Ices

O. Sipilä, K. Silsbee, P. Caselli

Non-thermal desorption of ices on interstellar grains is required to explain observations of molecules that are not synthesized efficiently in the gas phase in cold dense clouds. P…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 29 cited

The chemical structure of young high-mass star-forming clumps: (II) parsec-scale CO depletion and deuterium fraction of

S. Feng, D. Li, P. Caselli +19

The physical and chemical properties of cold and dense molecular clouds are key to understanding how stars form. Using the IRAM 30 m and NRO 45 m telescopes, we carried out a Multi…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 22 cited

First detection of NHD and ND in the interstellar medium

M. Melosso, L. Bizzocchi, O. Sipilä +7

Deuterium fractionation processes in the interstellar medium (ISM) have been shown to be highly efficient in the family of nitrogen hydrides. To date, observations were limited to…