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Interactions and dynamics of metastable triplet-state helium dimer with Ne and Ar
Dibyendu Sardar, François Lique
Helium dimer in its metastable triplet electronic state, He, is a promising candidate for direct laser cooling and precision measurements. Interactions and collision…
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 excitation of cyclopentadiene by helium. A complete set of rate coefficients and astrophysical applications
Sándor Demes, François Lique, Marcelino Agúndez +1
Complex organic molecules, including large cyclic species, are prevalent in interstellar space and play a key role in various astrochemical processes. Cyclopentadiene (c-C5H6) is a…
Isomer-specific excitation of formic acid in collisions with helium atoms
Karina Sogomonyan, Anzhela Veselinova-Marinova, François Lique +1
An accurate estimation of the molecular abundances of isomers in the interstellar medium (ISM) is necessary to unravel the underlying chemistry and physics. After the recent detect…
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…
Carbon chain diversity in L1544 and IRAS 16293-2422: an astrochemical pathfinder study for the SKAO
Lisa Giani, Eleonora Bianchi, Anthony Remijan +12
Astrochemical observations have revealed a surprisingly high level of chemical complexity, including long carbon chains, in the earliest stages of Sun-like star formation. The orig…